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Cpl Joshua Caldwell
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Putin really shouldn't be starting crap with us now. The scared little girl is no longer our POTUS
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CDR Jon Corrigan
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I'm quite certain the SPY-1D radar was in high power at the time; others would have ordered 'burn-through' on the jet to set off all his bells & whistles. At any rate, hope he already has a family, because more children likely aren't in his future.
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PO1 Bill O
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People are uncontrollable in certain situations, a pilot who "Strafes" a naval ship 95% is doing it on his/her own accord, President Trump has no control of a pilot in the Gulf of Aden nor for that matter does Putin either, who decides to strafe a Russian or American ship! The media loves to sensationalize news, lets make it sound like Putin himself was in the cockpit. Wake up America and put on your thinking caps! This happened to a ship I was stationed on in the past before and then the USS Stark got fired on. At 10:10 PM, the AWACS crew noticed that the Mirage had banked suddenly and then turned northward, as though heading for home. What they failed to detect was the launching by the Iraqi pilot of two Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles. The Exocets had a range of 40 miles and each carried a 352 lb. warhead. For some reason, the sea-skimming missiles were not detected by the Stark's sophisticated monitoring equipment. A lookout spotted the first Exocet just seconds before the missile struck, tearing a ten-by-fifteen-foot hole in the warship's steel hull on the port side before ripping through the crew's quarters. The resulting fire rushed upward into the vessel's combat information center, disabling the electrical systems. The second missile plowed into the frigate's superstructure.
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