Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Lex, Seen this? Talk about airing dirty linen. You’d think they’d let the guy slink off into the night.
Cap’n,
This is a MUCH nicer picture than seeing a Tico-class cruiser coming out of the mist. Someone, somewhere within the bowels of NAVSEA needs a course on designing warships with graceful lines. A Tico-class is one butt-ugly ship!
CAPN,
Wudda never known you had such Shoe skills. First this image than rules of the road.
You must have an open copy of Duttons on your desk (from Canoe U. days).
What next? Maneuvering board solutions? Backwards penmanship on plexiglas status boards? Running splices? Monkey fists?
Hokey smokes!
V/r
-SJBill
…and a right smart image of one of our BMD-capable AEGIS ships too
And speaking of FDNF, anyone know what became of Live from the FDNF? Been MIA for a few months now…
- SJS
re: “A Tico-class is one butt-ugly ship!”
Form follows function. That makes any Aegis platform a beauty in my book. They’re the only surface combatant to tempt my airdale eyes since seeing a Reserve Gearing class in Tacoma as a lad. There’s just something about a twin 5″ mount…
Sured I lived my tron dream working on APS-125,138, & 143 radars. However, I confess when the Aegis came out I heard the siren call to sample forbidden blackshoe tron pleasures.
Fortunately, Daddy raised me right and I knew that the path to the house of a strange woman was the path to Sheol. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. No matter how appealing any Aegis class it is after all just another skimmer target destined for the City of Destruction.
Still though, I wonder why Capt Rogers waited so long to splash that airliner. ;^)
dw
More correctly, CW’s anchor is a’cockbill, though the Cap’n gets “A” for effort.
And I agree with SeniorD about the ‘Tico. Too much tophamper….
Blackeagle,
Of course form follows function. Aegis ships needs LOTS of room for SPY-1A/D. Problem is the ‘Tico class started life out as a Spruance class destroyer whereas the ORIGINAL cruiser design had far less tophamper. In this case, form followed funding first.
sort of like an F/A-18 with 2 seats and ECM pods under the wings in Oak Harbor?
SNO wouldn’t by any chance have been aboard would he? I remember some mention of hom getting a far east summer cruise.
Hom? Meant him, sorry.