04-08-2009, 12:50 PM
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when i was in NYC once i did a tour of the USS Constitution (old ironsides) and it was there that marines where used as riflemen on the ships. why those 200 ships are not armed is honestly beyond me.
the ransom cost of the $100 million oil tanker was $3 mil, another mentioned in that article was $3.2 mil. i could get rednecks to sleep on deck and pay me for the opportunity to shot pirates; let alone what i could do with a limited budget far far below $3 mil.
interesting side note from the visit in NYC was that one of the requirements to be a marine at the time was that you had to have two teeth that met together so that you could bite through the packets that carried the gun powder.
Quote:There are fewer than 200 U.S.-flagged vessels in international waters, said Larry Howard, chair of the Global Business and Transportation Department at SUNY Maritime College in New York
when i was in NYC once i did a tour of the USS Constitution (old ironsides) and it was there that marines where used as riflemen on the ships. why those 200 ships are not armed is honestly beyond me.
the ransom cost of the $100 million oil tanker was $3 mil, another mentioned in that article was $3.2 mil. i could get rednecks to sleep on deck and pay me for the opportunity to shot pirates; let alone what i could do with a limited budget far far below $3 mil.
interesting side note from the visit in NYC was that one of the requirements to be a marine at the time was that you had to have two teeth that met together so that you could bite through the packets that carried the gun powder.