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Navy’s Priciest Carrier Ever Struggles to Get Jets On, Off Deck

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-BB1cBCBI

Not sure what was wrong with the old system. It just worked.

Like any new technology going back to sailing day warships, there are always kinks to work out.

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Italian Alpini with a 6000kgh cannon they have carried into the Alps. The gun is still there today and can be visited, albeit it is on top of a 3000 meter mountain.

[CentralTexasCrude]

A soldier assigned to the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old Guard” guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Dec. 14, 2020.

Truly one of the most gut wrenching national memorials worldwide. Established 100 year ago this year (Unknown soldier from WW1- 2 others in 1959 and 1984). Memorial guard 24/7/365. Copied by just about every country since. And amazingly, there will never ever be anyone added to it.

Thank you Mr. Peabody.

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In April 2007, U.S. Navy SEAL, Sr. Chief Mike Day was caught in a brutal firefight with three al-Qaeda insurgents after he was the first of his team to enter a room in a town near Fallujah, Iraq. The enemy fighters opened fire, hitting Day with 27 separate bullets. 11 of the shots were stopped by his body armor, but 16 penetrated his body and left him perilously wounded.

A grenade then exploded just 10 feet away from him, knocking him unconscious. According to Day, when he woke up roughly a minute later, he managed to kill two of the fighters with his pistol. When the fighting finally stopped, he miraculously got up and walked himself to a medical helicopter.

“People hear about my story and they can’t believe it. I was there and I can’t believe it,” Day said. “I got shot 27 times – 16 in the body and 11 times in my body armor. ”

“I was shot in both legs, both arms, my left thumb was almost amputated, I was shot in the abdomen and had a colostomy bag for a year, my right scapula was shattered, I was shot twice in the buttocks, once in the scrotum and my body armor was hit multiple times which caused fractured ribs and contusions on my lungs.”

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Replenishment at Sea, 20 January 2021

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[Animal]

how in the fuck did they have that helicopter tied down?

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how in the fuck did they have that helicopter tied down?

they strap they down. i had a marines take ride home in a storm on one of these. they didn't tie down the choppers and they all were gone when they came out in the am. lets just say there were more than on person who lost rank

[Animal]

fuck, you should see my haul truck driver chain and boomer a backhoe onto a lowboy trailer deck. And that's just to drive maybe 30 minutes to another jobsite on a clear spring day with no traffic. And a backhoe, new, is about a $100,000 piece of equipment.

I can't fucking imagine someone parking a military helicopter, that costs god only knows, on the deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean that isn't tied down.

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first....is never be caught oin a ship. second i strap down the garbage i haul less than a mile to the dumps. it stresses me out to see shit not properly tied down. my father was a long haul trucker. he engrained that shit into my head.

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November, 1944 outside Hurtgen Forest US 1st Army Celebrates 200,000th Nazi POW

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[megman]

That's a lot of chicken chow meow.

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HMS Medway visiting again.

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In January 2020, Medway embarked on her first overseas deployment, assigned to Atlantic Patrol Task (North) on long-term guardship duties in the Caribbean.[8] She made a stop for final supplies and fuel in Gibraltar in what was her first visit to the territory.[9] After arriving in the Caribbean, Medway joined Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ship RFA Argus to form a task group, offering nearby British Overseas Territories a range of support from disaster relief during the hurricane season to tackling all forms of illicit trafficking.[10] The deployment also coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and both ships were reported to be on standby to offer any support, if required.[11] The Governor of the British Virgin Islands subsequently requested the assistance of Medway in securing the territory's borders in an effort to control the spread of the virus in late September.[12] Mid-September also saw the involvement of Medway in a large counter-narcotics operation in conjunction with Argus, 47 Commando (Raiding Group) Royal Marines and the United States Coast Guard. The operation lead to the seizure of cocaine with a UK street value of £81 million, according to the National Crime Agency.[13] Currently HMS Medway is in Hamilton, Bermuda.