Voice from the Noise: Catch-n-Release And Catch Again

700 On the Move

Vs-31 CAG Aircraft 700 is shot down the cat of the USS GW Washington, circa 2006. VS-31's final deployment before being decommissioned was onboard the USS Washington. The NG on the tail is the give away. Airwings attached to West coast aircraft Carriers are assigned the lead nemonic of "N" while those on the Atlantic are given "A". The 700 or double nuts aircraft in each aircraft is typically given special paint over and above that customary for a squadron aircraft and is usually offered to the Air Wing Commander. This aircraft is sporting an AWW-13 Weapons Data Link pod on that starboard wing pylon. This pod us used to relay video from an inflight missile (Maverick or SLAM-ER) or controls from the aircraft to the missile. There is an actual joystick at the Co-Pilot station that allows the operator at that station to actually fly the missle while it is in flight.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Catch-n-Release And Catch Again

I complained in an earlier posting about the Catch-n-Release that this Administration has been engaged in with the terrorists detainee's at GITMO. Some of those released well, have turned up once again in the fight against the United States. Here is another example:

By Asif Shahzad ASSOCIATED PRESS

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | A terrorism suspect recently detained in Pakistan is the same Swedish national once held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, police said Monday. He and others in his group were reportedly trying to join al Qaeda in the country's lawless tribal areas.

The rest of the story here:

Oh yeah, great program we got going there. I don't get it, when they are released are they not put under at least a house arrest? I would have thought they would be put into yet another prison just in a different country? I guess the jokes on me because this makes no sense, letting the go so they can just come back on us.

Why don't we make them all happy and simply put them on a nice converted prison barge (like one of those super oil tankers convert the tanks into holding cells), tell no one we have them and put that thing to sea. Stay out beyond the 200 mile limit, service it at sea and fly new terrorists out there when we catch them. And if the thing fills up or they get unruly, well just open the flood gates, flush them all out, let the marine life have them.

Doing our part for the environment.

BT: Jimmy T sends.