Death By The Blues posted:

He is just so busted

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1713693793990348853

hubris.height posted:

archduke franz ferdinand on his recent travel plans: "definitely a great idea"

BULBASAUR posted:

didn't know that tommy killed christ, drat

Tankbuster posted:

children should be playing workers and resources.

Apraxin posted:

Scarabrae posted:

I really loving hate joe biden

AxGrap posted:

Did anyone say infant-ada yet?

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

Did they name any ships after the Vietnam or Afghan Wars? Pretty telling sign of imperial decline when you run out of actual victories to name your poo poo after and have to go for technicalities.

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USS Hué City (CG-66) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She was ordered 16 April 1987, and laid down 20 February 1989, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi. Hué City was in active service from 14 September 1991 to 23 September 2022.[1] She is named for the Battle of Huế, fought in the city during the Tet Offensive of 1968 by the 1st Marine Regiment (composed of 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines and attached units) during the Vietnam War. The three battalion commanders were the honored guests at her 1991 commissioning.

Hué City is the only U.S. Navy ship named after a battle in the Vietnam War, although it had been planned to name LHA-5 as USS Khe Sanh after the Battle of Khe Sanh, but that ship was commissioned in 1976 as Peleliu. As the only U.S. warship named for a battle that took place during the Vietnam War, Hué City had the opportunity to reach out to the veterans of the battle for which she is named. She frequently held memorials commemorating the Battle of Hué .

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USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) is the 62nd ship of the Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers in the United States Navy. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy (1976–2005). Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in June 2005. He was the first sailor awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. The ship's name was announced by Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter on 7 May 2008. The ship was christened on 7 May 2011, Murphy's birthday,[5] by her sponsor Maureen Murphy, Michael Murphy's mother.[3][4][7][8] The ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 31 of Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific.[9]

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Michael Patrick Murphy (May 7, 1976 – June 28, 2005) was a United States Navy SEAL officer who was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the War in Afghanistan. He was the first member of the United States Navy to receive the award since the Vietnam War.[1] His other posthumous awards include the Silver Star Medal[2][3][n 1] and the Purple Heart.

Michael Murphy was born and raised in Suffolk County, New York. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with honors and dual degrees in political science and psychology. After college he accepted a commission in the United States Navy and became a United States Navy SEAL in July 2002. After participating in several War on Terrorism missions, he was killed on June 28, 2005, after his team was compromised and surrounded by Taliban forces near Asadabad, Afghanistan.

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Operation Red Wings was a counter-insurgent mission in Kunar province, Afghanistan, involving a four man special reconnaissance team of United States Navy SEALs. Murphy and two other SEALs in the team, Danny Dietz and Matthew Axelson, were killed in the fighting, in addition to 16 other U.S. special operations members, who were killed when their helicopter was shot down while attempting to extract the SEAL recon team. Prior to a helicopter being shot down in 2011,[8][9] Operation Red Wings was both the largest loss of life for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the invasion began[10] and the largest loss for the SEALs since the Vietnam War.

Murphy was the commander of the four-man reconnaissance team made up of himself, Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson, and Marcus Luttrell. The team was tasked with conducting surveillance on a top Taliban leader, Ahmad Shah (code name Ben Sharmak),[11] who commanded a group of insurgents known as the "Mountain Tigers,"[12] west of Asadabad.[13][14] They were dropped off by helicopter in a remote, mountainous area east of Asadabad in Kunar Province, near the Pakistan border. After an initially successful infiltration, local goat herders stumbled upon the SEALs' location. Unable to verify any hostile intent from the herders, the team cut them loose. Hostile locals, possibly the goat herders they released, alerted nearby Taliban forces, who surrounded and attacked the small team. At the cost of his own life, Murphy was able to get a message out to friendly forces of their situation, which prompted reinforcements flown in on an MH-47 Chinook helicopter. The helicopter was shot down by an RPG, killing all 16 personnel aboard; eight were SEALs, the other eight were 160th SOAR.[4]

Murphy, Dietz, and Axelson were killed in the action. Luttrell was the only U.S. survivor and was eventually rescued, after having wandered in the mountains before being taken in by friendly local Afghan villagers.[4] All three of Murphy's men were awarded the Navy's second-highest honor, the Navy Cross, for their part in the battle; alongside Murphy's Medal of Honor, their team became the most decorated in Navy SEAL history.[15]

As a consequence of this, the US Military no longer allows for just 4 men in operations like this, it is now standard to have 8+ men in such an operation.

Frosted Flake posted:

Apparently they've started construction of USS Fallujah, work began this year.

Zedhe Khoja posted:

imagining him keeling over and kamala having to handle the PR for Israel's genocide

Lord of Pie posted:

It's all the ones named after an American, OP

Godlessdonut posted:

Ahhh that makes sense then.

Frosted Flake posted:

Apparently they've started construction of USS Fallujah, work began this year.

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

Someone complained, I think it was in this thread that the USS Chesapeake of the original six frigates of the US Navy dropped the naming convention on being named after the founding principles of the United States like Constitution, President etc. but I don't think even 18th century America would have been ready for a USS Slavery.

Johnny Cache Hit posted:

eagerly awaiting the name of the first USS vessel that’s just a racial slur

err posted:

Getting gas lit by Biden.

It's Palastine that is doing the genocide.

Frosted Flake posted:

Apparently they've started construction of USS Fallujah, work began this year.

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's why they keep saying "this is the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust" - it's supposed to make negotiations impossible by creating the impression that any kind of concession to Hamas is going to kill more people compared to continuing the fighting

it's the same rhetoric they use with the Ukrainians and the Holodomor

Willa Rogers posted:

First they came for the supermodels and I did not speak out, because I was not a supermodel.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnZQhKmDxk

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Actually, the extremely well-funded and supported ethnostate with an expensive boondoggle like the Iron Dome is the perpetual victim against the unarmed civilians and hospitals that get in the way of its bombs.

e: I know it's nothing new, but the constant invocation of the Holocaust as a shield/excuse for Israel's genocide is probably one of the most despicable things that Israel (and its supporters) do. I am not Jewish, but imagine losing family members in the Holocaust and having them metaphorically dug up and thrown in your face whenever you criticize Israel in any way. It's disgusting.

Frosted Flake posted:

Apparently they've started construction of USS Fallujah, work began this year.

Oglethorpe posted:

i thought you were loving joking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fallujah

Death By The Blues posted:

Storming a whole bunch of places in the West Bank currently

https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1713724602629677336

brain smoothie posted:

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We have seen there there is no limit to its depravity… this is an organisation of subhumans ...

Valleyant posted:

Isn't the West bank like completely toothless whats the point of that