Comments on: Hearts of oak

By: Therapist1

Therapist1 — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:12:50 +0000

What a sad state of affairs. A mere one hundred years ago and the sea was theirs.

Good point Skippy and Mike.

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:34:06 +0000

What scares me is that the U.S. Navy isn’t all that much better off. Goldwater-Nichols has got to go….it’s strangling us.

By: Mario Mirarchi

Mario Mirarchi — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:49:27 +0000

Help our Brit friends:

http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/

By: John

John — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:00:29 +0000

What Skippy said!

I fear the RN has yet again served as our model with their latest “accomplishment”, at least for the Congresscritters who slight national defense while spending lavishly on fluffy social programs to get themselves reelected.

The “surrender at all costs” idiots like Reid and Pelosi will never allow us to recover, and if her Inevitableness seizes the office she covets (but is so woefully unprepared for) we are doomed.

Hearts of oak, indeed, but they don’t float without a boat.

By: Chris Parkes

Chris Parkes — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:33:27 +0000

Don’t forget the steam catapult.

By: Pingjockey

Pingjockey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:57:59 +0000

Indeed the overall lowering of the accepted level of experience of our total force with eventually result in a lesson learned in blood (as they all are). Someone will be fired, whomever the lucky ceasear of the day is and then the champion will appear on the scene to reverse our manning woes at the expense of some other program. I for one cant wait for the operational commander to tie a ship to the pier and use the manpower to augment his Squadron. That would take unheard of balls. And would be a career ender most likely.