"Kloudy via AviationKB.com" u33403@uwe wrote in message
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gatt wrote:
Hey, ain't funny. I was aboard the USS Kearsarge back around '62 when
the same thing happened on the hanger deck of the aircraft carrier

A close relative just completed a tour aboard the Oak Hill, which was
supporting Kearsarge in the Gulf earlier this year.

Recent sea story: (As always, take it for what it's worth, but two
separate
people told me about it.) Earlier this year they responded to a
freighter
hijacking and found out that the pirates had killed the crew. The Marines
of the MEU in the fleet were bored off their ass an itching for a fight
and
then somebody told them "The Navy is handling it."

That didn't go over well at all until a helicopter filled with SEALs
landed
on one of the ships at which point Jeremy said the Marines pretty much
stood
down. The SEALs prepped for a full assault of the ship and launched in
zodiac(s). The hijackers holed up inside the hull and prepared for a
gunbattle...remember, all the crew had been murdered...and the SEALs drew
up
alongside, planted some charges around the hull, withdrew and sank the
whole
damn thing where it sat.

The other fellow--a maintenance type aboard a minesweeper in the same
fleet--just grinned and nodded his head. As a sailor apparently he's not
allowed to talk about that sort of thing, but basically alluded to the
idea
that you don't hear a fraction of what they're doing out there with regard
to Somali pirates; only the cases where the media finds out. In those
cases, the Navy has to keep mum and play nice.

The ol' Kearsarge is still out there getting some!

-c
I found it interesting how much maritime piracy occurs and how little we
hear
about it.
I only started looking at it when some friends got "mugged" aboard their
sailboat in the Carribean.
Some of these cats, particularly in Indonesian and some African coastal
waters, are pretty desperate and murder of entire crews is on the rise.
"The Outlaw Sea" was a pretty good read on the matter.

A friend was telling me about a friend of his who does a lot fishing in
panama there ship is fully alarmed if any one or anything touches the deck
why they sleep. Its bullet proof and has a holes for m16's. So if pirates
jump aboard there dead.
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