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
Oh, that’s too funny. I’ll send that to my mom to show my Grama. Grampa was a Sea Bee during WWII. She’ll get a kick out of it.
That would be “Mud Alley” at the Northern Training Area in Okinawa… It’s on the last part of the jungle course. They’ll clean those guys off with a firehose when they get to the finish line at the Base Camp…
Gawd… The number of units I took through there when I was instructing up there…
On the nose-bumping: Lex, you do know that yer going to hell, right?
On the fuelling: I wonder if the Russki navy is a dry one, as ours has been for way too long.
God Damn you, Josephus Daniels!
Anybody ever see the CB’s build anything? Nah, me either.
We had a Russian destroyer (Sovremenny (sp?) DDG, I think) as a plane guard on our early ’94 Persian Gulf cruise. Got pictures somewhere. We even exchanged JO SWOs for crossdeck training.
IIRC, they were a “wet” navy.
Sorry, I was on the INDY at the time…
From the looks of the picture(s), there was no fuel passed, just a phone & distance line. This makes sense, ’cause DDGs aren’t equipped to deliver fuel, and I doubt we or they would have the fittings to make it work.
Definitely a coo pic, though, and a sign that things are changing. Hopefully it will last….
Looks like a Russian Helix on the horizon…
YS beat me to it, s I had the bad manners to sleep during the east coast time line…but….
There’s always the manually operated highline for things like pax or parts transfer between such vessels (hearing the wind whipped voice of the rig captain “LAY BACK ON THE HIGHLINE!” playing in my head right now).
and for the second “but”…destroyers can deliver fuel. Been there, done it myself.
Maybe we can start a-a refueling their Bears inside the ADIZ, too! It would make a great pic! ;-(
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One wonders what sort of fuel is being transferred. The Russians run on potato juice while ours run on coffee.
During the ’76 IO cruise on the Midway one morning we unrepped to the Turner Joy (yes, that Turner Joy) at which time the Krivak pulled into trail. Once the Turner Joy broke away the Krivak pulled up into unrep position just to show us they could “fly formation,” I guess before falling back to trail again. AI was actually briefing the Krivak in the planeguard position – he stayed there all day.
you squids need a ceremony to get a kiss when returning from deployment??
fer goodness sakes! it makes one wonder about the future viability of the species!
MajMike;
More than a kiss…it’s CATCH UP TIME! We have the modesty to not let the MSM film it right there at the arrival pier parking lot…ya know what I mean?
Ah, Casca, If you only knew. A little checking discloses there are now a wopping 21 Seabee battalions in 7 regiments. The old Mobs are now a division!
Maybe the Commander could report on the ‘bees glorious expansion, rather than the sad cutback in ships. Oh well, out of sight, out of mind.
You’ll all have egg on your faces when the Department of Defense gets replaced with the Department of Peace. And Adm. Shear* becomes Chief of Naval Operations because only he has the required nation – building experience to meet the new mission.
*https://portal.navfac.navy.mil/portal/page?_pageid=181,5436342&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
I’m with YS. It’s probably not a refueling op due to difficulty in matching up fittings, rigs, etc.
Having done several of these things with Eastern European nations it’s most likely a “light line” transfer (exchange a plaque for a bottle of vodka).
Cottus …. you mean like when the Department of War became the Department of Defense? New things under the sun and all that.
Looky here:
http://www.thepeacealliance.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Peace
But thanks for the heads up, The Owner’s Manual. I thought, incorrectly, Rep. Dennis Kucinich and his friends also intended to do away with the Dept. of Defense. Having two Depts. makes sense for Democrats. Double the pleasure, double the fun, spending – wise.