Kudos to the United States Navy!!

dlay said:
You are the typical rush limbaugh type, sir.....
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OK, KUDO'S to the SEALs........

And jeepers, what would it take to get somebody to tell me I'm a "typical Rush Limbaugh type" again since't Mr D crawled back into his dungheap??!!! It'd make my day :D

To all you liberal pinko NON-Limbaugh pantywaists all's ya gotta' do is PROVE THE RUSHMEISTER WRONG with some meaningful facts........ then you'se can badmouth him.





facts SUCK eh??

D used to carry this same limp stick....... and until this nation is bankrupt and a laughingstock to the world there will be liberal apologists voicing this insipid sentimental drivel.

NPR...... "why did those men need to die?" .....:eek:

Makes me angry right thar!

al
 
Navy Seals

jaybic said:
Oddly enough, none of the jarheads(myself included) ever got too mouthy when the SEALS were in the neighborhood. Calling a SEAL "seaman"(we used a different spelling) was a good way to end up with knots on your head.

Jamie
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Not surprising Jamie!
Marcus Luttrell, author of 'Lone Survivor', does an excellent job of describing the warrior caste mentality necessary to get through Seal training. A great true story read, if you haven't already. Marcus was the only survivor of a prolonged battle in the mountains of Afgahnistan with an overwhelming number of Taliban fighters. Every member of his team, including a rescue team were killed. His description of the firefight along with the blood and guts determination of his team summed up why Seal team washout rate is so high. It also describes the 'tenor' or spirit of one who chooses to go this route and reminds me of the Samurai code, as these noble individuals are truly from an ancient warrior caste and not to be trifled with.

Lou Baccino
 
chino69 said:
Not surprising Jamie!
Marcus Luttrell, author of 'Lone Survivor', does an excellent job of describing the warrior caste mentality necessary to get through Seal training. A great true story read, if you haven't already. Marcus was the only survivor of a prolonged battle in the mountains of Afgahnistan with an overwhelming number of Taliban fighters. Every member of his team, including a rescue team were killed. His description of the firefight along with the blood and guts determination of his team summed up why Seal team washout rate is so high. It also describes the 'tenor' or spirit of one who chooses to go this route and reminds me of the Samurai code, as these noble individuals are truly from an ancient warrior caste and not to be trifled with.

Lou Baccino
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I too highly recommend everyone read his book...I'm about to make my 2nd go round but it is heavy. He makes me proud to be a Texan & also sad that I never served my country. I truly believe if the men behind the sceens would step out of the way and let the warriors cut loose, it would be over much faster. The rules of engaugement have their hands tied. For those that serve & have served, a really big thanks from me and my family.

I'm sure some kept up with the story of those 4 very lucky scumbags who shot his lab who he named after his buddies that died by his side. I'm glad his head stayed cool...not so sure I would have been able to knowing how attached you can get to your hunting buddies.

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Just heard that the great expert on foreign affairs and policy the Rev Al Sharpton said that those poor Somalis were their "coast guard" just trying to protect Somalia's territorial waters or something equally ridiculous. The good Rev really does need to quit smoking that strange weed or otherwise change brands.

Unfortunately, that's the sort of total stupidity and silliness that seems to infect the left. My country, always wrong.
 
Marcus Luttrell's dog

Paul Fielder said:
I'm sure some kept up with the story of those 4 very lucky scumbags who shot his lab who he named after his buddies that died by his side. I'm glad his head stayed cool...not so sure I would have been able to knowing how attached you can get to your hunting buddies.

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Paul,
I saw the interview with Marcus on the Glen Beck show after his Lab pup 'Daisy' was shot and killed by those scumbags and it's good the local law enforcement were able to arrest them before they recieved what they really deserved. Luttrell chased them through four Texas counties before they were arrested. Navy Seals are a tight knit community who take care of their own. These were nothing more than white trash punks who never encountered someone willing to go the distance; they should consider themselves lucky. Anyone who saw the interview could sense that Luttrell would have been willing to dispense the justice these punks so richly deserved.

Lou Baccino
 
25 yards, that's amusement park shooting gallery range. Rolling lifeboat, rolling fantail. That takes some skill, but then there's a video online of an ex military sniper taking a deer at 1,590 metres. One shot.

Headshot at 25 yds on a moving target is "skilled" but it's not phenomenal. Fire control has the snipes talking to each other to synchronize.
 
Man, that's a hell of a shot, 25yds or not. Think about it, at night, through a little window, all three pirates had to be in view at the same time, the hostage had to out of the way, the three snipers had to fire at the exact same time. This is the kind of stuff you only see in the movies. Thanks, Douglas
 
Fire control

Many years ago I read about a fire control system that would allow several rifles to be fired at the same instant... for situations just like this.

It required all of them to be electronically linked. When the decision is made to fire, each sniper holds his trigger in the fired position when he in "on target", releases the trigger if he drifts "off target". None of the linked rifles will fire until all of their respective triggers are in the fired position... at that instance they all fire.

I do not know if a system like this is being used today.
 
I have already heard similar things also.

Things like the SEALS rifles were gyro-stabilized just like tank main guns are, to take the rolling of the ships and targets out of the firing equasion. I dont know that that is factual or not tho. I also read that while towing the pirates lifeboat, slowly "reeled them in" closer to the snipers laying on the fantail.

Hows that Bon Jovi song go? "Shot thru the head, and your to blame, next buncha pirates, should get the same".

Funny how stupid they are anyway. Now the pirates are mad and threatening to kill American and French citizens that they may capture while taking over ships and its all because of the "aggressive actions" we made while killing their thieving buddies. "Why, what ever do you mean? we have a right to hijack ships".

I think they actually believe they do have that right. I also forgot that us being infidels, probably gives them that right in the Koran. I know they are allowed to kill infidels but can they steal from them too? Anybody know?

Jamie

P.s. Didnt they used to keel-haul pirates. Bet getting keel-hauled by a destroyer would have a piracy-curing effect.
 
I just finished a novel by David Stone. In one part, Somali pirates try to take the wrong ship. They plan to kill everyone except the captain and mate. Instead, half of them are killed by a no-nonsense crew. The leader is nailed at wrists and ankles spread eagle to the deck of his own boat, then aimed to sea at full throttle. The remaining pirates are stripped and put in the #2 boat to go back as a lesson to others. I'd rather they'd been kneecapped or ankled with a bullet first, then stripped and set adrift with the engines destroyed. Pirates deserve whatever brutality someone can inflict on them.
 
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it dont matter how, just thank God and pass thr ammo/

GO NAVY SEALS
Semper fi

pickles
 
jackie,
my nephew is a seal, and is currently "at work". i'll have to ask how things are going....
they shoot sr25 and sr12's(308/223) some with nightvision, some with suppressors.
they have recently picked up new rifles....accuracy international's...very nice sniper rifle.
think thier long range is 300 win mag and 50mbg

the windows are probably thick plastic of some sort, but not likely bullet proof, and we do shoot some stout ammo.


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Outststanding work by all involved! Good shooting.

I was hoping to see one of the rifles that FOX reported on that the SEALs use that's accurate to 1" at a mile.:rolleyes:
 
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My only concern....

Is that so much information and detail is given out on this incident that the pirates will plan better next time and know what to watch for.

1. I wish the ship owners would seriously consider arming their ships with a 20mm Gattling gun with a professional gunner to man it.

2. Work out an international acknowledgment signal that if not acknowledged would result in immediate destruction of an approaching small vessel.

3. Swiftly bring to justice any captured pirates.

4. Just do it!!

virg
 
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