TheLastColdBeer
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Happy Birthday & have a great day!
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That's tragic, wish him the best, and hope treatment becomes available.
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Happy Birthday OSIRIS, have a great day!
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Brother left yesterday from here (Illinois) for San Antonio. He stopped in Ardmore for the night, but says he wonders if that was a good idea. Hope he gets through Dallas-Fort Worth ok. Friends from Dallas are still here, and they're staying put. Freezing rain, and the roads kinda suck. The Tornado damage looks awful, this will be a Christmas to remember for a lot of families.
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Happy Birthday belle, have a splendid day!
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Happy Birthday Frenchi, have a great day!
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Merry Christmas Hexe & Bakke!
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Merry Christmas from DeathWave_UK and Noddy!
TheLastColdBeer replied to PainKiller's topic in General Discussion
Merry Christmas m8, tell your mom & slacker dad Merry Christmas from LCB! -
Happy Birthday & Merry Christmas Stamink!
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Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
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Happy Birthday DJ, and have a Merry Christmas!
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Well Johnnnnny! Happy Birthday, have a great day, even if you won't remember anything you said or did.
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Happy Birthday Gatorgirl!
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Dec 7th - A date which will live in infamy
TheLastColdBeer replied to loaderXI's topic in General Discussion
Yep, and the first thing the history books are going to ask is what kind of a lame brain commander would tell the world exactly when he's pulling out of disputed territory, and that he's not going to do anything to shore up a fledgling government that was just installed. Sweet pickings for free, any takers? Welcome to the birth of ISIS. Who was it that said "Evil needs only that good should do nothing to succeed"? -
Dec 7th - A date which will live in infamy
TheLastColdBeer replied to loaderXI's topic in General Discussion
Yes, if you read accounts written by the German officers and soldiers that experienced Barbarossa, you'll get the idea. They had no concept of the Russian vastness. No idea of the distances, and the primitive conditions that existed on the steppes. They were wholly unprepared for the logistic nightmare of supplying armies in the field a thousand miles from supply sources, without road or rail. And then it snowed... -
Dec 7th - A date which will live in infamy
TheLastColdBeer replied to loaderXI's topic in General Discussion
Here you go SOB, speaking of the Atlantic Wall. I knew HMS Ramilles was one of the bombardment ships, but never knew the extent of her gunfire support until I read this article. Damn, over a thousand 15" shells lobbed into Normandy, must have been hell on the receiving end. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/00/a1125000.shtml -
Happy Birthday Ted! Have a great day! Oh, and thanks for killing poor LemonGrease so many times.
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LOL, didn't know about the Royal Navy connection to this thing, that wasn't mentioned in Proceedings. The only part I got to read was the USN adventure & ALL the excuses why we just had to have this ship. Makes sense they never talked to anyone who might have to take it to sea what they thought....or wanted. The final straw for me was the "reasoning" that we needed a close in combat ship that could overtake fast inflatables. Huh? Doesn't Ma Deuce beat a rubber dingy by about 2700 fps? All you need is someone in charge to give the order to open fire, problem solved.
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Thanks Boss, I'll be there, off & on during the weekend.
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This is what the LCS was conceived originally, coast guard cutter sized ship, cheap to build, low crew size requirements, and a modular weapons package that could be installed at will, depending on what mission requirements were. This is what the poor thing morphed into. Haven't kept up with the latest developments, but I'm sure the arguments haven't ceased since USS Freedom was on the ways. Too many cooks stirring the pot, @ taxpayers expense.
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Happy Birthday Joe, have a great day!
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COP21 just finished up. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374 Now all 192 delegates, and the 40,000 hangers on can leave their catered parties, hop into their armored limo's and SUV's and head to the airport. Most, like president Obama, will be flying home on 5 gallon/mile Boeings & Airbuses. Job well done. Be a little easier to accept if our politicians had just met on conference calls, rather than burn through 30,000 gallons of Jet A kerosene per aircraft, for every delegate. But hey, ya gotta crack some eggs to make your omelet, right?
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Happy Birthday X-Ray! Have a good day!
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Yes @@Bosun, another answer to a question nobody asked. The LCS kept changing missions and specifications until they had a fifty knot catamaran without a balanced weapons package, no chance of surviving even modest damage, no endurance due to fantastic fuel consumption, and a boat with no blue water ability. Would take three of them to cover the capabilities of one FFG. An agressor wouldn't even have to attack the LCS, just sink the tanker hanging around to keep their fuel tanks topped off.
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Looks just plain Fugly to me. Chalk it up there with the B2, F35, Littoral Combat Ship, and the Land Warrior System. Does the Department of Defense have any idea what value for your money means? Might as well admit that all congressmen are members of the board of Raytheon. Makes as much sense as sending a $2 million dollar Tomahawk to take out a truck worth $5 grand. Also brings into question our intelligence agencies. They claim it takes 16 agents to watch one suspect. At that rate we don't need any enemies, we've beaten ourselves.
