The Call at 3am

How many remember this from Hillary Clinton's campaign 4 years ago?

Well, now we know what happened. Except, it was about 5pm EDT and they blew it off. While we were having just another ordinary day, in Benghazi, Libya, everything went to hell and four men died.

So, how did Obama respond to Clinton's Ad campaign 4 years ago? Well, here we have Obama, in his own words, telling us what he would do.

There you have it. There needs to be a really good reason for him to pick up that phone. Or, what we witnessed is that he is afraid to ever pick up that phone, to ever make a hard decision. And what sort of example has our commander-in-chief set for the command structure of our armed forces? Maybe Petraeus can shed some light:

"No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ” -- The Weekly Standard, Oct 26, 2012

And yet, there are reports to contrary. Two times, help was denied by the CIA chain of command. Two times, forces on the ground were told to "stand down." A few in the media are tearing away this infernal onion, one layer at a time. We have the following report:

Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to "stand down."

Further, the reporting goes on to detail the level of communication concerning the situation evolving on the ground:

At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights.

In a story published today from KUSA 9News we have the following interchange:

KYLE CLARK: Were they denied requests for help during the attack?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we are finding out exactly what happened. I can tell you, as I've said over the last couple of months since this happened, the minute I found out what was happening, I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to. Number two, we're going to investigate exactly what happened so that it doesn't happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we can bring them to justice. And I guarantee you that everyone in the state department, our military, the CIA, you name it, had number one priority making sure that people were safe. These were our folks and we're going to find out exactly what happened, but what we're also going to do it make sure that we are identifying those who carried out these terrible attacks.

So in response to Obama's actions during the attack, we have Obama making it known that he wanted his personnel secured. Really? So, let us allow this remark to set in for a moment:

"...the minute I found out what was happening, I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to." -- Barrack H. Obama

If this is so then there has to be a clear paper trail. And if there is a paper trail, he should truly want that published to show that he was there when that phone rang. That he made the calls.

Frankly, my assessment, Obama did nothing. After events got out of hand, he spent his time scrambling for excuses and someone to pin the blame. Obama's leadership style has set the example for his leaders, cowardice, excuses, and dishonesty.

These two men understood one thing, their oath to the United States Constitution.

Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods
Former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty

My fellow comrades in arms, that is the oath we all took, without reservation, to the grave. When nobody else would lift a finger to help, they ran into harms away. They understood what needed to be done. When their chain of command went AWOL on them, they did what any honorable soldier would do. They are owed a great deal. Their memory demands we hold the cowardly accountable for the dishonor displayed by the leadership on high. Obama set the tone and we cannot be surprised by how this played out. But if we do not hold Obama and his people accountable, then we have deserted these men.

Ladies and gentlemen, our oath of office:

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Expiration Date:  **NONE!**

The Soldier's Creed:

I am an American Soldier.
I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values.
I will always place the mission first.
I will never accept defeat.
I will never quit.
I will never leave a fallen comrade.
I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself.
I am an expert and I am a professional.
I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat.
I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
I am an American Soldier.

Shipmate Al Shares His Hobby

Al has been out driving around taking pictures again. He must have left his telephoto lens at home. No bedroom shots this time. Then again, is that Butt standing nekkid in that window behind the car????

A few signs that I found.

 

Butt slipped this in while I was not looking...

From our Airdale Cooper on Paul Ryan

The Chief forwards these words from Coop. How do I know it was the Chief? Who else finds kind and affectionate words like "that fuggin' airdale COOPER just luv's to send long winded crap like this." Aahhh, just warms my heart!

 

PAUL RYAN, WHO IS HE ? Well, not to long ago we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States. What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia University. He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio. The man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another! One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father  and found him dead of a heart attack. He didn't write two books about that experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution. Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimer's, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need". Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. No one offered him a "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary. When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office. In Janesville, Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents. After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into Washington, buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes. Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville. He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions. For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention. No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal pedigree; he's Irish  too.No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down their leg" as a he took his seat in Congress. What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row. He is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the Democratic controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their own. What is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico? I don't know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit!  The guy's no fun at all! Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill and demanding fiscal responsibility! Well, I know I do.

BETRAYED!!!

A number of you who know me are probably waiting for an all-out rant on Obama. With a title of Betrayed, Obama has got to be at the bottom of this. Well, you are in for a BIG disappointment if you came here to see what else about Obama could anger me today.

