"TJ" wrote in message
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Gordon wrote:
No kidding?? that used to be verboten!

sorry to be spouting bad gouge.

v/r Gordon

Gordon,
The US has been operating carriers in the Persian Gulf for some years
now. It annoys the hell out of the Iranians. They are always sending
MPAs out to try and identify carriers and their escorts. Their ship
recognition is crap. Their intelligence guys must have nightmares
trying to collate all the crap vis reports that both the IRGC and the
IRIAF send back to base? Their MPAs are forever getting warned off on
freq.

TJ


My ship, the TR (CVN-71), was in the gulf from october 2005-march 2006. We
cruised just off the iranian coast while bombing iraq for almost a month
just to **** them off. They kept sending out boats to intercept us claiming
we were violating their territory but they stopped after we started firing
warning shots. they didn't find 5 .50 cals shooting at them very appealing.
G

Jason