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Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:29 am
by clancyphile
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:44 am
He will be greatly missed. Never met him prewar, but I did meet him on a few occasions after-especially when he was running the VA.
He was passionate about turning it around after those "separate waiting lists" were discovered.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:19 am
by Wolfman
Hey, Matt, does Kelly Ann’s Beagle still have that shark kill mark on it?
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:58 am
by Matt Wiser
Of course. Hers has all five of her kills: three before being shot down and the two in Baja. She also has a POW-MIA emblem painted beneath the crew names.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:35 am
by jemhouston
When and how did she earn a shark kill?
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:57 am
by Belushi TD
jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:35 am
When and how did she earn a shark kill?
By killing a shark, of course!
Belushi TD
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:25 pm
by jemhouston
Belushi TD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:57 am
jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:35 am
When and how did she earn a shark kill?
By killing a shark, of course!
Belushi TD
Why did she get credit for it and when did it happen?
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:19 pm
by Wolfman
jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:25 pm
Belushi TD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:57 am
jemhouston wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:35 am
When and how did she earn a shark kill?
By killing a shark, of course!
Belushi TD
Why did she get credit for it and when did it happen?
IIRC, her second trip to Key West for war crimes trials relating to her time as a POW… it was a five foot long tiger shark.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:02 am
by Lordroel
So who is the person that tried to seek political asylum, in the Mexican embassy in Ecuador but who was still arrested by the Ecuadorian police after they enter the embassy in Quito.
I am hearing it is somebody the United States wants for crimes committed during the War but Ecuador is not releasing the person name.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:21 pm
by Wolfman
That’s still a pretty lengthy list, Lordroel…
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:02 pm
by Lordroel
Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:21 pm
That’s still a pretty lengthy list, Lordroel…
Well who ever the person is, he must be important enough for Ecuador to storm the Mexican embassy, CNN and other media outlets are running down a list of those who they think it can be but so far the Department of State and the Ecuadorian government are tight lipped saying the name will be released soon.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:25 pm
by Wolfman
And the Venezuelans are screaming about it… when is that lunatic in Caracas going to just shut up?
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:42 pm
by Lordroel
Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:25 pm
And the Venezuelans are screaming about it… when is that lunatic in Caracas going to just shut up?
As long as he screams and not decides to do a Falklands 2.0 on the Netherlands Antilles i ignore him.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:53 pm
by Wolfman
If he tries, he’s in for a world of hurt…
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:01 pm
by clancyphile
Lordroel wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:42 pm
Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:25 pm
And the Venezuelans are screaming about it… when is that lunatic in Caracas going to just shut up?
As long as he screams and not decides to do a Falklands 2.0 on the Netherlands Antilles i ignore him.
If he does do a Falklands on the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao), what can be done? They were not covered by the text of the NATO treaty, so... do the Dutch have the ability to take them back on their own?
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:46 pm
by Lordroel
clancyphile wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:01 pm
If he does do a Falklands on the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao), what can be done? They were not covered by the text of the NATO treaty, so... do the Dutch have the ability to take them back on their own?
We do have a good navy, also remember it is not first time that Venezuela tried to do something stupid.
OOC: remember that there was on the old board something like the Venezuela Crisis of 2010, if i remember cocrectly.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:18 pm
by Poohbah
clancyphile wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:01 pm
Lordroel wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:42 pm
Wolfman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:25 pm
And the Venezuelans are screaming about it… when is that lunatic in Caracas going to just shut up?
As long as he screams and not decides to do a Falklands 2.0 on the Netherlands Antilles i ignore him.
If he does do a Falklands on the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao), what can be done? They were not covered by the text of the NATO treaty, so... do the Dutch have the ability to take them back on their own?
There's no NATO dog in the fight...but the United States is hardly an uninterested party, and the UK has significant regional interests as well.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:51 pm
by Bernard Woolley
If the Netherlands asks for help, we’d happily give it. Given the close relationship between the Booties and Cloggies, I could almost imagine our marines being given a temporary ‘transfer’ if needed.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:18 pm
by Lordroel
Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:51 pm
If the Netherlands asks for help, we’d happily give it. Given the close relationship between the Booties and Cloggies, I could almost imagine our marines being given a temporary ‘transfer’ if needed.
You assume it is needed, the clown in Caracas only makes a fuss because what is happening in Ecuador, so far no name on who is captured, must be a high profile if they are still not releasing the person name, ore are they waiting until he is back in the United States.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:26 pm
by jemhouston
I can't find the guy's name, but someone was running a Ponzi scheme, and got found out. About two minutes before the cops got to his estate, he got out. Rumor has it, he got out to South America. There were rumors he was laundering money for various cartels and anti-US groups.
If he was paying someone off to stay in country and the money ran out, that could explain things.
I may be combing rumors, so Morton Salt Time.
Re: General Discussion Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:33 pm
by Lordroel
jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:26 pm
I can't find the guy's name, but someone was running a Ponzi scheme, and got found out. About two minutes before the cops got to his estate, he got out. Rumor has it, he got out to South America. There were rumors he was laundering money for various cartels and anti-US groups.
If he was paying someone off to stay in country and the money ran out, that could explain things.
I may be combing rumors, so Morton Salt Time.
And that is worth storming a embassy, okay it is the Mexican embassy we are talking about, they as i heard are known for smuggling tobacco, alcohol, human trafficking, arms trafficking, narcotics, gold, money laundering with the aim of bringing in much-needed foreign currency for the Mexican regime.