On Monday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Special Enforcement Bureau received a call regarding a suspicious device floating in the water. A boater spotted the torpedo off the coast of Dana Point, according to the Orange County Register.
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I can just see the Navy guys muttering "Will you clowns please get the fuck out of our way so we can do our damned jobs?" and then the Sheriffs Department guys going "Oh hell yeah, we're going to put this sucker in our brand new replacement bomb disposal truck, haul it into the middle of the city and blow it up."
"Torpedo floating"? Idiots, all of them. -sammy
ReplyDeleteThe article is wrong. They won't dispose of it. It's a practice torpedo. They float after they are done. It will be reused. They are intended to be recovered, hence the bright markings.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that didn't make any sense to me. I wonder if it was the media screwing up a story (typical) or the Navy trying to calm everybody down with a fib.
DeleteThose are not mutually exclusive terms, Elmo. Today's media is incompetent and coupled with the fact that they will always make everything sound worse than it really is, the Navy would have to do that.
DeleteTWR-3 Ballast Point, yep we had a runaway .MK-37. It was doing it's thing were at full throttle then MK-37 would stop turn around and run top speed in another direction. This was on the surface so we just tried to keep up.
DeleteWhich does beg the question, why didn’t they recover before now?
ReplyDeleteAny number of malfunctions: depth control, ballast failed to vent, damaged steering control, etc...
DeleteWhen working for a newspaper in NE Texas I got a call from a local constable concerning “one of them Scud missiles” in the yard of a junk store. The constable said he had contacted Fort Sill, and an EOD team had been scheduled. The newspaper photographer and I went to the Scud site and looked around, eventually finding a roughly two-foot-long, pointed, OD painted device with wires at one end. I said it looked like a remote sensor used in Vietnam. Certainly not a Scud. Later that day I called EOD at Fort Sill and mentioned “some dufus” who reported a Scud. The EOD guy laughed and said, “Yeah, it’s a jungle penetrator remote sensor.” No telling how many people did not call in a Scud finding.
ReplyDeleteWtf….Scuds are over 30 ft long and nearly 2’ ft in diameter…
ReplyDeleteSounds about like an Honest John.
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