The emails (and reported on here) from those folks in Libya about the mess going down on September 11, 2012, says a lot. Our military and defense structure was getting notice that something bad was happening to our people. When stuff like this starts to happen, people in very high places are pulled away from their activity and given continual SITREPs as a situation develops. We see that these people were getting timely video feeds.

We know that Obama does not care about human life. The liberal media is covering for Obama because they do not care about human life. I cannot do anything about that.

Out of all of this, what I find most distressing and sickening is that we had career military in high positions doing nothing. I am convinced they were doing nothing. I have no direct proof. I know the stuff real commanders are made of. I know what drives them. I know they take their oath to the Constitution far above everything, including their own lives. US civilians being butchered and sodomized to death by the enemy is something that no military man can stomach, can sit idly by, and just let happen.

There were five men, in uniform, holding the highest military offices that did nothing. A real soldier, a real commander, a real man of conviction, would never have stood by and let that happen. Any real man, with any real conviction, would have marched into the office of the president, thrown his rank on that desk, and chewed that bastard's butt until the asshole chicken shits in that office dragged him from that building. And then, let the people of this country know about the betrayal and cowardice in that office.

This is horrible stuff. This is cowardice in the face of the enemy and dereliction of duty. Obama is just a stupid little kid, but these men, how could they just sit quietly by?!?!?!?

The people that really anger me, that fill me with rage, are the generals sitting in their fine offices, sitting in their fine leather chairs, filling themselves with the ego of their overly exaggerated self worth. How can REAL soldiers sit idly by and just witness civilians being slaughter??? US CITIZENS WERE BEING SLAUGHTERED WHILE THESE GENERALS SAT BY IN THEIR BIG OFFICES AND DID NOT DO A DAMN THING!

I am disgusted with our military leadership. ALL YOU GENERALS ARE TOTAL CHICKEN SHITS! At what time do you stand up, march into the President’s office and tell him that LEAVING OUR US CITIZENS TO BE TORTURED TO DEATH IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING WE SWORE TO NOT LET HAPPEN!

GENERAL DEMPSEY, WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU?!?!?!?? COWERING IN THE CAN HOPING THAT NOBODY WOULD HEAR YOU LOSING COMPLETE CONTROL OF YOUR BODILY FUNCTIONS?!?!?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:General_Martin_E._Dempsey,_CJCS,_official_portrait_2012.jpg

GENERAL ODIERNO, TOO BUSY CHASING SECRETARIES TO DO ANYTHING?!?!?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Odierno_Raymond_CSA_ASU.jpg

ADMIRAL GREENART, TOO BUSY PLAYING WITH YOUR EFFING TOY SHIPS IN YOUR BUBBLEBATH?!?!?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Admiral_Jonathan_W._Greenert_%28CNO%29.jpg

GENERAL WELSH, HIDING BEHIND A NURSE’S SKIRTS!!?!?!?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gen_Mark_A._Welsh_III_CSAF.jpg

GENERAL AMOS, MY GOD MAN! ET TU?!?!?!? HAS A MARINE LOST HIS BALLS?!?!?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandant_of_the_Marine_Corps

ALL YOU GENERALS ARE THE MOST DISGUSTING CHICKEN SHITS TO EVER DISGRACE YOUR COLLECTIVE OFFICES! DERELICTION OF DUTY AND COWARDICE IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY. DAMN ALL OF YOU TO HELL! NO WORDS DESCRIBE THE UTTERLY HORRIBLE ACTIONS PORTRAYED BY ALL OF YOU! DAMN YOU ALL!

I REALLY HOPE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ARE BEATEN AND SODOMIZED TO DEATH JUST LIKE OUR AMBASSADOR!!!!

May your God have mercy on your souls. May you hang, stripped of your rank by Court Martial, for your betrayal to our Constitution and your cowardice in the face of the enemy.

Harold Estes addresses President Obama

Our good CAPT passes along a letter from Master Chief Boatswain Mate Harold B. Estes, written November 2009, to President Obama. The CAPT was very fortunate to have met this good man and passes on his observation that he was indeed the real deal.

The letter was verified by Snopes. The letter is mentioned on the Congress.org web site. The letter used to be on the Congress.org site at this address for his letter. I can no longer trace the link. This Urban Legends site also attributes the letter to Harold B. Estes. According to several sites researching the letter, Rick Terwilliger, publisher of Fore n' Aft Magazine, the original was dictated by Estes, signed by Estes, and mailed to the White House in November 2009.

