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Ex Neptune Warrior takes a turn for the surreal!
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USN declare war on Clyde ferry
- Thread starterCarpeDiem
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SILVER_FOX
War Hero
I hear they're going to produce a brand new medal to recognise the engagement. Everyone present onboard will get two, those within 10000 miles will have to settle for just one.
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dubaipusser
Lantern Swinger
SILVER_FOX said:
I am probably 10,004 miles away - any chance of submitting a representation so I can get the medal?
SILVER_FOX
War Hero
You should know by now that you never dip out, you just didn't dip in this time. :lol:
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dubaipusser
Lantern Swinger
Of course, the 10,004 miles was only if I went from the Clyde to Dubai via the USA (which I assumed would be somewhere in the rules and would probably ensure that I got the US 'flying over a war zone' medal (unless they have now declared Ulster safe) plus the 'flying near to another war zone medal' (Iraq). If they allowed the distance to be a straight line from the Clyde then I would indeed dip in since I am a mere 3,633 miles away from the Quote "scene of the crime" Unquote (as Arlo Guthrie once said).
FlagWagger
GCM
RoofRat said:
With the well known US habit of being trigger happy, and with the discussion on T45 and Windows for Warships in another thread, I actually had the Vincennes in mind.
RoofRat said:
Usually leaving Faslane there is a Mod Police escort untill you get down the clyde . To warn off vessels from getting too close to warships.
The Ferry skipper should have been warned by the QHM aswell.
As for the VHF channel 16 voice communication I bet the whole of the clyde boating fraternity were listening in--its the emergency frequency !!
I wonder how they would have reacted to a sailing vessel --the rules of sailing vesels having priority to motorised ones for right of way
Pity the ferry skipper backed off ----------might have been an interesting
international incident :lol: :lol:
dondon
MIA
RoofRat said:
Ditto Roofrat , why the fxxk do we do everything with at least one arm tie'd behind our back , and of course the Human Rights Lawyers chaseing the blokes on the ground , pisses me off no end , can't fxxxxxxxg win can we , anyone out there , best of luck , don't think fxxxxxxxxg twice , slot them , :twisted:
Chronic-Malcontent
Badgeman
Cheese Lousie!.. He was being polite.. He would have been direct if he had been in US waters..
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SILVER_FOX
War Hero
The one thing I have learned since I started working closely with the Americans is that they set their rules for everyone else to follow whilst blatently ignoring the rules and requirements of other nations working around them. :evil:
They don't all do it but the majority have this really arrogant attitude which means that they push through blindly ignoring anything else. I would give examples but to do so would pinpoint my location and I could do without the extra flak.
SF
They don't all do it but the majority have this really arrogant attitude which means that they push through blindly ignoring anything else. I would give examples but to do so would pinpoint my location and I could do without the extra flak.
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