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2009-04-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Pics: Bainbridge and Boxer with the M Alabama Lifeboat

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Posted by Sherry 2009-04-16 14:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Be sure you click on the pics to enlarge them, then click again -- scroll around -- WOW

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2009-04-16 15:34|| 2009-04-16 15:34|| Front Page Top

#2 What's that dome behind the boat being lifted?
I thought it was a phalanx, bt I see no gun barrels, kinda low for a radome.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-16 16:32|| 2009-04-16 16:32|| Front Page Top

#3 RJ- I think that's the radome for the Sparrow close-in defense system. The Boxer should have two sets - fore and aft.

The Boxer should ALSO have about 1500 Marines on board...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-16 16:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-16 16:49|| Front Page Top

#4 How strange - pictures of ships that actually seem to be the ships named in the captions. Does the MSM know you can actually do that?

Posted by SteveS 2009-04-16 18:09|| 2009-04-16 18:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I am not disparaging by any means the crewmembers of the Boxer, but right now that name just doesn't sound reassuring.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-04-16 18:31|| 2009-04-16 18:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Think Saturday night fights, Deacon - that should help. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-16 18:55|| 2009-04-16 18:55|| Front Page Top

#7 In the clearing stands a Boxer,
and a fighter by his trade,
and he carries the reminder,
of every glove that cut him down,
or hurt him so he cried out,
In his anger and his rage,
I am leaving, I am leaving,
But the fighter stil remains

get the idea, Boxer is a respectable fighting ship name.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-16 20:55|| 2009-04-16 20:55|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope that isn't Barbara Boxer.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-04-16 21:18|| 2009-04-16 21:18|| Front Page Top

#9 The first "Boxer" was actually a British ship that we 'acquired' in 1813 during a 'contest' with the first USS Enterprise. (sorry, being too PC)

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