USS Cole recovery *PICS* totally amazing....

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: Bushwicktrini

Originally posted by: notfred
I toured a boat kinda like that in San Diego. The one I toured, though, opened up at both ends so that they could put smaller ships/boats completely inside it. It had a deck on top w/ helipads on it. I can't remember the name of it, but it was about 600 feet long and owned by the US Navy... and it had armed helicopters on it... It was cool.

Was it This cause that is what I was on when I did my tour.
USS AUSTIN LPD-4

When did you tour. My dad was CO of Duluth (after flying Rotors for 28 years).

 

[Ladies Man]

keyword

Clinton

why didn't we do anything when the WTC parking garage underneath the WTC blew up?

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Cool.

I like the Midi playing to...where have I heard that before?

Was it brave heart?

Cool except for the freakin music!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

No Irish blood in YOU I guess!

Nope, I am 100% English.

Funny thing, William Wallace wasn't Irish either...

That would make sense because he was fighting for Scotland...

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: MedicBob
Nice pictures and nice find.

Thanks. Credit my dad, who usually just sends me whatever email jokes are circulating at the moment. Don't know how he got this.

 

[HannibalX]

Damn thats cool!

 

[Bushwicktrini]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: Bushwicktrini

Originally posted by: notfred
I toured a boat kinda like that in San Diego. The one I toured, though, opened up at both ends so that they could put smaller ships/boats completely inside it. It had a deck on top w/ helipads on it. I can't remember the name of it, but it was about 600 feet long and owned by the US Navy... and it had armed helicopters on it... It was cool.

Was it This cause that is what I was on when I did my tour.
USS AUSTIN LPD-4

When did you tour. My dad was CO of Duluth (after flying Rotors for 28 years).

!994-1997 I did two med's and a botched cuban shiplift (we where to take some cubans back home from Panama but they flew back atleast I got to see the Superbowl in Cuba)

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: Yzzim
This is kinda OT, but why didn't we (the United States) go after al Queda attacked the USS Cole? I mean, sure, we shot a couple tomahawks at them but did Clinton think that was really going to stop them from attacking us again?

wow, forgot about that.

You'd think after two attacks from the same group of people you'd go after them :|:|:|

I'm really starting to think that Clinton was too afraid to do anything because it might make the economy hiccup a bit.

On the history channel they have a series of shows for the past week about Iraq. Tonight was about the CIA and Saddam, and all the different tactics the CIA could have/should have used to take Saddam out. A former CIA Case Officers who worked on the Saddam case said that with oil prices being $12/barrel, Clinton didn't want to take a chance at killing Saddam with a fear that oil prices might rise

 

[UNCjigga]

That's actually one of the smallest transport ships in existence. I watched this thing on TLC about how they used the biggest one in existence to transport the lower half of a HUGE oil rig into the Gulf of Mexico (ship had to outrun a hurricane to do it...not an easy task!!!)

 

[ElFenix]

cool

 

[jadinolf]

Thanks for the link. Most appreciated.

 

[Babbles]

Guess it would bite big time if they didn't get the Cole tied on tightly enough and hat it slip over the side.

 

[Dacalo]

cool music, i mean pic

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: jadinolf
Thanks for the link. Most appreciated.

You're welcome! Now I'm all way cool and stuff.

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
keyword

Clinton

why didn't we do anything when the WTC parking garage underneath the WTC blew up?

Alright you guys. I don't like Clinton any better than the next patriotic American, but......

From snopes.com

Claim: The Clinton administration failed to track down the perpetrators of several terrorist attacks against Americans.

Status: False.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: Yzzim

Originally posted by: Yzzim
This is kinda OT, but why didn't we (the United States) go after al Queda attacked the USS Cole? I mean, sure, we shot a couple tomahawks at them but did Clinton think that was really going to stop them from attacking us again?

wow, forgot about that.

You'd think after two attacks from the same group of people you'd go after them :|:|:|

I'm really starting to think that Clinton was too afraid to do anything because it might make the economy hiccup a bit.

On the history channel they have a series of shows for the past week about Iraq. Tonight was about the CIA and Saddam, and all the different tactics the CIA could have/should have used to take Saddam out. A former CIA Case Officers who worked on the Saddam case said that with oil prices being $12/barrel, Clinton didn't want to take a chance at killing Saddam with a fear that oil prices might rise

More blame Clinton crowd

It was in Oct 2000, a couple months before Bush took office. You are saying Clinton should have started a war in the last 2 months of his presidency that he wouldn't be able to finish? What stopped Bush from going after Al Qaeda for USS Cole? Did Bush do anything about terrorism before 9/11/01? If he did, we wouldn't be talking about that date.

 

[GroundedSailor]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Cool.

I like the Midi playing to...where have I heard that before?

Was it brave heart?

Cool except for the freakin music!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

No Irish blood in YOU I guess!

Sounds like Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms, but I could be wrong!

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
so what if that carrier ship has a problem...do they have a even bigger carrier ship?

You mean they have carrier carriers ?

 

[Nemesis77]

Whoa :Q! That's cool ! I didn't even know there were ships like that.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
so what if that carrier ship has a problem...do they have a even bigger carrier ship?

You mean they have carrier carriers ?

LOL!

Whoa :Q!

seriously! woa dude!

 

[DaFinn]

Whoa :Q!

Yeah, think about it... Norwegians have an entire fleet of those things. They could just sneak in at night and STEAL the entire US navy!!! :Q

"Whatta H..., where's my Cruiser. I'm sure I parked it here!"

 

[tcsenter]

Wow that was cool, I didn't expect that 'square' thing sticking out of the water to be the freighter's bow!

And check out those gargantuan jack stands, I wonder if you can pick a pair of those up at Autozone? :Q

 

[Liviathan]

I think I saw something like this on PBS or TLC. The flooding takes a full day.

 

[911paramedic]

All I can say is, thank god for watertight doors.

 

[acidvoodoo]

lol,that flatbed ship doesn't look like it would last long in a storm

 

[Maetryx]

*bump* for the sunny side uppers.