U.S. soldiers mutiny in Iraq?

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2004-10-23 10:16am

MKSheppard wrote:If that fuel was contaminated those people showed leadership in saying fuck no we won't use it.

Hey Mark...go read my about half dozen posts on the subject.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-10-23 11:54am

MKSheppard wrote: I'm a bit testy on this as I recently finished reading Sailors to the End about the USS Forrestal Fire of July 1969.

That fire became the horrible massacre it was by a complete failure
of virtually the entire chain of command to reject leaking 1935
manufactured high drag iron bombs which had been sitting in an
open air quonset hut in the philliphines ever since WWII ended!

That the only people properly trained in how to fight shipboard fires were all killed early on the disaster certainly didn't help.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-10-23 04:30pm

Tsyroc wrote:That the only people properly trained in how to fight shipboard fires were all killed early on the disaster certainly didn't help.

Because the first bomb detonated 1 minute 48 seconds into the fire
didn't help either. A modern low drag bomb would have lasted about
30 minutes before low order detonating. Not so with those WWII
antiques.

Post by **Rob Wilson** » 2004-10-23 05:07pm

CmdrWilkens wrote: Hey Mark...go read my about half dozen posts on the subject.

Don't waste your breathe, he'll go off on his tangent and witter on about things he hasn't a fucking clue about (but read some almost related info on) for the rest of the thread. Just ignore the blowhard twat. If he's already ignored anything salient previously posted, you can guess he just wants to rant as usual, so can be completely ignored as usual.