You know, I’d like to comment on the FT Hood incident, but I really can’t top the summation of the reasons why that Lex has done here.
I just hate saying I told you so.
But, here’s on story from the front lines. As they dropped Major Hasan, people in the room were apparently shouting “Two more! Two more!”
Officers on scene thought they meant there were two more shooters.
They meant to put two more bullets in the man.
gotta love Texas.
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Keeping the WTF serious today for FT Hood.
I hope this doesn’t go where I think it does.
But judging by the video of the Major in a convenience store, and the length of his shalwar kameez, I don’t think I’m wrong.
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Hooyah. MCPON’s favorite phrase.
Hooah. Army’s favorite phrase.
This critique is not a witch hunt. Submarine Force’s favorite phrase.
I kid. But here’s an interesting tidbit for you.
Rig that space for DIVE, MAGGOT!
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You know, I had the pleasure of attending a “tolling of the boats” ceremony once. It’s when submariners new and old gather and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. We toll the bell and announce every submarine ever lost, and the total lost with her. There’s a great deal of “All Hands Lost” announced because, as we all know, when it hits the fan you fight to get the boat to the surface or wear it as a peacoat.
The best part was hanging out afterwards with the WWII vets. Heroes all. It really puts things in perspective when your stories are about taking it in the face and standing vulcan death watches prepping for ORSE and theirs are about staying up for 3 days because they kept getting depth charged and “couldn’t shake the damn Japs.”
Yeah, you win. I’m going to hit the chocolate dog machine on the way to the shower now.
Sadly, as we transitioned over from diesel to nuclear power, I think something was lost in our traditions. We’ve kept some, let some others go that probably needed to, let others fade in the name of correctness. I think something is lost when you let go of traditions born of triumph through a shared struggle. You forget that the job your there to do is to gather intel on those who would do our nation harm, and blow them out of the water if need be.
The smokeboat guys never forgot that, but as we transitioned to nuclear power, I think we forgot them and what they’d done. For the nation, for the future of the submarine force, and for each other.
I stumbled across this great website with a ton of stories from the end of the diesel boat era.
It’s chock full of gems like this:
The forgotten lads of our peacetime, cold war diesel sub force… Who had silently endured the hardships of cramped service in outdated, neglected ships, finally faced the final insult… The awarding of the Nuclear Long Range Inconvenience Pin… A continuing unrecognized embarrassment and joke among wearers of the World War II Submarine Combat Patrol Pin and the wearers of the homemade, unauthorized, concocted diesel boat ’screw you’ DBF pin.
Ahhh yes, the DBF Pin…gotta love it.
You just don’t see stuff like that anymore.
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A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
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In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means tying the body of the convict to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after beheading.
You know, say what you want about “Draconian Justice”, I’ll bet the size of Saudi Arabia’s pedophile problem is pretty small….
(h/t The Cap’n)
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