Security guards? Those look like FN main-battle rifles, use them long before the sea drone gets into the danger close zone.

 

 

 

https://mynorthwest.com/3963002/wsp-driver-caught-impressive-dummy-evade-fines-hov-lanes/

 

https://mynorthwest.com/3963002/wsp-driver-caught-impressive-dummy-evade-fines-hov-lanes/
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You guys are still using HOV lanes? That is so Y2K.

Paid express lanes is where it's at in the 2020s.

 

From Erika Armstrong's LinkedIn page:

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Source.

 

 

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/suspected-chinese-rocket-debris-seen-094454719.html

Markus Schiller, a rocket expert and associate senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said the debris appeared to be the first-stage booster of the Long March 2C rocket, which uses a liquid propellant consisting of nitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH).

“This combination always creates these orange smoke trails. It’s extremely toxic and carcinogenic,” Schiller said. “Every living being that inhales that stuff will have a hard time in the near future,” he added.

 

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/suspected-chinese-rocket-debris-seen-094454719.html
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Jesus H Christ! ...

 

 

Nice story ... you sure you didn't mean to post it in the Good News thread instead?

 

Nice story ... you sure you didn't mean to post it in the Good News thread instead?

It's a toss-up. I was there too 79-80 and it was a mixed bag. Those rescued were very lucky. Most of what we saw were dead people in boats from the horrors of nature or evil people. The Navy guy also cried (as we did) for those that were lost.

We had at least two major rescues in our ready group but we sank (as a burial at sea) several more as hazards to navigation using gunships after a boat inspection revealed all were dead.

I wish I had pictures of our encounters but this was typical. Visual spot the boat (no radar returns on a wooden fishing Junk with a tiny motor)

Send out an inspection boat to check for seaworthiness. If it was OK, give them fuel, food and radio the position to the UN for possible later (it sucked to leave them again but those were the orders) pickup and deliver to camps in Thailand or Philippines. If their boat was trashed we had a designated boat people rescue ship in the ready group (we were the command ship with a real medical dept that only took the very sick and emergencies found).


All trashed junks were sunk and the people dropped off at camps.

 

 

Jesus H Christ! ...

Old Saying: Sadly, life is cheap in China but it's not free.

Falling from the Sky (Zhang Zanbo, 2009)

 

Wow .... that dude is 75!

 

Today in 1927 — U.S.S. Los Angeles does a “Handstand”


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Lieutenant T.G.W. “Tex” Settle was on the bridge as Officer Of the Deck preparing for the flight around 1500 hours when a cool southeast breeze came in from the ocean. The ship’s nose had been pointing westward. Instead of swinging around to face the new wind the tail began to rise. And RISE!