Wednesday, 23 April, 2003

No open containers of C-4 allowed, that's a ticket Back in early days of my youth I was a sailor of the US Navy variety (but please don't take this post as a validation or support for any kind of neo-Mahan worldview). I tend to take for granted the idea that if you're ordering paint for US govt. property overseas - subtype: motorvessel - you'll be getting something in a dark grey. Not so; however, here's a story about the fact that they have brought in the Coast Guard to control the UM Quasar waterfront. Apparentely they must have asked themselves the question 'who do we have that is good at handling small boats, patroling coastlines and running interdictions?' Answer: Orange stripes on a white hull, and a bunch of sailors saying to themselves 'Hey, this doesn't look like Galveston, where the heck are we?' . This would please my brother-in-law a great deal. He's a former Coastie who addheres to the belief that the Coast Guard are innately better sailors than the Navy who wouldn't know a half-hitch from a bollard unless they found it in the gedunk compartment*. (*snackroom) pb ._._. U.S. Coast Guard reservists are standing watch on Iraq's offshore oil terminal [U.S. News & World Report] 8:17:06 PM    comment [];

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