And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Nimitz class aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and the guided missile destroyer Winston S. Churchill are replenished while underway and at sea by the oiler USNS Big Horn in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
They make it look easy. Try that on a Gearing class tin can, at night, in heavy weather. And after you secure from taking on fuel you go alongside an AE to take on ammunition. Of course by now the sun is starting to come up. It is amazing to watch the Navy conduct unreps (underway replenishment).
They make it look easy. Try that on a Gearing class tin can, at night, in heavy weather. And after you secure from taking on fuel you go alongside an AE to take on ammunition. Of course by now the sun is starting to come up. It is amazing to watch the Navy conduct unreps (underway replenishment).
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