Before the IBUs

The picture is of boats of PSU 303 which was teamed with MIUWU-108 in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

And the boats could fly!

Not good

Hope there's more to this story:

PORTLAND, Ore.— An Oregon congressman is calling for an investigation into military recruiting practices after the Army signed up an autistic teen for one of its most dangerous jobs.

Jared Guinther of Portland, Ore., enlisted to be a cavalry scout — even though he didn’t realize at first that there was a war in Iraq.

His parents said the Army recruiters aggressively pursued the high school senior, offering him a $4,000 signing bonus and $67,000 for college.

Brenda Guinther said she called Army recruiters and explained that her son was autistic, but they laughed her off. She told the Oregonian newspaper that a recruiter’s supervisor told her that her son “doesn’t need his mommy to make his decisions for him.”

Whaddaya think, Smash?

This kind of looks like fun, doesn't it?

The mission of IBU is to provide a rapidly deployable, armed, small-craft capability with precise navigation to support expeditionary forces in littoral regions.

These aluminum-hull boats are armed with two to three .50 caliber machine guns, MK 19 grenade launchers and M-16 machine guns. IBUs can reach speeds of more than 30 knots and are capable of making 360-degree turns within seconds, among other capabilities.

Not NECC, nor even SEAL SBS support, but good clean fun. And at 30 knots in shallow water, even Chap and his boys might have a hard time getting a firing solution ;-)

Buzz checking in for a test....

Hey campers. Nice site Mrs GH.

Heh. Multiple independent strikes.

It's hard enough getting two of us to show up in the first place, and now we're talking in stereo...

Test Of Underwater Comms

Testing to see if this works for submariners. I think it's great that we're starting this during National Military Appreciation Month -- although it seems as though it isn't actually, officially, National Military Appreciation Month.