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OU_Sooners75
9/29/2011, 11:11 PM
emo

Curly Bill
9/29/2011, 11:14 PM
I'm sure he will be able to explain how it's Bush's fault there are Iranian ships off our coasts, and he will be able to this seemlessly, while never missing a campaign stop.

soonercruiser
9/29/2011, 11:20 PM
It obvious to him!
You simply pull all our troops from across the globe, and place them at our own shores to defend us!

diverdog
9/30/2011, 04:46 AM
If they violate the 200 mile limit there could be problems. I guarantee you that there will be a fast attack sub stationed nearby. If they so much as twitch they will be rusting on the bottom of the ocean.

Lott's Bandana
9/30/2011, 08:24 AM
12 mile limit.

And there isn't any place within 12 miles of our East Coast where a submarine can operate.

TUSooner
9/30/2011, 08:56 AM
What's he supposed to do?
Sink foreign ships on the high seas just to appease idiotic internet posters?

sappstuf
9/30/2011, 09:11 AM
What's he supposed to do?
Sink foreign ships on the high seas just to appease idiotic internet posters?

OmSSVt7Mfkk

SoonerProphet
9/30/2011, 09:16 AM
So a few Kilo class diesel boats have people in a lather?

Lott's Bandana
9/30/2011, 09:24 AM
Those Kilos wouldn't make it out of the Persian Gulf.

I'm sure our Navy is quite interested in this development. The Iranians would give away more intelligence by doing this than 100 spies could gather in a decade.

Do they have at-sea replenishment? What are their anti-submarine tactics? What is their air defense capability?

I wouldn't be surprised if we haven't contacted them and offered to help fund the entire exercise.


Think "Belgrano".

Midtowner
9/30/2011, 10:33 AM
The Iranian Navy.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/11/12/pirates.attack.russia.britain/t1port.pirates.jpg

Fear it.

TUSooner
9/30/2011, 11:02 AM
Runner up:


*****
Think "Belgrano".

And the WINNER is!

The Iranian Navy.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/11/12/pirates.attack.russia.britain/t1port.pirates.jpg

Fear it.

:biggrin:

TUSooner
9/30/2011, 11:04 AM
The crew are secretly hoping for a port call in Miami or New Orleans.

Lott's Bandana
9/30/2011, 11:10 AM
The Iranian Navy.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/africa/11/12/pirates.attack.russia.britain/t1port.pirates.jpg

Fear it.


So much to like about that post.

The smuggling that goes on between Iran and other Middle East countries is quite a big business.

When on station in the Straits of Hormuz, I'd see these bobbing heads through the periscope while sonar was reporting high-speed screws. Turbaned men on center-console Boston Whalers racing from Iran to the UAE and back, smuggling who knows what.

Often they would get so close I'd have to lower the periscope to keep them from impaling themselves on the optics.


Excitement in what was usually quite a boring time, monitoring the Iranian Navy...which chooses to spend almost all of its time in port.

OU_Sooners75
9/30/2011, 02:32 PM
Wow lotts...didnt know you were a submariner.

Have an uncle that is a submariner and has been for going on 30 years. E-9.

Last I knew he was stationed at St. Marys, Georgia (or at least lived there, not sure if there is a Naval Base in St. Marys).

Lott's Bandana
9/30/2011, 02:56 PM
Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base

I operated out of there for 4 years. There's a good chance I know your uncle as the Bubblehead community is rather small.

OU_Sooners75
9/30/2011, 03:20 PM
Peemed ya.

Knowing what little I do know of the military, you probably do know him since he is an E-9 (or at least that is what my cousin, his daughter, tells me). She tells me he cannot go up in rank, but can in rate...so I am taking that as he is an E-9.

AlboSooner
10/3/2011, 11:04 AM
so you're saying we should invade iran?

CrimsonCream
10/3/2011, 04:06 PM
I'm sure he will be able to explain how it's Bush's fault there are Iranian ships off our coasts, and he will be able to this seemlessly, while never missing a campaign stop.

Pretty much sums it up.