Operation Gratitude Care Package Weekend!

Showing posts with label navy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label navy. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Breaking Afghanistan News: Cheney Denies All Knowledge of Smitty!











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Notorious former Vice President Dick Cheney today disavowed any knowledge of Lt. Commander Smitty, late of Afghanistan and back at his nominal post at The Other McCain:
"WHAT THE F***?!  Who have you been talking to?
Where did you hear that s***?  You WILL tell me..."
Cheney denied reports that Smitty had in fact been part of a crucial action in the Afghan theatre, as part of an elite detachment from Seal Team Hat Size Six, the covert special operations unit repeatedly outed by principled leftwing bloggers as the Vice President's personal assassination squad, but since redeemed in the public eye of all decent Americans by President for Life Obama's willingness to let them assist Our Glorious Leader in his heroic take-down of Osama bin Laden.
Mothers, look away, for this is Death,
naked.
Lt. Commander Smith, seen below on the prow of his personal flagship, led a spirited naval action that comprehensively reduced the Taliban's naval capacity in the Afghan mountain districts.
No less distinguished a publication than "Soundings", the journal of the American Naval Institute, writes, "Not since the heroic transvestites of the Royal Navy drove the Kaiser's fleets from Lake Tanganyika during the First World War to give us a great Humphrey Bogart movie has a naval exploit had such an inexplicable impact."
Below, the gallant officer explains his triumph in his own inimitable words: 
When asked what such an indomitable warrior as this unstoppable killing engine might be doing back in the United States, Cheney merely replied coyly: "With an asset like Smitty, I imagine you wouldn't send him somewhere his skills weren't needed..."

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Special Operation Gratitude Event Sunday, June 5 for the USS RONALD REAGAN!




















Operation Gratitude will be holding a special packing session on Sunday, June 5, at the National Guard Armory on Victory and Louise, just west of Balboa Blvd.  The goal is to pack and ship one care package to every single man and woman aboard the USS Ronald Reagan on the anniversary of Reagan's passing. This means nearly 6,000 packages will have to be prepared in this one day to reach every sailor, Marine and aviator aboard ship.  Volunteers are welcome, as are tax-deductible donations of goods and money, especially money to meet rising postal costs.  Doors open 9 a.m.  Free lunch.


Thursday, November 11, 2010

A SAILOR IN AFGHANISTAN?


Smitty, the brains behind the operation at The Other McCain, has been reactivated for naval staff duty in Kabul, Afghanistan.

And here I thought Ron Paul was full of it with all that letter of marque and reprisal talk.

As someone who was told to come back when I was a few years younger on 9/12 (apparently the Army didn't need 50+ yr old infantry lieutenants), I wish Smitty all the best and envy him the hard year ahead.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Marines board and storm Somali Pirates!

Don't USN ships have yardarms anymore?


Operating from high speed launches, US Marines boarded a hijacked merchant ship to seize nine pirates, and rescue 11 trapped merchant sailors.  "Once we showed them the American flag, their disposition turned from scared, unsure of what was happening, to very happy," said Staff Sgt. Thomas Hartrick.  A quote not likely to be heard on ABC News anytime soon.

""The pirates were definitely overmatched," Vice Adm. Mark I. Fox , commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, said in a telephone interview.  Admiral Fox's previous posting was to the Pentagon Office of No Duh?












One of these things is not like the other...










One of these things just doesn't  belong...


HT: The Washington Post, which labors under the delusion the Marines have "commandos"...




Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Missile Defense Obama Style

Navy's Aegis Air/Missile Defense System Teetering on Brink of Failure...




According to Navy Times, the Aegis Air Defense  System aboard the USN's Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers is showing a steadily-increasing level of failures and unsatisfactory performance.

The principal culprit appears to be the Navy's byzantine procurement and supply system dedicated to supporting Aegis, a system so arcane and convoluted that ship commanders and weapon systems officers just cannot order necessary parts and support materials.

The result is that Aegis overall cannot perform as its advocates for the BMD role hope.

This problem is exacerbated by personnel drawdowns in the Fleets as the Navy struggles to meet budget targets.  Many ships' Aegis systems are being operated by sailors struggling in assignments one and even two grades above their rank and training.  Ironically, as the Navy reduces the number of sailors at the sharp end, the number of admirals to bust their chops is increasing.  While our young men and women at sea are working the wonders they always do, the dockside Decaturs of the "Potomac Fleet" are making it harder and harder for them to do their jobs.

So when Commander-in-Chief Obama promises to send Aegis ships to provide our allies with ballistic missile defense, it might behoove them not to examine that gift too closely.  Like most things this Administration champions, it looks good, it sounds good... but it doesn't work as advertised.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Obama's Secretary of the Navy to Name New Warship for Lying, Thieving, Corrupt, Slanderous Congressional Hack...

HT: Commander Salamander


Oh Hell No...

"The Navy’s 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will be named for Rep. John Murtha, the long-serving Pennsylvania Democrat who chaired the powerful House appropriations defense subcommittee before he died in February.

"According to a Navy memorandum obtained by Navy Times, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus notified Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead that he had selected “John P. Murtha” for the previously unnamed LPD 26. It’s the latest example of the Navy breaking a convention for naming its warships; the previous ships in the San Antonio class have been named for American cities."





Ray Mabus 


Secretary of the Navy
1000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350-1000


UPDATED: Anybody with a fax number for this POS, pass it on and I'll post it. 703-693-9545


Thanks!


President Passive-Aggressive Strikes Again!


For those of you with short memories...








Yeah, Marines won't mind serving aboard this ship...



Monday, November 9, 2009

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir. (6)


Obama's decisive lack of military leadership

If this can be confirmed, this will be upgraded to another "Fuck You Very Much, Mistah Commander In Chief. Sir." installment.

UPDATE: Evidence points to this story cropping up very quickly but from only one or at most two originators, with conflicting points of origin. More tellingly, the MilBlogs aren't buying it as authentic and I'm not not going to question their experienced judgment.


UPDATE II: The story seems right, so I'm retitling this thread.
HT: Theospark, in Links, below.

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