Correct. Excellent writeup of that whole Telltale Games shitshow.

36, taught that in Florida of all places. My history teachers must have been pretty good. Uh, for Florida, anyways.

The article is playing fast and loose as well.

The US Navy has dispatched a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East.

The posting was revealed by the military in an announcement late on Sunday. The unusual revelation regarding the location of the ship, which can launch nuclear missiles

SSGNs are incapable of launching the missiles the article is thinking of. I suppose one could outfit the boat with the nuclear TLAM-D, but i doubt the Navy would bother.

And there’s no chance in hell an SSBN, the actual sub with SLBMs on it, is going to surface anywhere and pop open a missile hatch (the missiles are launched submerged).

Article is bunk, a GN showed up somewhere and is ready to put tomahawks through windows, business as usual for one of those boats. Show of force? Yes? Show of nuclear warhead force? No.

Sauce - Submariner.

Also sub fun fact, the 4 SSGNs in the US Navy are the Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Georgia. They have a building in Bangor for them, lovingly called the OMFG building.

You don’t have to be on social media to get a good job.

True. Occasionally stuff breaks through that’s just easy. ADCAP, TEER, AN/UYK-43… wait, maybe not that one.

Everything in the military that is an initialism still gets pronounced like it’s an acronym, so I wonder if ATACMS comes out to “attack 'ems”?

I’m American, but I understand the slang meaning of nonce, and yeah… it’s a nonce term.

Some were arrested by South Korean police, so they will likely face trials by South Korean courts. If we break laws in foreign countries, we’re still subject to punishment under them. Service members can and frequently are also held to account under the UCMJ and will likely have court martial as well. Have seen plenty of people get arrested for myriad crimes, and then get slapped with an NJP/court martial on top of it.

You’re gonna love Washington, it’s a beautiful state!

yf-1234? That’s dumb, r-134a rolls off the tongue. Also, my tinfoil hat agrees with you.

Oh shit, they made a movie??

Stephanie Keletor?