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2006-07-08 China-Japan-Koreas

USS Mustin in Japan (along with some other US "shoot down" ships)

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Posted by BA 2006-07-08 16:45|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gawd, you gotta love a US Navy spokesman with that name!

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Amerilikka! Ain't it a great place!

Posted by 6 2006-07-08 21:14|| 2006-07-08 21:14|| Front Page Top

#2 USS Mustin

Hammering Hank must be proud.

Posted by Penguin 2006-07-08 21:54|| 2006-07-08 21:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Just today, I saw an old guy at the grocery store giving out free samples. At a second glance, I noticed that he was wearing a US Navy cap with a destroyer on it. Turns out he was a WWII Navy vet, so I mentioned the deployment of the destroyer Mustin to defend Japan.

He said that in his day destroyers were called "tin cans", because they were lightly armored, fast and expendable. He didn't miss the irony of the US Navy now protecting Japan, then confessed that maybe sometime he would like to pay a visit to one of these new ships.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-08 22:22|| 2006-07-08 22:22|| Front Page Top

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