c62, thanks dude, never served but i've paid attention to the field.

jack, next time i tell you to just stop-STOP. if i challenge something or make a correction on something serious, i'd be a dumb asshole if i wasn't right.

it's more dignified just to walk away being wrong about something than waste the amount of energy you did when i said i wasn't reading anything else and to drop it. pride's a bitch, you didn't want to lose an argument so you kept posting and keeping the thread near the top of the cage so you'd end up being wrong in front of a larger audience. silly but understandable.

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When we used to pull into ports in third world countries all the fishermen would throw their old nets over the side in front of us(we couldn't stop in time) knowing full well we would tear them up and then pay to replace them. The gulf of Thailand is full of fishing nets attached to buoys that fisherman leave out there and then return to haul them in weeks later. It can be a pain in the ass trying to conduct flight ops(keep the ship pointed into the wind) and dodge fishing nets. If there is an incident with a foriegn ship, they will ususally try to inflate the damages to get some free repairs paid/fixed.

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Yes, you have a very good fundamental-understanding of the topic. Your shit was dead on, almost scary, were you in? Where'd you get all that info?

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