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Hey guys,
Heres some news you may find abit interesting and crazy at the same time. As alot of you know my son Jeremy is on his 5th Combat tour in Mid East as he does 1/2 his work onboard ship and the other in Forward operating areas on the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is an ABH2 and was just promoted as senior PO in charge of all yellow shirts on his carrier deck, not bad for a 23 year old kid :) Anyhow the crazy news is his Expeditionary force 5th Fleet has been attacked by pirates 6 x in as many weeks his ship has been attacked personally once by 2 pirate ships 30-40ft long with Aks and RPGs which is pretty funny actually because in my sons battle group is the USMC 24th MEU as well as over 40 difft ships his being an  LHA (Aircraft Carrier). Well anyhow they made short work of these pirates using one of their several CIWS 30mm Systems called Goalkeeper heres an example it fires about 100 rounds a second
they killed most of them but a few were taken prisoner onto his ship by helo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C2_hfrPkDg&feature=related
Also I included a pic of the pirate boats. Just thought you might be interested on how insane these pirates are.
*Ship in photo background is not his ship but one of his many escort ships that he has as a screen) this is my son's ship http://www.bluejacket.com/usn/images/sp/lm/lha4_nassau.jpg

Tim

Well Tim, you can't fix stupid. Anyone taking on a United States naval vessel can't be too bright.

Glad they got 'em.

hahaha Yup Mike not took on  just a Navy  vessel but an entire expeditionary Combat force of the US 5th Fleet :) with only what amounts to crap smaller than a commercial fishing boat lol too funny. Yup they gt them everytime. By the way Mike your 27 is looking pretty damn spiffy my friend, nice work.
Tim

Wow Tim..  I think it is funny to hear how these guys FAIL trying to attack a USNavy Ship, however, I feel bad for the US Sailor that has to take a stray bullet because these guys gonads are bigger then their brains..

I hope your son stays safe.

Trev