Drug Boat Strike

[Brett327]

As news is breaking of a 3rd boat being sunk, an interesting article from Foreign Affairs.

The Wrong Way to Fight the Cartels

Trump risks repeating the mistakes of the “War on Terror”.

www.foreignaffairs.com

On a sidenote, wonder if the Navy could make use of the LCS’s in this area rather than retire them?

I know the LCS can accommodate a -60, but are they regularly deploying with an actual helo det, or is that more of a contingency capability?

 

[Swanee]

I did a 6 month deployment there circa 1995, split between Panama and Soto Cano, Honduras. Roosy was a great place to deploy.

This song was on continuous loop the entire time...

We christened the little island off the all hands beach as AO Island, so no trespassing w/o rendering proper IYAOYAS honors. Easy SCUBA diving, 24 ft sailboat rentals at the marina, and great liberty. One of our AMEs was like a 24 year old virgin, so we all took him to the brothel... Black Angus, and got him laid. Pretty funny experience, as he emerged about 15 minutes later with a big grin on his face. Good times.

I was born a half generation too late!

 

[MIDNJAC]

I did a 6 month deployment there circa 1995, split between Panama and Soto Cano, Honduras. Roosy was a great place to deploy.

I participated in a high school student debate that year. It was about Clinton's push to put a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. And I guess the Taliban was a point of friction. I bet you'd have been awe struck at our collective talking points

(you sir are old lol)

 

[sickboy]

I know the LCS can accommodate a -60, but are they regularly deploying with an actual helo det, or is that more of a contingency capability?

I can’t say that all LCS deployments have a det on them, but it’s not unusual at all to deploy on an LCS as an HSM guy. However the bulk of our dets are still on DDG/CGs

 

[Brett327]

I participated in a high school student debate that year. It was about Clinton's push to put a gas pipeline through Afghanistan. And I guess the Taliban was a point of friction. I bet you'd have been awe struck at our collective talking points

(you sir are old lol)

Did you do Cross-Ex debate?

 

[MIDNJAC]

Did you do Cross-Ex debate?

I didn't recall that term, but after googling, yes, that is what we did