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Offline nopoop

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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2003, 10:45:00 PM »
Link no worky.
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« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2003, 12:01:22 AM »
Nice shots.Amazing what they can do.Sink a ship to save another.
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« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2003, 03:59:47 AM »
Anyone know that music?  I recognize it but can't put my finger on it; it's driving me nuts.  

Cool pics.

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« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2003, 04:32:36 AM »
Music from Braveheart i think
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« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2003, 05:17:15 AM »
I think they used the same ship with that Royal Navy frigate that was beached, last year.
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« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2003, 09:43:58 AM »
Pretty slick the way they do that.  The Braveheart MIDI was a little much though.

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« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2003, 11:06:00 AM »
USS Cole put out to sea on April 19, 2002 out of Ingalls Shipyard fully rehabilitated from the incident.

Here's the list of the men and women who were killed during this terrorist attack:

Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, 21, of Mechanicsville, Va.
Electronics Technician Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow, 35, of Morrisville, Pa.
Mess Management Specialist Seaman Lakeina Monique Francis, 19, of Woodleaf, N.C.
Information Systems Technician Seaman Timothy Lee Gauna, 21, of Rice, Texas
Signalman Seaman Cherone Louis Gunn, 22, of Rex, Ga.
Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, 19, of Norfolk, Va.
Engineman 2nd Class Marc Ian Nieto, 24, of Fond du Lac, Wis.
Electronics Warfare Technician 2nd Class Ronald Scott Owens, 24, of Vero Beach, Fla.
Seaman Lakiba Nicole Palmer, 22, of San Diego, Calif.
Engineman Fireman Joshua Langdon Parlett, 19, of Churchville, Md.
Fireman Patrick Howard Roy, 19, of Cornwall on Hudson, N.Y.
Electronics Warfare Technician 1st Class Kevin Shawn Rux, 30, of Portland, N.D.
Mess Management Specialist 3rd Class Ronchester Manangan Santiago, 22, Kingsville, Texas
Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, 32, of Ringgold, Va.
Fireman Gary Graham Swenchonis Jr., 26, Rockport, Texas
Ensign Andrew Triplett, 31, of Macon, Miss.
Seaman Craig Bryan Wibberley, 19, of Williamsport, Md.

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« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2003, 11:44:46 AM »
You can see by the pictures that they did build some kind of 'Shaped Charge' that was aimed at the ship.  You couldn't get that kind of hole with just a boat full of explosives.


    You really, really have to wait for good weather to get that across the Atlantic and into the Gulf of Mexico.  The freeboard dosen't look like much more than ten feet!

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« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2003, 12:10:52 PM »
Absolultly amazing that she didnt sink.

Offline Gunslinger

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« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2003, 02:31:07 PM »
HOLEY CRAP!  That's friggen amazing.

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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2003, 04:22:06 PM »
sourkraut: Here's the list of the men and women who were killed during this terrorist attack

 Does an attack on a military target by a group that had previously declared war on the US constitute a "terrorist attack" rather than a military assault, however unconventional?

 I would think that recognising the dead sailors as casualties of war for which they volunteered would mean honoring them more than classifying them as hapless victims of random act of violence that just happened to be there.
 Whatever PC point of view may be promoted by the media, I'd say there is a difference being killed while in uniform in the line of military duty and being killed while shopping or having a dinner.

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« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2003, 04:35:11 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2003, 04:46:39 PM »
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Originally posted by Dowding
I think they used the same ship with that Royal Navy frigate that was beached, last year.


HMS Nottingham, Type 42 Destroyer that hit a rock in the Tasman Sea east of Australia and came within a hairs breath of sinking. Same type of operation I believe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2349449.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2348839.stm

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« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2003, 04:48:54 PM »
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Originally posted by Pongo
Absolultly amazing that she didnt sink.


Not really, it could been alot worse damage and still floated, unless being crappy by the design, which I don't believe from todays destroyers.

The damage seems to be restricted in quite a small area and a destroyer should be able to deal with it.



Amazing pics though