Pirate guns to you head

[Straybow]

What Somalis? It's not like they have a government or anything.

Yes, and if no genuine aid materializes (which the captain should anticipate) then the frigate can take action. Cut the trawler off and order the "skinnies" to stand down and release the crew.

Stretch out the incident until higher-ups get their buttocks in gear.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by David Floyd


Sounds like someone needs to remind the Somalis of the casualty ratio of US soldiers vs. "skinnys" last time the US sent troops in.

That was when Lewinsky Delta Six and Lima Delta Six decided to gut and drastically reduce forces before getting active on the ground. And only then when they crippled and FUBARed that mission before it started. We're gonna snatch Aidid and his cabinet, but we don't want to "offend" the locals by providing APCs and real gunships for support.

When we had a real force there under UNITAF, the Somalis didn't **** without permission.

[David Floyd]

MtG, I actually meant the opposite. Even with force reductions and political restrictions, we killed hundreds at the cost of 19, and inflicting a couple thousand more casualties at the cost of a few dozen of our own. Don't **** with the US military was my point.

[Dr Strangelove]

Re: Re: Pirate guns to you head

Originally posted by Elok


For starters, a pair of clean underwear...

I've had a gun put to my head, and on more than one occassion, and I never lost bowel control.

[Zkribbler]

Re: Re: Re: Pirate guns to you head

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I've had a gun put to my head, and on more than one occassion, and I never lost bowel control.

*zkribbler faints*

[Barnabas]

I am with slow, I would rather die than be sent captive to somalia

[Barnabas]

Why not recognize somaliland?

The rest of the country sucks may be worse than burma or north korea.

[Ted Striker]

Let's relocate the Northern Alliance from Afghanistan into Somalia let them do some dirty work

[Elok]

Re: Re: Re: Pirate guns to you head

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove I've had a gun put to my head, and on more than one occassion, and I never lost bowel control.

Yeah, well, you're a doctor. You've been trained in staring at horror. You can probably look at a guy with his abdomen ripped open and coils of bloody intestine popping out and not go into psychogenic shock. Have pity on us mere mortals here.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Why not recognize somaliland?

Cuz there's no government?

[Dr Strangelove]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Pirate guns to you head

Originally posted by Elok


Yeah, well, you're a doctor. You've been trained in staring at horror. You can probably look at a guy with his abdomen ripped open and coils of bloody intestine popping out and not go into psychogenic shock. Have pity on us mere mortals here.

I was 9.

[Elok]

Okay, so you were also a Doogie Howser genius kid who got his doctorate before reaching adolescence. Don't rub it in, okay?

[Dis]

Re: Re: Re: Pirate guns to you head

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


I've had a gun put to my head, and on more than one occassion, and I never lost bowel control.

details?

I've never had one pointed at my head. Except the one I was holding. Kind of silly really, I knew I would never actually kill myself. But it was kind of scary pointing a loaded gun at my head.

I'm not the type to lose bowel control. But I tend to freeze up, and it usually takes a few seconds for my brain to realize the danger. I've been mugged and robbed a few times. One time I should have called for help, but I froze up. oh well.

[Dr Strangelove]

Allowing teenagers with issues to own firearms is not a good idea. Consider it a form of bullying. The first instance was when I was 6 and involved a 30.06 rifle. I believe that he was upset at having to watch over the little kid while Mom went out shopping. I know the gun was loaded because he made a production of having me watch as he pulled the bolt back, dropped the round in the receiver, locked the bolt back and slipped the safety off. Then he brought the gun up to his shoulder and placed the muzzle about 2 inches in front of my forehead. A few years later he added hand guns to his collection and decided that I should prove my masculinity by playing Russian roulette. He had a .38 Colt revolver, loaded it, put it up to my temple, pulled the trigger, then rotated the cylinder against his arm and kept doing that until he tired of the game

[Dis]

err, maybe I didn't want to know the details.