Ferry caught up in a war game!
"Hoo-rah, Captain, it mus' be a hostile - the commie motherf.....r is flyin' a goddam red flag!"
"Huh. Gee, I dunno. Hell, jus' go ahead 'n waste him..... Anythin' that ugly deserves to be blown away."
"Huh. Gee, I dunno. Hell, jus' go ahead 'n waste him..... Anythin' that ugly deserves to be blown away."
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Is it from being around 'Mericans since your aide to Trenchard days?
USS Jimmy Carter is a Seawolf class SSN (SSN23). Carter was a nuclear engineer in the USN and the suggestion is that the USN took the opportunity to exploit this so that they wouldn't be forced to name a CVN after him (in the same way that they named a sub after Admiral Rickover to prevent elements of congress from foisting the name on them for a CVN).
Presumably USS Gerald R Ford will be unable to sail and launch aircraft at the same time...
Presumably USS Gerald R Ford will be unable to sail and launch aircraft at the same time...
I think Beagle is a Mexican myself.
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A boat much, much smaller almost sank the USS Cole. With the number of radical Muslims in the UK growing and out of control, the warning was a prudent one.
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A boat much, much smaller almost sank the USS Cole. With the number of radical Muslims in the UK growing and out of control, the warning was a prudent one.
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the full story... sorry chaps
Nato warship on the wrong wavelength gives Clyde ferry a warning
By Auslan Cramb
Last Updated: 2:10am BST 25/10/2006
A tiny passenger ferry was unwittingly caught up in a war games exercise when a US warship threatened to blow unidentified vessels out of the water.
The skipper of the 70-year-old MV Kenilworth received a sinister message broadcast on Channel 16, which is used for routine communications, as the ferry crossed the River Clyde.
The warship had already spoken to the ferry and requested it kept a 1,000-yard clearance. But the US radio operator then failed to switch back to the frequency designated for a Nato exercise.
As a result, the ferry heard the operator say: "Unidentified vessel approaching on my starboard side, please identify yourself. If you fail to do so, we will open fire on you with live ammunition".
The message was intended for Royal Marines who were "attacking" the warship in inflatable boats.
A source in Gourock, the ferry's home port, said the skipper radioed back saying "he was just a wee ferry".
He said: "If you have a battleship loaded with guns bearing down on you and threatening to shoot, it's quite scary."
The Royal Navy has since apologised for the error, which occurred on Monday as ships were leaving the Clyde for the two-week exercise, Operation Neptune Warrior.
It was not clear whether the USS Roosevelt, a destroyer bristling with surface-to-air missiles and anti-submarine torpedoes, or the USS Samuel B Roberts, a guided missile frigate, had issued the message.
They were both close to the ferry, which was carrying 12 passengers on the 10-minute crossing from Kilcreggan on the Rosneath peninsula to Gourock.
A Navy spokesman said: "There was no live ammunition involved and there was absolutely no danger of a ferry being blown out of the water. But I think the skipper has his after-dinner story sorted for the rest of his life."
Information appearing on telegraph.co.uk is the copyright of Telegraph
Note 1: "The warship had already spoken to the ferry and requested it kept a 1,000-yard clearance. But the US radio operator then failed to switch back to the frequency designated for a Nato exercise."
comment: accidental, not intentional
Note 2: "The message was intended for Royal Marines who were "attacking" the warship in inflatable boats."
comment: not meant for the ferry at all
So much for "those trigger-happy, war-mongering, arrogant Yankee" posts... oops, I forgot... reality means nothing to some people's nationalistic hatreds, does it?
By Auslan Cramb
Last Updated: 2:10am BST 25/10/2006
A tiny passenger ferry was unwittingly caught up in a war games exercise when a US warship threatened to blow unidentified vessels out of the water.
The skipper of the 70-year-old MV Kenilworth received a sinister message broadcast on Channel 16, which is used for routine communications, as the ferry crossed the River Clyde.
The warship had already spoken to the ferry and requested it kept a 1,000-yard clearance. But the US radio operator then failed to switch back to the frequency designated for a Nato exercise.