According to several sources, Master Chief Boatswain Mate Harold B. Estes died May 17, 2011. One site shows a picture of Harold Estes, approaching 95 years. The Hawaii Reporter published an article on his passing, detailing how he was instrumental in bringing the USS Bowfin and USS Missouri (both moored a short distance from the Arizona) to Pearl Harbor. Here is a tribute to the memory of Harold Estes.

The following is the best representation that I can find of the letter. I hope that everyone will be tolerant of me if I have failed to capture it entirely; however, I think it fully conveys the full frustration that he and many others feel toward this president.


Dear President Obama

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.. So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

I can't figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends & enemies despicable lies like: " We're no longer a Christian nation." "America is arrogant" (Your wife even announced to the world," America is mean- spirited. "Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals."

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the Commander- in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president. You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes


Sailor's Prayer from 1943:

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Grant no other sailor take
My shoes and socks before I wake.
Lord guard me in my slumber
And keep my hammock on its number.
May no clues nor lashings break
And let me down before I wake.
Keep me safely in thy sight
And grant no fire drill tonight.
And in the morning let me wake,
Breathing scents of sirloin steak.
God protect me in my dreams
And make this better than it seems.
Grant the time may swiftly fly
When myself shall rest on high.
In a snowy feather bed,
Where I long to rest my head,
Far away from all the scenes
And the smell of half-done beans.
Take me back into the land
Where they don't scrub down with sand,
Where no Demon Typhoon blows,
Where the women wash the clothes.
God thou knowest all my woes,
Feed me in my dying throes.
Take me back I'll promise then
Never to leave home again.

Single Mothers: MAJ Pain's House of the Hard Nekkid Truth

Recently, my remarks on Auntie Em's blog came under attack from a single mother. Apparently, I am some cruel heartless bastard who targets single mothers while taking government handouts in the guise of military retirement. Well, ok, I am a cruel heartless bastard. So, I would like to target single mothers in this posting and provide some help to this demographic. A demographic that is falling on their backs, to vote for Obama. Just to get us in the mood...

Can you feel the gratuitous political correctness? One of my favorite lines in that video: "...get a warm fuzzy feeling." Really??? Is that not what got you knocked up in the first place?!?!!?  But, I digress....

If you are a single mother, feeling in need of assistance, may I direct you to this site: Financial Help for Single Moms. There are some links to private concerns willing to hand out money. Go for it! I have no problem with you using a private institution for help. In fact, think about your parents as well. It has been my experience that parents are always willing to look beyond mistakes in judgment to help. Unfortunately, when I followed some of the links to a nonprofit (www.sunshinelady.org) I was confronted with a site that had more information for applying for more public assistance. When I spelled out the URL, I found the site with news announcements about getting more government grants freed up. WTF?!?!?!? A nonprofit directing people to government grants.

Continuing down the road of what we can expect from the US Govt: In order to get around the stigma of WELFARE, the site uses the term "Government Grant." And how does this site define Government Grant:

Grants: you do not want to pay back grants as you do with loans. They are given to single moms who are desperately in need of them.

Liberal jargoness takes another strange turn. Money given by the government to an individual, not requiring a loan repayment, is called a GRANT.  After the site starts with this link to why mothers want to be single parents, we delve into the many categories of grants available to single mothers. The list includes grants for housing, grants for college, grants for rent, grants for day care, and the final grants for the ubiquitous other financial needs. Welfare by yet another liberal name.

WHERE THE HELL DOES ALL OF THIS MONEY COME FROM?

And now for my response to the anonymous-posting single mother....

You have entered the House of the Hard Nekkid Truth. I am MAJ Pain and for the next one-zero-mikes I will be your primary instructor in the administration of the Painful Truth.

So, you are single mother looking to the government to save your butt because you think you are incapable of functioning without a man/government in your life. Guess what? You have already given up. Worse yet, you have condemned your children to generational welfare.

As a parent, you are irresponsible. Maybe, just maybe (assuming that maybe you are not a completely total waste of human flesh), you are a widow from a most catastrophic situation involving your husband. Responsible people carry life insurance. If your husband really cared and if you were really a responsible individual then there would have been a good policy to help you get past what happened. You would not require the USeless F(ucking)ederal Govt to hold a gun to my head, to screw over my family, to steal from me, so that you can in some way, be made “whole.”

