By God would you look at that... FOXNews.com - U.S. Navy Unveils New High-Tech Ship Called USS Freedom That Can Fight Pirates - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News President/Messiah/King/Exulted Leader Obama is so damn good that in about 100 days he was able to request, design, commission and build this new class of Navy ship to go after the pirates. Damn, he's good.
Thank you, snaf. <blushing with embarassment> By the way, I was onboard when she was commissioned and I had the opportunity to operate with her off SOCAL just before she was decommissioned.
Desert Storm, January 29-February 1, 1991 The mere fact that they launched these attacks indicates they still have a lot of fight left in them. - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf The Battle of Khafji began on January 29, and ended on February 1, 1991, following a punishing 12 days of Allied air strikes in the first phase of Desert Storm. Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's elite Fifth Mechanized Division and Third Armored Division launched their only organized assault on Allied ground forces during the war, at the abandoned Saudi Arabian town of Al Khafji. The three-day ground conflict in and around Al Khafji involved some of the costliest firefights for American soldiers since the killing fields of Vietnam. Saudi and Qatari troops also suffered casualties. The main phase of the battle for Khafji lasted fewer than 48 hours. The battle Four days prior to the assault on Khafji, U.S. Air Force E-8 Joint STARS* detected a build-up of Iraq's forces deep behind Kuwait's border. Bunkers and a reinforced Iraq artillery were under construction, and by the 28th of January, Saddam's Third Armored Division (tanks) were observed closing the distance along the southern border of Saudi Arabia's Islamic holy land. Marines positioned just beyond the outskirts of Khafji waited in the cold darkness of January 29. A loud clanking was heard from a distance, as Soviet-built tanks emerged from the darkness. A convoy of Iraqi tanks approached with their cannons facing in the opposite direction an international signal of surrender. With fingers on triggers, marines and army special forces watched as Iraq's Third Armored Division suddenly swung their cannons forward and unleashed fire in their direction. Allied forces immediately retaliated, but the Iraqis gained an initial upper hand pushing the Allies back and taking control of Khafji. The battle continued as two soldiers (one female) from a U.S. transportation battalion went missing, and two six-man marine reconnaissance teams became trapped inside Khafji. Nevertheless, the teams inside the town directed in a barrage of fire from U.S. artillery and air support. The following morning, Iraqi forces were operating with only a few hundred troops inside Khafji. The relentless punishment of artillery and air attacks proved to be too much for Saddam's forces. With the offensive now about 24 hours old, and Allied forces pressing forward, Iraqi reinforcements made a push for Khafji under cover of darkness. Joint STARS detected the movement and pounded the approaching Iraqi army with liberating vengeance. Holy land retaken for a price By the morning of January 31, Iraq's entire offensive at Khafji had been shut down. However, the three-day battle had exacted the sacrifice of 25 U.S. personnel; Allied Arab losses totaled 10 killed and 32 wounded. Iraqi casualties were estimated at more than 2,000 killed, and some 400 of them were taken prisoner in the Khafji area during the battle. Battle of Khafji When the wolf growls at the gate send in the Marines! Semper Fi RoyalOrleans
Forget me not. Remember rockets red glare bombs bursting in air gave threw the night that our flag is still there. Our forefathers reminder of a price to be paid and responsibility to inherit the United States. Rockets red glare bombs bursting in air Words fallen on ears unwilling to hear. deaf no more we all know now the price of freedom the price of war. Freeborn children listen and see a new generation paying for you and me Don't be so blind or so deaf to the sights and sounds Americans have left, Let freedom scream in our ears and minds never forget those left behind. Freeborn children stand tall and see! does the banner old glory yet wave for thee God bless America.
The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I spit on your flag ! Is that acceptable or like most of so called democracy's free speech and views are OK if they are mainstream and not off the norm! :eek ?????????????????????????????
BTW I still spit on your flag ! But that is my God given right ! I also spit on God ! sorry god ! Now that is worth debating ! ??????????
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Memorial DayMemorial Day is much more than a three-day weekend that marks the beginning of summer. To many people, especially the nation's thousands of combat veterans, this day, which has a history stretching back all the way to the Civil War, is an important reminder of those who died in the service of their country.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian. I STRONGLY approve and endorse this and I was testing your resolve ! BTW this just might be a forum I want to post on ! I have been banned from far worse places!
Tis chopper's first forum and he has only just recently come alive on the interweb and he is exclusively for .........but I must admit your devious sleuthing has brought to the attention of BS that I personally am no virgin when it comes to strutting my booty on the forum catwalk!
It wasn't that hard to figure out. That's why I posted this... Uh, huh. [/quote] http://justbs.us/free-for-all/12273-verbal-masturbation-wez-style-26.html#post100948 a week and a half ago.
