42 Replies to ““At this point it’s worth reviewing both ships armaments.””

  2. I clicked into the Twitter cesspit and found some Baghdad Bob blaming the cruise ship for deliberately ramming the “warship” and sinking it. Must be a reporter for the state sanctioned media out of Venezuela, but I didn’t really want to dig into it that deep.

  4. Wow. I thought Captain Crozier, former Commander of the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt, made the worst decision of a Navy Captain this year when he wrote that whining letter.

    But this tops that.

    If Crozier is a prime example of a US Navy Officer, then the Navy is in trouble.

    One of the US Navy’s finest moments was during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, sometimes called the Battle of Samar, you can find books and even a movie about it, it took guts because it was almost a suicide mission, but they were victorious. A short description from a book review:

    “In this naval version of “David versus Goliath,” author James D. Hornfischer masterfully brings to life the heroic actions of a handful of officers and sailors. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors is a fresh look at the men, ships and events that shaped one of the U.S. Navy’s finest hours, the monumental naval engagements of October 23-26, 1944, known collectively as the Battle of Leyte Gulf.”

    2. I thought Captain Crozier, former Commander of the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt, made the worst decision of a Navy Captain this year when he wrote that whining letter.

      The USN relieved him of command for, essentially, giving away a military secret. The fact that there were members of the crew who were sick could have given a potential enemy enough information for an attack.

      Not exactly “31-knot” Burke, was he?

      1. Indeed. It is astounding that he was a carrier Captain: giving away his operational capability, then asking to take out an entire carrier battle group! Just astounding.

    3. I suspect Captain Crozier was a VERY vocal supporter of creating an LGBTQqPu Navy. One who “fit” Obama’s “transformation” of our military into a useless blue-helmeted “rescue” squad.

      I thank the good captain for airing his own incompetence and insubordination for ALL to see … and thus provide a bomb-proof reason for relieving him from duty.

    4. The USS Roosevelt left San Diego late January and made port of call in Vietnam about March 1. Have read the infections happened after the visit, seems illogical to not cancel the visit as US would have to have known the risks. His direct officer was onboard the Roosevelt so clear communications were readily available. Would be neat to know the Captains opinion of the shore leave before I throw him under the bus.

  5. I lived in Massachusetts fo-evAH. Joe Kennedy( yes ) had a racket called Citizen Oil. A “non-profit, wink wink )He’d have ads with old ladies crying for heating oil, which he’d supply so they and the cat didn’t freeze. He paid himself $600,000 a year. Oh, his wife got 6 also, so $1.2 mil. Per year. Nice charity work if you can get it. The guys a saint too. Did I mention he’s a those Kennedies?
    Anyways, he got the oil from Hugo Chavez, now dead. Who stole it from the Venezuelan people. Maduro has been tighter. So no more free stolen oil. No more quid for pro.
    My then lefty Congressman, Delhunt loved his pot. He’s retired from Congress with a rare pot store license. So hes doing fine. He liked Chavez too. And going to Venezuela. And the pot, and the nude beaches( poor Venezuelans that had to bleach their eyes from the white whale ) and oddly young girls attracted to Congressman.
    All these lefty crap holes love and bribe them bigly lefty American pols.

  7. What was this ship doing out there anyways if it normally is in the Arctic? Maybe a bunch of rich people decided to self isolate on a ship?

    1. Did you miss this part?

      “…RCGS Resolute, a smallish cruise liner specialising in penguin-bothering,…”

      Penguin habitat is Antarctica. The ship was just passing by South America on its way there, or on its way back.

  8. Ramming a vessel built for travel in ice. Not much can be said about the smarts of that captain.

        1. The story behind that patter song was that W. H. Smith (yes, the bookseller) was appointed First Lord of the British Admiralty without having any naval experience. Gilbert and Sullivan, who were never shy about pillorying public figures in their operettas, seized the opportunity to poke fun at that. The result was that Smith earned the nickname of “Pinafore” Smith.

          G & S were, of course, careful about how they doled out their ridicule, doing so tastefully without being rude or offensive. Yet, the same people who were the butts of their jokes attended performances of their works and were amused by how they were portrayed on stage, considering it an honour to be publicly lampooned like that.

