On Route to Hawaii, Two Warships Lost

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"This is a manoevre that's done in order to give the ship drivers practice. So that... if required, they could take a vessel under tow and they would be well practiced in how to do that," Pendergast said "Something went wrong in this case."
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I'd say.
 
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Perhaps this is just too simple of a way to look at it but....the ocean is really, really big....and ships are really, really small.......

 
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SLM said:
Perhaps this is just too simple of a way to look at it but....the ocean is really, really big....and ships are really, really small.......

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yeah but they had to maneuver in close to set up the tow...I'm thinking some poor novice messed himself over this one...or some instructor was stoned like that ship that ran aground...a little closer yes more, more, yup....oops
 
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lol...can you imagine the screaming, from the ship the noise would have been deafening and them trying stop the maneuver...that would have been an awesome Youtube...
 
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Sal said:
yeah too bad, it's all we have...cheer up though, I'm sure another strike will pop up again within months
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Just messing, Sal. I've always said that if you look at the history, the wars we've been in where Canada was active, we tend to look back on as "good" wars. It's the ones where Canada bows out, like Vietnam and Iraq, that we look back on as "bad" wars.

There's a lesson in there for anybody bright enough to see it. Which basically lets out the American political class.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Just messing, Sal. I've always said that if you look at the history, the wars we've been in where Canada was active, we tend to look back on as "good" wars. It's the ones where Canada bows out, like Vietnam and Iraq, that we look back on as "bad" wars.

There's a lesson in there for anybody bright enough to see it. Which basically lets out the American political class.
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Just messing with ya too...couldn't let the little jab go, but it was just a wee poke.:p
 
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I'll give you a wee poke, wench!


 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Just messing, Sal. I've always said that if you look at the history, the wars we've been in where Canada was active, we tend to look back on as "good" wars. It's the ones where Canada bows out, like Vietnam and Iraq, that we look back on as "bad" wars.

There's a lesson in there for anybody bright enough to see it. Which basically lets out the American political class.
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Well, Canada is not quite like Nauru, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Panama......yet.
 
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