Nuclear submarines are among the most strategically sound and inexpensive (in a relative sense) method of nuclear deterrence. Did you not go to primary school or something?

If we cant deploy a warship to fight wars, i'm not sure the use of it. :)

He has been trying for years but there has been a Congressional ban on bringing gitmo detainees to the US. His hands are tied.

Insane. These things will be sitting ducks in the case of a war with any state that has a few anti-ship missiles. We should send Hagel the link on Wikipedia to the Falklands war.

The Prisoner Camp at Guantanmo is not the same as the military base there. The odds of us closing that military base are about the same as me becoming queen of England. Closing the prison, i'm sure will be done at some point, but that base isnt going anywhere anytime soon no matter who is president.

Actually, from what I can tell Ohio-class replacement was on the chopping block until China started getting aggressive. This is part of the shift to the Pacific.

That is an incredibly imbecilic argument to make. Their goals and the role they play in the world are completely irrelevant to their crimes of vandalism of a unique and priceless historic site.

But we're not talking about organizations like Greenpeace. We're talking about Greenpeace. I'm sorry if you're a member or a groupie or whatever, but they screwed up big time here, violating their own beliefs in order to promote their own beliefs. That's far greater than an error in judgment, it shows a disdain for…

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I would be fascinated to see an interview with these people where they were afforded an opportunity to explain themselves. Are they merely staggeringly ignorant, and didn't know that what they were doing would cause irreparable damage? Did they know that they were causing damage, but thought their precious message…

Dammit Greenpeace. Stop being the PETA of the enviromental cause....

I hear PETA is envious.

This is really going to piss off the aliens. Saved the environment, started an intergalactic war. Thanks Greenpeace.

No, bad rapping is a redundant term whose origins are with our American cousins. Good rapping is a mythical concept that may used as a term to describe a rapping parody. Your welcome.

Dat CADPAT doe. You know, a pattern that actually fucking works compared to the useless UCP on the ACUs.

Fort Wainwright Air Base

My nephew is currently transitioning from flying predators to the C-17. A couple more months of training and he'll be flying them out of Charleston, SC. Got his AF pilot wings in 2010, but there weren't enough KC-135 or C-17 slots open at the time so he got stuck with predators. Deployed three times.