Castro Castro Castro can anyone give me a hand.

[Sailor for Warner]

I am happy to be back on the boards after my last deplyoment BTW. But now as I sit here trying to enjoy my holiday leave period, I have to worry about if Castro is going to die before Jan 8. If he does I may have to loose my leave and get underway. Anyone have any inside info, I know i can count on hearing it here first.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Welcome back sailor

enjoy stand down

He was absent at the closing of the Cuban assembly, but all it's quiet SO FAR.

If this is anything like the Kremlin it will be sudden though should not be shocking

Enjoy standown

[Sailor for Warner]

2. Thanks Ill try

If I have to get underway and miss the first vacation my wife and I have had in 4 years just because he kicked it I am going to be fuming!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Trust me, as a wife of a retired USN Chief

bubble head I do understand

We were just lucky... as in the ammount of aniversaries we got to spend together... but we knew it was highly unusual, and they are on the 20th of this month.

So just enjoy it

[Sailor for Warner]

4. Yeah its getting alot harder these days

the days of the regular scked deployment are over, "surge" and "ready duty ship" are the buzzwords now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Yeah we got the early taste of it

his last two deployments less than 12 months

They were on station after 9.11

[Wiley50]

5. I don't understand why Castro would be enough to mobilize you

It's a really little island
with no military to speak of

But They really train a whole lot of great doctors
Is the American Medical Association
part of the Joint chiefs now?

Better focus on the Persian Gulf right now
that's where your mobilization will come from

[Sailor for Warner]

6. Nahh they will take the ships off of

the HOA and the Med to go to the Gulf. We would probably be helping out the coasties with some sort of mass migration.

[Wiley50]

7. Ain't Gonna Happen. bud

Who the fuck would want to come here?

If we hit Iran we are ground zero for Russia and China missles

You're really better off offshore

[Sailor for Warner]

8. Im sure my wife would disagree "bud"

nt

[Wiley50]

12. Google " Shanghi Defense Agreement"

No offense to you or your wife

But "Heads up'

[Sailor for Warner]

18. I dont care honestly

I would rather get vaporized with her that be out at sea with 300 of my "best friends"

[Wiley50]

25. In your situation, I don't blame you

But it sucks that the neocons put people like you
into this situation

Honestly, Good luck

I really mean that
It could have been me or my kid

[William769]

9. Your here.

:shrug:

[Sailor for Warner]

13. Im here because my wife is working tonight

The life of a lawyer never ends.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Hmm given some of the thinsg I saw as a Navy Wife

or as I like to call it my other life before marriage, I will respectfully disagree...

I have seen USN ships break Time Distance records in crisis that would make you go... WTF? Why are they leaving port?

[Sailor for Warner]

16. Yeah

Ive seen some of that action (I will have been underway 13 months out of this 18 months tour once it is done.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. out of 20 and some months in the Navy

he did eighteen and a half at sea... ah the joys of being an A-Nav, (assistant Navigator for land lovers)

They offered him Master if he staid, but alas no shore duty... anywhere... he had it.

Took quite a bit for them not to forcibly extend him.

It helps to be in good terms with your local Senator, and I am not shitting you on that one.

[Sailor for Warner]

19. Ha he was a Quartermaster eh?

I am a Navigator myself right now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Yep,

he was a QM... and a damn good one... but he got severely burned by it... gee I wonder why.

[Wiley50]

21. Well, we have disagreed before

Mexico comes to mind

But, also respectfully,
I'm positive Bush and Cheney will attack Iran
before the dem congress convenes
They are backed into a corner
and need a diversion
and they don;t care who or how many they kill

if that happens
All bets are off

No telling what will happen

[Sailor for Warner]

22. I think no honestly

Except that I ran does a very good job trying to provoke us into action. Anyone who has been to the Strait of Hormuz can back me up.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Actually it is mutual

depending on the day of the week.

And you also know that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Oh I do expect Iran to ahem

have an incident, it is just the things I have seen Navy ships break out of port that tell me, if he dies... I can bet whatever is left in the Eastern Sea board will be going.

Does not matter what you think will happen, but what the "reality" our fearless leader thinks will happen

[roody]

10. I hope Bush is too busy to invade Cuba.

We don't need another bloody, disgusting, illegal, immoral invasion.

[Sailor for Warner]

11. Hes not going to invade cuba

We still stand by our 1962 agreement even though the other player technically no longer exists.

[dave_p]

26. Correct

And Cuba has other friends. The regime will remain as loyal to Raul as to Fidel. The US will then have to choose whether to destabilise a future post-Castro setup and alienate another generation, or to grow up and show Cubans that it represents something other than a predatory bully.

[roody]

29. Good!! I hope this State Dept.

document is declared morally bankrupt and to be trashed.
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rt/cuba/commission/2004/c12237.htm

[Cruzan]

27. I think Costco's a great place to shop, I don't know why you're ragging on it

Oh, wait. Never mind.

[UTUSN]

28. Welcome back, Sailor, and enjoy your leave. Don't worry, they're having Fidel STUFFED

and including with a DVD inside that will deliver six hour harangues. Just how other humans need to spend their existential span of life.

/s/ Gitmo, '70