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You guys! Just made a great Saturday morning start with a good chuckle. Thanks.

Good on the Navy. Good to know, also, that they have chosen, thus far, NOT to name a ship after Clinton or Obama!

RIP big fellow.

My best guess is that heaven's review of killers is short and, oh, so sweet.

Actually, I think Martin Sheen, Charlies' dad, served on the Porter. I thought he was the captain though. Perhaps he changed his name......

A culture where any disagreement must result in the death of one party or the other will never be able to come to terms with a culture where agreeing to disagree is the norm. Nuc em all!

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Mako, I'm good with that! Where did you get that poster? I want one bad.

Everybody dies of something, but dying because of being a dumbass is a bad way to go. Especially if you take others with you.

Too sweet. Wish that had come about.

Would that we could aim high now with a national commitment as we did in this great man's time. Clear skies and a following wind to a real hero.

I stand guilty of 20/20 hindsight and off-the-cuff commentary without all of the facts. My heart still rests with the cannon fodder of the day.

Evidently he had just received a medical report about a possible brain tumor. I understand the need to go his own way. RIP.

I am a (poor) student of WWII history and only knew briefly of the Dieppe raid. Now I know why. How can you piss away over 3,000 fighting men just to test the waters. That was more than the losses of the USN at Pearl Harbor and the Dieppe raid CC got a DSM!! Anything strange here to anyone else??? Who was the idiot who approved the go, Churchill under advisement from Monty. Lots of lip-slapping by non-participants or survivors on the positive achievements of the raid, but, I gotta tell you, the whole thing appears to be an absolute disaster from start to finish. Does tarnish the image a bit! Reminds me of Halsey deserting the landing force in the Phillipines on the other side of the planet when it comes to calling a military disaster "positive". Small wonder that the Canadians offered one more man for the war effort following this monster malfunction.

Sean is the man! In my opinion, the best real actor of the lot.

I guess the non-existant Kiwi AF is based on some threat assessment study. Hope nobody wants their islands that is better equipped.

Invigorating ceremony. Well Done. Not quite sure I understood the National Health Service hospital beds relationship to the the Olympics though?

Capt Tommy Zorn, USAF Pilot F-105G Died 17 Sept 1972 Capt Al Henderson Pilot U-2R Died (location and date undisclosed)

Yuk!!

What kind of aircraft are the Kiwi's now flying?

That was some outstanding airmanship to get the jet back on the ground. Respect due to the pilot.

Worthy advesaries. Congratulations!

you gotta love the Marines!!!!

I have thought that the American version of James Bond is Jason Bourne. Not big with the martinis and tuxedos, but fairly capable in getting the job done. In either case, the pointy end of the spear is an unstable and risky life. Looking forward to SkyFall and to the Bourne Legacy as well.

When I was an instructor in T-37s I had a student barf in the midst of spin recovery training. There we were hurtling down in a full spin with not much altitude to recover and all I could think about was shifting the rudders enough to get the amoeba-like ball of barf floating in the cockpit over the student's lap before putting some positive 'g' on the jet. We got the floating ball when the student was hurling into his oxygen mask (live mike) and could not get his mask unhooked. I admit that I thought about letting him pass out first, but relented visualizing the headlines of letting the kid die in his breakfast pizza. I reached over and released his bayonet clip and out came this really ripe ball of ugly stuff. Thank God for 100% oxygen selectors so I didn't have to smell the stuff all the way home. Poor youngster spent the better part of two hours cleaning up the mess to the satisfaction of the crew chief after we landed. And we did recover prior to impacting the earth, but not by a whole bunch.