scotty
09-11-2006, 02:56 AM
We were at general quarters, darken ship was in effect. There was no moon and it was so dark that you couldn't even see your own hand held out in front of you. When, from the boiler room, there came a report of a scraping object on the ship's hull. It took, it seemed, a lifetime to get permission from ComCruDesPac to turn on a ship's search side lights and check out the reported noise. Training our manned 30Cal and 50Cal machine guns on the reported area, the bright search lights were turned on to show a single Cong placing what appeared to be plastic explosives on hull of the ship at water level. Reporting the found cong activities to ComCruDesPac, we were denied permission to blow this cong out of the water. We all topside could watch as this cong removed the plastics and slowly paddled out of search light reach. We were unable to respond to this threat of war, allowing him to seek out another target to destroy. Boy, were we really unable to respond to any threat of war without the dumb civilian controllers. =Scotty