          1. Poor shipmates …landing in the water! Haha!

            Were they too busy drinking or looking for, perhaps … penguins?…Haha! (penguin bothering Ha!)

            When I was involved in the musical (I can’t even carry a tune)  “HMS Pinafore” in high school, I was part of the chorus. We sang …

             Ahoy, Ahoy:

            “We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship’s a beauty;
            We’re sober men and true, and attentive to our duty.”

            Watch “Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1 – We Shall Sail The Ocean Blue” on YouTube
            https://youtu.be/ipjK8yNMA30

            P.S. We were an all girl performance. Our ‘Captain’ was a tall classmate — had a lovely booming voice! When we heard her sing for the first time, we all knew,
            (wow,okay) this’ll be great!

            They kept me “in” out of pity!

          2. Were they too busy drinking or looking for, perhaps … penguins?…Haha! (penguin bothering Ha!)

            They couldn’t have been looking for Bloom Country‘s Opus. He accidentally ended up on a Greenpeace anti-whaling ship when he went south to find his mother.

            I can imagine the crew singing new lyrics to that bit from Pinafore:

            We sail the ocean blue, and we look for sea-borne squatters,
            We tried attacking one, now our ship is underwater.

            Methinks Maduro is not amused…..

          3. “We sail the ocean blue,
            and we look for sea-borne squatters,
            We tried attacking one,
            now our ship is underwater.”

            We stood to our guns all day,
            And now we have plenty of time to play.
            We shall look for new employment.
            For we must get some more enjoyment.

            Ahoy! ahoy! the balls whistle free.
            Ahoy! ahoy! o’er the bright blue sea,
            We’re sober men and true,
            We sail the ocean blue!

          4. You have to admit that this is a comedy of errors in which the jokes write themselves.

          5. Ha! Yes, and…

            I’ll just betcha,
            That Greta will get bettah,
            Even tho’ she couldn’t find Opus,
            Because at least he’s not a dopus.

    1. Speaking of which … I heard AOC was devastated to learn that are no Penguins left in the Arctic.

      Blames Trump.

  10. There were 2 tweets by Venezuelan nationals that stated they believed the navy wanted to take the Endeavour into port to rob the ship. It seems is has happened before.

    1. I really think the cruise ship’s company should paint a “kill” on the bow. (“Passengers can be assured that our ships are safe. They can resist collisions with icebergs and pirate frigates.”)

      You can’t make this stuff up if you tried.

  12. If you’re a sailor and your commanding officer decides to ram a structurally superior vessel. Put on a life jacket !
    Actually, if your ship’s captain is that stupid. You should always wear a life jacket.
    Likely, the Venezuela captain’s real motive was to raid the passenger liner for food !

  13. Canada has very similar coastal patrol vessels that don’t even have a 76mm gun. They have .50 cal machine guns. The WWII Bofors guns were removed, likely from embarrassment. Why they weren’t designed with a 105mm gun that could actually sink something is beyond stupid. Our destroyers are all gone and our frigates are at the end of their life. Add the 8 years of flailing by Harper to the 8 past and future years of stupidity by Turdeau and we will have 60,000 troops in offices in Ottawa and dories patrolling our coasts.

    1. There are more military staff stationed at “CFB Nortel” (ie HQ) in the Ottawa suburbs than there are actual deployible soldiers.

  14. RCGS = Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Can we claim a battle honour? Canadian vessels have only ever sunk a handful of ships. Mind you the HMCS Niobe waited off New York and arrested some German ships and forced the SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich to be interdicted by the US.

    1. It’s probably the first Canadian ship to sink anything since, maybe, the HMCS Haida.

    2. The HMCS Margaree did sink a Portuguese trawler off the Maritimes coast back in the mid 80’s during the cod war. It was a great victory.

  16. ..and Venezuela is the country with the world’s largest oil reserves.

    How do you go bankrupt with the world’s largest oil reserves?

    Does anyone realize how difficult that is?

    This should be a Harvard Business School case study. I went there from 1978 to 1980 and we had to read how brilliant government
    planning in Japan was for weeks on end.

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