I know, maybe you and the father of your children were just really young, barely making enough to get by, could not afford insurance. So, being the fine public school educated kids you were, you made some really important life decisions in the back seat of a car. And here you are, destitute with children. And all of this makes it a requirement on me, someone who made responsible decisions, someone who set aside for my family should I die, to give that up, facing down the barrel of the government gun, to sacrifice my family’s security for your lousy decisions, your selfish desires, your irresponsibility. You did this to your children, NOT ME! That is correct woman. You are not a victim. YOU ARE A FILTHY LAZY IRRESPONSIBLE BITCH THAT WILL STEAL FROM EVERYONE ELSE TO MAKE UP FOR YOUR LIBERAL BULLSHIT.

So, let us cover that stupid remark about military retirement. I am a veteran. I have 100% disability and a medical discharge from the Army. I spent time in recovery. When I was able to work, I stopped taking any further retirement from the Army and checked out of the VA. When I entered into the service long ago, a compensatory agreement existed between the US and me that was all consecrated by law under the requirements of the US Constitution to provide for a standing Army, to defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. Under that law, it was recognized that I would sacrifice myself to serve this country and in return the US Government would compensate me on the level commensurate with that sacrifice. Anyone receiving a military retirement check also carries orders in the event that the US Govt calls any of us back to duty. This is compensation for us to be ready in the event we might be called back, not an entitlement.

You filthy liberals will fight tooth and nail for a school teacher to get their pension and yet you will gladly screw over a soldier who lost a leg, or a double amputee (in the service of this country), because it fits in your selfish, power buying schemes. Personally, I think it is very likely you have children from multiple fathers because you were too strung out on drugs to know what you were doing. On top of that, your children are likely screwed up from your drug/alcohol problems. Someone should tie you to a pole and shoot your filthy liberal ass.

Just like the loser you are, you have to drag down anyone who is successful. Rather than trying to be a success (and there are a lot of very successful single mothers out there that educated themselves, make good salaries, and loath taking a dime from anyone), you gang up with your government mob to destroy successful people. Well once you are done trying, I hope you starve to death from your own greed and jealousy. Unfortunately, the real victims are your children and they will suffer at the hand of another filthy liberal bitch.

Keep your Butt down!

Butt forwards us some history from  Mamalooch. From when our country was known for having the pride to make the best stuff on the planet and having the balls to do stuff with it that no sane man would ever attempt.

B-17 "All American" (414th Squadron, 97BG)

• Crew Pilot- Ken Bragg Jr.
• Copilot- G. Boyd Jr.
• Navigator- Harry C. Nuessle
• Bombardier- Ralph Burbridge
• Engineer- Joe C. James
• Radio Operator- Paul A. Galloway
• Ball Turret Gunner- Elton Conda
• Waist Gunner- Michael Zuk
• Tail Gunner- Sam T. Sarpolus
• Ground Crew Chief- Hank Hyland

 
A mid-air collision on February 1, 1943, between a B-17 and a German fighter over the Tunis dock area, became the subject of one of the most famous photographs of World War II. An enemy fighter attacking a 97th Bomb Group formation went out of control, probably with a wounded pilot then continued its crashing descent into the rear of the fuselage of a Fortress named All American, piloted by Lt. Kendrick R. Bragg, of the 414th Bomb Squadron. When it struck, the fighter broke apart, but left some pieces in the B-17. The left horizontal stabilizer of the Fortress and left elevator were completely torn away.

The two right engines were out and one on the left had a serious oil pump leak. The vertical fin and the rudder had been damaged, the fuselage had been cut almost completely through connected only at two small parts of the frame and the radios, electrical and oxygen systems were damaged. There was also a hole in the top that was over 16 feet long and 4 feet wide at its widest.

The split in the fuselage went all the way to the top gunners turret.

Although the tail actually bounced and swayed in the wind and twisted when the plane turned and all the control cables were severed, except one single elevator cable still worked, and the aircraft still flew - miraculously! The tail gunner was trapped because there was no floor connecting the tail to the rest of the plane.

The waist and tail gunners used parts of the German fighter and their own parachute harnesses in an attempt to keep the tail from ripping off and the two sides of the fuselage from splitting apart. While the crew was trying to keep the bomber from coming apart, the pilot continued on his bomb run and released his bombs over the target.

