Hey all you beachcombers in England.....

[NOLA_Ken]

The Royal Navy seems to have lost a WW2 anti ship mine.......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...World-War-Two-Essex-coast-trying-blow-up.html

 

[Dano Sverige]

It'll give a good signal!

 

[dallgire]

wow thats a very very BIG item to just "lose"?

 

[Dano Sverige]

Not as big as Vietnam.

 

[dallgire]

Not as big as Vietnam.

hilarious! you bashing again Dano? Remember i can keep going and going and going!!

 

[Dano Sverige]

Just the facts ma'am...only the facts!

 

[Jeep]

C'mon guys, like you have never just misplaced a 2,000 pound mine

Why just the other day....................................

 

[dallgire]

I think the question is better stated as "Why couldn't the US either win nor lose the Vietnam War?"
Tactically, the US did quite well in a military sense-- winning the majority of the battles fought. America did not lose in that respect.
The defeat came as a political fall out. Bowing to anti-war pressure from home, the media damaged the war cause beyond repair, hence the early American withdrawal came in 1973. The Republic of Vietnam and the South Vietnameses did not want to fight or defend their country. They were invaded on April 30, 1975 in what is known as the Fall of Saigon.
If the United States would have stayed the course and fight, the war would have been a guaranteed victory stategically. A lesson learned.

 

[Dano Sverige]

You sound like the coach of the Indianapolis colts telling people in a bar how "technically" they didn't lose the super bowl!

Result stays the same: Vietnam 1 - 0 USA

 

[dallgire]

If you had the balls you would join the military! OVER HERE not in a country that is too afraid to fight and lets everyone else fight their fight for them!

 

[Dano Sverige]

You're joking right? Join YOUR military?
No mate, I like living way too much. Maybe when you start training your troops to be soldiers and not college jocks with big guns and a preference for seeing what it's like to be the the target at the end of a firing range, i'd think about it.

I can't find a thing wrong with a country that lets a bigger one fight and spend all it's money defending them. Seems like "common sense" to me?

 

[Silver Searcher]

You're joking right? Join YOUR military?
No mate, I like living way too much. Maybe when you start training your troops to be soldiers and not college jocks with big guns and a preference for seeing what it's like to be the the target at the end of a firing range, i'd think about it.

I can't find a thing wrong with a country that lets a bigger one fight and spend all it's money defending them. Seems like "common sense" to me?

Dano leave the slacked jawed locals alone

SS

 

[DBG]

You're joking right? Join YOUR military?
No mate, I like living way too much. Maybe when you start training your troops to be soldiers and not college jocks with big guns and a preference for seeing what it's like to be the the target at the end of a firing range, i'd think about it.

I can't find a thing wrong with a country that lets a bigger one fight and spend all it's money defending them. Seems like "common sense" to me?

Well Duddett, Ya just lost any respect you might have ever had of Mine. Hope you don't ever need our help.

 

[Dano Sverige]

Well that's totally ruined my year i must say!

 

[dgnbama]

Vietnam 1 - 0 USA


USA 1 - ENGLAND 0 dont forget who we whooped to win our freedom!

 

[Dano Sverige]

True mate, but that's the only time you've managed to win a war on your own...hell of a long time ago ain't it?

(And it's USA 2 - 0 England....you beat us at soccer in the 1950 world cup too.)

 

[dgnbama]

(And it's USA 2 - 0 England....you beat us at soccer in the 1950 world cup too.)



Soccer ( LOL ) the most boring sport I've ever watched, but i know you limey's really love it.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Vietnam 1 - 0 USA


USA 1 - ENGLAND 0 dont forget who we whooped to win our freedom!

Oh no, not that OLD potato Broken record or what

 

[dgnbama]

Oh no, not that OLD potato Broken record or what




SS whats the difference from what he said and what i said, oh wait i know I'm a (Yank).

How this turned from a story about a mine to a Bash Americans thread is beyond me, maybe you intellectual Brits should stop looking down your noses at us and realize that maybe we Yanks aren't as dumb as you assume.

 

[Produce Guy]

I remember earlier this year their was one found on the upper coast of Scotland and I herd on CNN their were 2 or 3 found in an iceberg floating around off the coast of Greenland.