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Web Clavin Extraordinaire |
True heroism and self-sacrifice! ---------------------------- Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter" Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
He was 37 years old. And yes, that level of heroism is humbling. I hope it is verified and recognized in some significant way. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
I believe I saw a comment in one story that he was 3 months from retirement. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Needs a bigger boat |
I would love to see a DDG Gary Rehm. I'd definitely turn out the crew to man the rails for passing. MOO means NO! Be the comet! | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Whenever the doom-and-gloom crowd comes around here with the "The US military is finished!" cries, just remind them of this example. As I've said in other threads, there are still good men and women living the warrior ethos in today's military, despite the efforts of the leftists. This man was a real hero. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
Gut wrenching to read. May God give his family some peace knowing such a man is part of their family. Such courage. Also a prayer for those charged with closing the hatch. That would be hard to deal with. So much heartache and so unnecessary and avoidable. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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Charmingly unsophisticated |
Question: the pics I've seen, the damage looks way above the waterline. What am I missing when they're talking about flooded compartments? _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
A lot of the damage was also below the waterline. The bulbous bow of the container ship penetrated the hull of the destroyer during the collision. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Son of a son of a Sailor  |
How the hell do you still have this? We were shipmates. My parking pass was blue. I was a division LPO in Ops Department at the time. -------------------------------------------- Floridian by birth, Seminole by the grace of God | |||
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HA !!! Didn't realize I still had it until cleaning a box in the closet this spring. | |||
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A few days ago when I'd seen a photo of FC1 Rehm and read he was 3 months from retirement, I wondered how many Chief's boards had read his package and passed him by. God needed Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr elsewhere. Rest in peace shipmate. You stood the watch :SALUTE: | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
It's indeed a small world, Hobbs, I was on the USS Bainbridge from 1984-89. I left the service in July of 1989, FC1(SW). Rehm sounds like the best of the best probably non-PC FC1, fair winds and following seas, chief! __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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Wow. Stoic-one. I was an NTDS display tech, DS3/2(SW). Work bench just below CIC by the 48 radar equipment room. You were onboard when we positioned ourselves between Libya and the JFK Jan 4, 1989 and JFK's F14s shot down two Libya MiG-23 Floggers. I've never seen it reported, but we also held small craft coming towards us from the coast of Libya but the mud runners turned before coming over the horizon after the floggers dropped. ... and DIW in 30 foot seas in the med off Italy when two Greek sailors were in a mast down sailboat and we stopped to rescue. Saved one and SAR had an armlock on the other in the cargo nets but a wave struck and washed the other Greek sailor away. Good to see shipmates here again. | |||
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War Damn Eagle! |
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Sounds like the JFK didn't improve with age... in 99-00 we were always dragging a couple screws, bathing / drinking water that smelled like JP5, and down to 1-2 working cats. On workups we were DIW a handful of times... one time all the power went out for a minute... Needless to say we weren't surprised when she couldn't rise quickly to the 9-11 challenge. Makes one appreciate a newer CVN though.  Cold A/C, hot water, plenty of gas. | |||
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... but she did rise for a last shinning moment RHINOWSO. Last deployment (2004) was in support of the Marine's campaign in Fallujah. Launch and recover we did for months, without incident. That said, it took everything out of the cats ... again. After deployment, we met those Marines for Fleet Week New York in 2005. Was great to see them home. JFK and the towers taken about 1999 I think ... late 90's anyway  | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yeah, the old girl finally got it done - we just caught it at a bad time, right after it came off 'reserve' and apparently got screwed in the Philly shipyards. After deployment we sent some guys up for fleet week in 2000 before we chopped to a nuke. They had a blast. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I would say the Navy Cross at a minimum. | |||
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| Freethinker |
Isn’t the Navy Cross a combat award? I am not familiar with Navy awards in general, but if the hero in this incident had been in the Army, I could see an award of the Soldier’s Medal (noncombat heroism), but doesn’t the Navy have anything similar? (Based on the Wikipedia article, that would be the Navy Medal, I believe.) ► 6.4/93.6 “It is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.” — Thucydides; quoted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars | |||
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Festina Lente |
highest non-combat Navy award would be the "Navy and Marine Corps Medal" - Navy version of the Soldier's or Airman's Medal. Which doesn't mean that they can't still name a ship after him... NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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