When the bomb bay doors were opened, the wind turbulence was so great that it blew one of the waist gunners into the broken tail section. It took several minutes and four crew members to pass him ropes from parachutes and haul him back into the forward part of the plane. When they tried to do the same for the tail gunner, the tail began flapping so hard that it began to break off. The weight of the gunner was adding some stability to the tail section, so he went back to his position.

The turn back toward England had to be very slow to keep the tail from twisting off. They actually covered almost 70 miles to make the turn home. The bomber was so badly damaged that it was losing altitude and speed and was soon alone in the sky. For a brief time, two more Me-109 German fighters attacked the All American. Despite the extensive damage, all of the machine gunners were able to respond to these attacks and soon drove off the fighters. The two waist gunners stood up with their heads sticking out through the hole in the top of the fuselage to aim and fire their machine guns. The tail gunner had to shoot in short bursts because the recoil was actually causing the plane to turn.

Allied P-51 fighters intercepted the All American as it crossed over the Channel and took one of the pictures shown.

They also radioed to the base describing that the empennage was waving like a fish tail and that the plane would not make it and to send out boats to rescue the crew when they bailed out. The fighters stayed with the Fortress taking hand signals from Lt. Bragg and relaying them to the base. Lt. Bragg signaled that 5 parachutes and the spare had been "used" so five of the crew could not bail out. He made the decision that if they could not bail out safely, then he would stay with the plane and land it.

Two and a half hours after being hit, the aircraft made its final turn to line up with the runway while it was still over 40 miles away. It descended into an emergency landing and a normal roll-out on its landing gear.
      
When the ambulance pulled alongside, it was waved off because not a single member of the crew had been injured. No one could believe that the aircraft could still fly in such a condition. The Fortress sat placidly until the crew all exited through the door in the fuselage and the tail gunner had climbed down a ladder, at which time the entire rear section of the aircraft collapsed onto the ground. The rugged old bird had done its job.

Thank you Mamalooch!  --OTR

If you think like a master, a slave, or a thief then you NEED socialism

What is the mindset of a socialist? Where are we in this spectrum of masters, slaves, and thieves? You may already fit in one of these categories and not know it. And what about our children? What do they think? Well, here is one look into the mind of an amazing bunch of teenagers:

Pretty remarkable group for a bunch of kids. Did they create our Social Security system? Did they create our Medicare system? Many people in this country today expect them to be good subjects and assume the burden when they start working. It sounds a lot like masters expecting our children to be sold into slavery. All the while, we let the thieves walk away having spent our Social Security system into oblivion, to steal votes.

The Declaration of Independence is a remarkable document. These teenagers appear to have read it. How often does that happen in our government schools? When we have to go to court to sue our USeless F(ucking)ederal Govt to stop it from trampling our rights we really do not have them in the first place. We let the USeless Govt trample our rights everyday and it is just not worth the effort to fight it. Is that not true?

Another damn salamander gets put on the list of protected species and it is somebody's problem BUT IT IS NOT MINE! And every day, we have people in Washington pass more laws, issue more executive edicts, violate our laws, and we just let it happen. Oh sure, elect somebody different. Take a flight with the TSA's hand on your crotch because your 4th Amendment Right has been "suspended" for the common good. And when you finally have had it and you shout out in your frustration to not take it anymore, the jacked-booted thugs show up at your door to take you in for observation, to help you adjust, or keep you talk until you "admit" to a crime.

Guess what? Our Social Security Fund has been raided by every administration since JFK. And now, we are going to press our children into slavery while the thieves just walk away. None of us have the ethical or moral right to do that. Yet we are willing to become the masters rather than tracking down the thieves and hanging the filthy thieving bastards who deserve it.

SUCK IT UP YOU SOCIALIST BASTARDS! Something I have noticed about human nature, that if given the choice to be charitable people will freely volunteer to do it. But when made to be slaves of the crown, eventually the people rise up and slaughter the king and his allies.

ATTENTION ON DECK!

The CAPT sends us this collection from the papers in Great Britain. The USeless liberal media insists on remaining blind. Or maybe, they are not so blind. Just unwilling to tarnish their king.

Thank you CAPT! 





Ok everyone, nothing here to see. Move along. Be good mundane subjects of the crown.