Aux Armes, Citoyens!
Hey, did anyone else happen to notice the French destroyer docked at the end of Atlantic Avenue this week? It’s a frigate called Forbin, according to Wikipedia.
Hey, did anyone else happen to notice the French destroyer docked at the end of Atlantic Avenue this week? It’s a frigate called Forbin, according to Wikipedia.
I definitely want to see those pictures. Post them to flickr or whatev and then give us links. My personal truce with the French may be about to end.
They left this am flying the French and Canadian flags. This was a slap at the US because the etiquette is to fly your national flag and the flag of the country you are visiting. One of two things happened: either it was deliberate or they didn’t know the difference between the Stars and Strips or the Maple Leaf, after all they are both in the Americas’
I have pictures if someone can tell me how to upload them to this site.
I saw them trying to surrender to the Staten Island Ferry.
The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale (National Navy) and often called La Royale[1] (Literally: The Royal Navy), is the maritime arm of the French military. It consists of a full range of vessels, from patrol boats to guided missile frigates, and includes one nuclear aircraft carrier and ten nuclear submarines (four of which are submarine-launched ballistic missile–capable (SNLEs)).
The motto of the French Navy is Honneur, Patrie, Valeur, Discipline (“Honour, Fatherland, Valour, Discipline”). These words are found on the deck of every ship of the Navy.
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“I had a couple of sailors from the Nimitz over for Thanksgiving when I was living in Hong Kong and they were in port.”
Who exactly was “in port”? Hopefully it wasn’t a dry dock.
I served on a destroyer.
I’ll drink to that!
Cheers and have an excellent weekend.
i pay my respects to the Snark
whose rhymes are always on the mark
there’s no need to win
when one can sip gin
on a sunny friday in the park
Excellent. It keeps me on my toes, and I’ll admit I’ve been slacking in that department lately.
There once was a poet names z
Who came gunning for Snarky with glee
Let the antics begin
May the best poet win
But right now I’m off for a martini