I was REALLY hoping the co-bloggers would have something posted this morning, as I’ve been tied up and unable to even think of posting.
Since they didn’t (breaks out the whip) I’ll just toss up a vid of one of my favorite artifacts of the Vietnam War, the PCF or Fast Patrol Craft.
Yeah, yeah, John F’n Kerry served on one. But so did a lot of other people, and not all of them were pompous asses.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeFJNIGMcw&feature=grec_index]
The Navy’s LCS program should have come up with something about 2 or 3 times the size of this, but instead became a bloated monstrosity…
Thanks. I just keep learning.
*makes popcorn*
*pulls up chair*
Sorry, boss!
Well, I’m sorry too. I’m afraid I’ll have to dock your pay…
It’s not quite Load HEAT. Not quite. But it’s still damn good stuff.
We called ’em Swift Boats. I was briefly in a riverine unit in the Naval Reserve. Those things were fun to play with.
Look, the union boss called a strike for higher pay and a 401K. So I held off typing. But when you mentioned John F’n Kerry, I had to go scab and cross the picket line.