This makes me proud! American Crew Regains Control of Hijacked Ship

[marshaul]

imported post

lol, sorry "metrocentric".

Still, I have never had anybody give me a "two-fingered handshake". I know that us cityboys are wimps, but maybe you'd like to come here to SF and try to commit an act of aggression against my person?

I wear Wranglers but I don't write cowboy poetry.... it's a little too sissy for my taste.

 

[Sonora Rebel]

imported post

Why don't you come down here 'n call one of these cowboys a sissy?

 

[marshaul]

imported post

Little defensive for such a tough guy, huh? :lol: Besides, I challenged you first.

I'd have to think you were a sissy to call you one. Your poetry on the other hand...

 

[buster81]

imported post

Sonora Rebel wrote:

It wouldn't necessarily take SEAL's. 'Soon as Phillips cleared the boat... no tellin' how many machine guns and rifles from various platformscould open up as soon as the 'Commence Firing' order was given. A couple of .50 cal MG's (MA-2's)'n 7.62 M-60's plus whatever else would turn that lifeboat into splinters within' seconds. This would be at night under searchlights.

I wasn't suggesting that SEAL's were required, but they were one the Bainbridge, so I was justassuming they were allowed to do their job.

 

[Alexcabbie]

imported post

Well hooray. The Captain is free and the bad guys are dead (except one, who is in cusstody) AND IT ONLY TOOK THE BETTER PART OF A WEEK TO DO IT.

Is it too much to hope that the Moslem pirate who was captured alive was force-fed a honeybaked Ham for the Easter holiday???

I am of course glad that this is over. But it SHOULD HAVE BEEN OVER TWO DAYS AGO, MISTER "PRESIDENT".

 

[Doug Huffman]

imported post

Alexcabbie wrote:

But it SHOULD HAVE BEEN OVER TWO DAYS AGO, MISTER "PRESIDENT".

+1

 

[wrightme]

imported post

Source of quote unknown.....

Sharpshooters firing from the fantail of a U.S. Navy destroyer killed three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain in a lifeboat, ending a five-day ordeal that unfolded amid a surge in piracy off Somalia’s coast. Richard Phillips, 53, captain of the Maersk Alabama, was untied, pulled from the lifeboat and brought unharmed aboard the USS Bainbridge, said Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

The Navy acted because Phillips’s life was threatened by pirates who were aiming weapons at him, Gourtney said. The on- scene commander “had seconds” to make a decision, he said. …The Bainbridge had the lifeboat under tow shortly after 7 p.m. local time, roughly an hour after sunset, according to Gortney and a Navy press release. The vessel was 25 to 30 meters away when special forces commandos opened fire, Gortney said. “We pay a lot for their training,” Gortney said of the snipers. “We got a good return on their investment tonight.”

 

[TheMrMitch]

imported post

The seals did it! Somali Pirates DEAD!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514719,00.html



Duh! Didn't see other post.:banghead::shock:

 

[Enoch Root]

imported post

The merchant ships in WWII began placing gun emplacements on some oftheir ships in 1941, to discourage the German Wolf Pack submariners from surface attacks.

You approach this vessel at your own risk.

 

[Tomahawk]

imported post

Sonora Rebel wrote:

Why don't you come down here 'n call one of these cowboys a sissy?

You're not an internet tough guy, are you?

 

[Sonora Rebel]

imported post

Tomahawk wrote:

Sonora Rebel wrote:

Why don't you come down here 'n call one of these cowboys a sissy?

You're not an internet tough guy, are you?

Tough enough Mr. Bad Hair day. I didn't start that crap with the San Fransicko keyboard kommando. 'You havin' a problem? 'Lotta bars in Crystal City 'n along the Columbia Pike where you can tell somebody who cares.

 

[demnogis]

imported post

I have a feeling the ILWU is having many discussions with Maersk and PMA right now...

 

[Sonora Rebel]

imported post

demnogis wrote:

I have a feeling the ILWU is having many discussions with Maersk and PMA right now...

No doubt. At least until US flagged merchant vessels in these 'pirate alleys' have Blackthorn (et al) security detachments until the crews themselves can 'Repel Boarders' with deadly force. That wouldn't take long. It's not rocket science. The crews have the incentive of NOT being taken prisoner for who knows how long... and under what circumstances/conditions. This should have already been done.

The pirate havens need culling as well... but that may take a bit.

 

[Alexcabbie]

imported post

A big objection has been about gunfire aboard tankers carryingg flammables like oil, gasoline, LPG etc. Seems like a valid concern to me, and you know how I hate to concede an inch to the surrender monkeys.

Nevertheless, a boat full of famine chow should have the "smoke 'em" lamp lit, and I am not talking ccigarettes either.

 

[Sonora Rebel]

imported post

US Navy tankers and USNS Tankers all had air defense and point defense guns. LPG is a dif'rint animal. AnRPG has an accurate range of50m... 'n can be 'lobbed' at twice that. The pirates use small boats... easly destroyed by heavy/light MG's at much longer range. The merchant ships are gonna have to clean up their act 'n not go on autopilot thru those areas. They're gonna have to post lookouts an quit hangin' stuff off the side that pirates can access the decks with.

Again... the havens have got to be destroyed...

 

[marshaul]

imported post

Sonora Rebel wrote:

Tomahawk wrote:

Sonora Rebel wrote:

Why don't you come down here 'n call one of these cowboys a sissy?

You're not an internet tough guy, are you?

Tough enough Mr. Bad Hair day.  I didn't start that crap with the San Fransicko keyboard kommando.  'You havin' a problem? 'Lotta bars in Crystal City 'n along the Columbia Pike where you can tell somebody who cares.

Well, I should have thought that my excessive use of emoticons would signify that my posts were entirely in jest.

I'm sorry that being teased upset you so. Please accept my apologies.

 

[HardChrome]

imported post

From http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/13/somalia.rescue.breakdown/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

"At one point, as uncomfortable as the pirates were, they exposed themselves where there was an opportunity," Gortney said.
He gave details of that "exposure" at a news conference Sunday. He said two of the pirates had their heads and shoulders exposed, while the third was visible in the boat's pilot house, through a window.
"The on-scene commander saw that one of the pirates still held that AK-47, was very, very concerned for the captain's life -- and he ordered the shots to be taken," Gortney said Monday.
Even with the small boat "moving up and down a couple of feet," the SEALs hit their targets. "Remarkable marksmanship," Gortney said.


Yeah, we need more gun control like this.

 

[HardChrome]

imported post

In all the excitement, neither did I.

 

[Tomahawk]

imported post

Sonora Rebel wrote:

Tomahawk wrote:

Sonora Rebel wrote:

Why don't you come down here 'n call one of these cowboys a sissy?

You're not an internet tough guy, are you?

Tough enough Mr. Bad Hair day. I didn't start that crap with the San Fransicko keyboard kommando. 'You havin' a problem? 'Lotta bars in Crystal City 'n along the Columbia Pike where you can tell somebody who cares.

:quirky

 

[marshaul]

imported post