by Roving Reporter, ©2023
(Oct. 24, 2023) — “Theme Song to the Adventures of Robin Hood” (1:16)
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. Today’s featured guest is our favorite General who brought along his chalkboard on wheels. Welcome to ‘Pulse,’ General. Glad you could make it.”
“So am I, and thank you for the invite. I know I was scheduled to talk about the State of Illinois and its destructive laws, but I’d rather talk about who the nut was who sent two of our carrier battle groups to that pond near the Middle East. Talk about sending ships into harm’s way; this is nuts. The carriers should get the heck back into the Atlantic posthaste, is what they need to do.”
“Explain away.”
“Here, I’ll draw you a map of the Mediterranean Sea*. At the eastern end are Muslim countries and to the south are Muslim countries. Figure each of these countries hate Western Civilization with a passion, okay? Maybe Egypt won’t launch missiles at the carriers, but Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco hate the Great Satan – that would be the USA — with a passion, as do Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and the Saudis.”
“I like your map. Easy to understand; pretty hard to hide two carriers, and a heck of a lot of places to launch missiles from, or drones.”
“Let me tell you something: the biggest prize the enemy could achieve on the battlefield, with the exception of conquering the enemy’s capital, would be to sink a carrier.”
“And we have two over there.”
“As I said, big mistake. This is the age of satellites and cruise missiles, of drones and pinpoint accuracy, so the only reason to have two carriers over there is to antagonize the Muslims. I say leave Israel alone; let them wipe out Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Ayatollahs of Iran, and cheer them on. If I were Israel, I wouldn’t trust our Navy since our military has been compromised by Muslims since Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, came on the scene in 2009.”
“Does that mean what I think it means?”
“You were in the military; of course it means what you think it means. It means there aren’t any secrets anymore, that’s what. Iran will know how many knots our carriers are doing and in what direction; that’s what it means. And they’ll even know where the subs are that are shadowing the carriers. Taking out a sub is equal to a carrier sinking if you can get the sub to surface.”
“How will the bad guys sink our carriers? Please answer after this quick break.”
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“And we’re back with our General who will tell us how the bad guys will attempt to sink one of our carriers.”
“All they need is to sink one flattop. They’ll use multiple drones carrying a big punch, maybe a couple of pounds of Semtex, a plastic explosive that can blow up a bus, leaving it twisted as a pretzel. Launch a hundred of them from all the countries at once skimming the sea at night. Big bang. Not to make a pun, but chalk up one carrier for the bad guys.”
“And they’ll never know what hit them, or from where.”
“But they’ll have it all on tape, so they’ll run with it on the news at sunrise. Big headlines: 5,000 sailors lost at sea; America’s premier carrier sunk by a two-bit country. Heck, we bring them over and educate them at the University of Chicago to learn electronics and physics; what do you expect?”
“I guess it’s too much to expect honesty and respect.”
“These people have been fighting Western Civilization for 1,600 years; what makes you think they’ll stop now?”
“Nothing, that’s for sure.”
“Yes, unfortunately true. But at the same time, our sailors would spend their time better by rounding up the DOJ and FBI political goon-lawbreakers, starting with Merrick Garland.”
“Couldn’t agree more. Well, I see our time has expired and so this is your Roving Reporter, along with our favorite General, who can draw a pretty darn good map, wishing all of you a goodnight: Goodnight.
“Good show. I’ll tell you this, though: if I were on one of those carriers, I’d get right with the Lord really quick. Burger time: my treat.”
[*Mediterranean Sea: In Navy seaman’s parlance, the ‘Med’ is often referred to as the ‘bathtub.’]
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Roving Reporter
Good day, General _______, appreciated your commentary. I too was a 20 years warrior and although I agree with your premise for the most part, may I remind you that each of the carrier forces, Eisenhower and Ford, are not simply ships alone at sea. There are cruisers and destroyers surrounding them with specialized defensive weapons like the Aegis Defensive Systems on board to protect the carriers from air and surface water threats. As for submarines, we have them also, with technologically advanced warfare weapons.
My concern in this deployment is that any attack on any US vessel would demand a response. The Captain of each ship has a first responsibility to protect his/her ship.
I would also suggest that one of those task forces be stationed south of the Red Sea and beyond the Gulf of Aden in that general area would force be a second front for our potential enemies to consider.
I think we both know that is show of force in the Med is there to deter harm on Americans in the region and in reality a deterrence to other nations that would want to do harm to US interests abroad.
The Bismarck was incapacitated by a couple of biplanes…which led to its destruction.
So much for modern technology.