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Is it a US flagged ship?
NO?
Then it's not up to us to solve the problem, is it?
it is a us flagged ship with a home port of norfolk, va.
it is owned by a danish corp and operated by a us based subsidiary
MV Maersk Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
they had their chance to take those savages out when the captain made a break for it.
It's called target separation. When he has swimming for it, the crew of the destroyer had a chance to light up those scurvy dogs and send them straight to Davy Jones' locker in a hail of 50 cal machine gun shells
Why do you suppose they didn't. Were they unprepared? Did they not think to anticipate such an opportunity?
Or were our sailors and Marines aboard that destroyer ordered not to save a fellow American and to spare the lives of the criminals?
Guess where I stand.
Unless a special detail was assigned Marines do NOT serve aboard Destroyers normally.
I think we should give Obama a cutlass and a pair of speedos, drop him in the drink from a helicopter and watch him single-handedly defeat the pirates on prime time news.
We have the military capability to successfully rescue the captain.
We no longer have the national will to do so.
This is "change" you can believe in.
Pirates!
In the XXIst century and we're still dealing with pirates.
I'm sorry, I know a lot of you are outrged, but I honestly think this is sort of funny.
All those super duper weapons and a couple guys in dingey with a couple hundred bucks worth of automatic weapons have got the combined Navy's of the world on hold.
Am I the only person here who sees how ironic this all is?
Pirates!
In the XXIst century and we're still dealing with pirates.
I'm sorry, I know a lot of you are outrged, but I honestly think this is sort of funny.
All those super duper weapons and a couple guys in dingey with a couple hundred bucks worth of automatic weapons have got the combined Navy's of the world on hold.
Am I the only person here who sees how ironic this all is?
I can only imagine what was going through the Skipper's mind as he realized the Navy wasn't going to do anything to help him when he made his getaway attempt.they had their chance to take those savages out when the captain made a break for it.
It's called target separation. When he has swimming for it, the crew of the destroyer had a chance to light up those scurvy dogs and send them straight to Davy Jones' locker in a hail of 50 cal machine gun shells
Why do you suppose they didn't. Were they unprepared? Did they not think to anticipate such an opportunity?
Or were our sailors and Marines aboard that destroyer ordered not to save a fellow American and to spare the lives of the criminals?
Guess where I stand.
Way to hate on the Navy.I can only imagine what was going through the Skipper's mind as he realized the Navy wasn't going to do anything to help him when he made his getaway attempt.they had their chance to take those savages out when the captain made a break for it.
It's called target separation. When he has swimming for it, the crew of the destroyer had a chance to light up those scurvy dogs and send them straight to Davy Jones' locker in a hail of 50 cal machine gun shells
Why do you suppose they didn't. Were they unprepared? Did they not think to anticipate such an opportunity?
Or were our sailors and Marines aboard that destroyer ordered not to save a fellow American and to spare the lives of the criminals?
Guess where I stand.
So why not show your hand and vote one of the options above? Need more time to think about it?