Another bad day for the Navy, this time off Singapore

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Why does this remind me of the Carter years?
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First Shirt wrote:Why does this remind me of the Carter years?
Because history may not repeat, but it sure the hell rhymes.
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First Shirt wrote:Why does this remind me of the Carter years?
Bingo. Just what I was thinking.

More like the first year of Reagan though if we're lucky.
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"The Guncounter: More fun than a barrel of tattooed knife-fighting chain-smoking monkey butlers with drinking problems and excessive gambling debts!"

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;" Justice Story
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"pour encourager les autres"
"The Guncounter: More fun than a barrel of tattooed knife-fighting chain-smoking monkey butlers with drinking problems and excessive gambling debts!"

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;" Justice Story
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He'll probably retire into a cushy consulting gig with Ingalls or Bath.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/01/na ... s-say.html

Piss poor does not even begin to describe it.
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Check out what Kirk Lippold (former skipper of the USS Cole when it was attacked) has to say on the issue - and he has some VERY valid points (as usual)!! He's also on Facecrook (Facebook) under his real name. If you're prior military, ask to be his Friend - he's a straight-up guy, and if he would have been a Marine, I would have loved to work for the guy!!

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US Navy report:

https://news.usni.org/2017/11/01/uss-fi ... ion-report

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