As a result, the ferry heard the operator say: "Unidentified vessel approaching on my starboard side, please identify yourself. If you fail to do so, we will open fire on you with live ammunition".
The message was intended for Royal Marines who were "attacking" the warship in inflatable boats.
A source in Gourock, the ferry's home port, said the skipper radioed back saying "he was just a wee ferry".
He said: "If you have a battleship loaded with guns bearing down on you and threatening to shoot, it's quite scary."
The Royal Navy has since apologised for the error, which occurred on Monday as ships were leaving the Clyde for the two-week exercise, Operation Neptune Warrior.
It was not clear whether the USS Roosevelt, a destroyer bristling with surface-to-air missiles and anti-submarine torpedoes, or the USS Samuel B Roberts, a guided missile frigate, had issued the message.
They were both close to the ferry, which was carrying 12 passengers on the 10-minute crossing from Kilcreggan on the Rosneath peninsula to Gourock.
A Navy spokesman said: "There was no live ammunition involved and there was absolutely no danger of a ferry being blown out of the water. But I think the skipper has his after-dinner story sorted for the rest of his life."
Information appearing on telegraph.co.uk is the copyright of Telegraph
Note 1: "The warship had already spoken to the ferry and requested it kept a 1,000-yard clearance. But the US radio operator then failed to switch back to the frequency designated for a Nato exercise."
comment: accidental, not intentional
Note 2: "The message was intended for Royal Marines who were "attacking" the warship in inflatable boats."
comment: not meant for the ferry at all
So much for "those trigger-happy, war-mongering, arrogant Yankee" posts... oops, I forgot... reality means nothing to some people's nationalistic hatreds, does it?
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Green knight 121 -
You miss the point of the majority of posts in this thread entirely - it's called satire.
Do you honestly think that people believe it was done deliberately - it was a mistake, of course it was. It was a very easy mistake to make when in an exercise with a myriad of other things going on.
There was never any question of the warship firing on the ferry -again - it was an exercise.
Humour - satire and sarcasm is something that we Brits tend to do better than any other nation.
America and Britain - 2 nations divided by a common language!!
You miss the point of the majority of posts in this thread entirely - it's called satire.
Do you honestly think that people believe it was done deliberately - it was a mistake, of course it was. It was a very easy mistake to make when in an exercise with a myriad of other things going on.
There was never any question of the warship firing on the ferry -again - it was an exercise.
Humour - satire and sarcasm is something that we Brits tend to do better than any other nation.
America and Britain - 2 nations divided by a common language!!
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Radical Muslims are not wuite as rampant as the media make out. If you believed the Sun, telegraph, Daily Racsist and express you would think that us whitey's are massivley outnumbered by a snarling mass off veil wearing heebi-jeebi's.
There are seriously very few radicals in this country but unfortunatly they make good news fodder so you would think that there is a bang-vest wearing toerag on every street corner.
Things are starting to clamp down and I think we have seen the worst of the problems by mad mulla's living within our borders.
People are getting sick and tired of it and thus the very slow wheels in government are starting to turn.
I hope the people with their fingers on the trigger arent quite as paranoid and fearfull.
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US Skipper: Jees man those stone age jocks are shipping urine back and forth, do these people drink it?
US Sailor: No Sir I don't believe so, I didnt see one bottle of American beer being drunk whilst ashore.
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The Enterprise is scheduled to decommission in 2014-2015, to be replaced by CVN78. It has been proposed and agreed by the Senate to name it the USS Gerald R. Ford. 
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
There are seriously very few radicals in this country
Scotland on Sunday: MINISTERS fear they are losing the support of young British Muslim men in the war against terror, and have failed to keep them from the clutches of extremist groups......... The fresh focus on British-born extremism comes with officials warning that the threat is spiralling, with at least 30 plots and 1,500 suspected home-grown terrorists under surveillance by the security services.
It was also revealed last week that intelligence services believed Britain had become al- Qaeda's number-one target - and that it viewed the July 7 bombings as the start of a concerted campaign of attacks......
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