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2009-05-14 Africa Horn

Sailors, Coasties capture suspected pirates

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Posted by tu3031 2009-05-14 10:21|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

Posted by tu3031 2009-05-14 10:51|| 2009-05-14 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 They should have sank it.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-05-14 11:00|| 2009-05-14 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 They should have called the Russians to come and pick them up. There hasn't been a peep out of those 29 guys they captured a week or two ago.

Posted by gromky 2009-05-14 12:20|| 2009-05-14 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't all fishing boats carry RPGs for self defense?

You know - against the Great White Sharks?

Posted by Bobby 2009-05-14 12:22|| 2009-05-14 12:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Nah, they should have just helped it leak a little faster...

Posted by Seafarious 2009-05-14 12:29|| 2009-05-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Pull up alongside at full speed, drop a depth charge set at minimum setting, and head away. One stern trawler will form a new reef for the fishies.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-05-14 13:17|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-05-14 13:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't all fishing boats carry RPGs for self defense?

You know - against the Great White Sharks?

Come to think of it, if I were fishing off of Somalia, I'd be trying to carry something to defend myself from the sharks.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-05-14 13:20|| 2009-05-14 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 How did that happen? Anyway the comment was for this article.

Ya gotta love that photo caption: "Visit, board, search and sieze" - not like in Ding-Dong Avon Calling.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-05-14 13:39|| 2009-05-14 13:39|| Front Page Top

#9 drop a depth charge set at minimum setting

Sure - from one of our four-stack destroyers.

Sheesh.

Posted by Pappy 2009-05-14 14:36|| 2009-05-14 14:36|| Front Page Top

#10 ...a rocket-propelled grenade and launcher..

Obviously purchased at the gun show in Austin. Cause that's what the Donks say. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-14 14:42|| 2009-05-14 14:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Sure - from one of our four-stack destroyers.

Well I've been trying to tell you for weeks in our various arguments that we're dreadfully short on four-stack destroyers. Why is it everyone and their cousin in the third world has decent Wilkes class knockoffs but we don't? Why does Chad's shipbuilding procurement system work and ours doesn't?

Obviously purchased at the gun show in Austin. Cause that's what the Donks say. /sarc off

Typical, everyone wants to deny us the simple small arms we need to Keep Austin Weird.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-05-14 15:48|| 2009-05-14 15:48|| Front Page Top

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