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Beat me to it, but I love this picture so much I can't help but post it.

BKITU The idea is that they won't go anywhere themselves, but they'll be able to keep Jets from getting through.

BKITU: The idea is that they won't go anywhere themselves, but they'll be able to keep Jets from getting through.

I seem to recall we tried this back in 03. The dolphins were released and decided to bugger off.

Wait, was that an Onion article?

Dolphins with fricken lasers attached to their heads!!!

Flipper approves

Approves

Hopefully they're not trained by this guy.

triggering an unprecedented alliance between Iran and Japan

Wouldn't this be more effective?

I swear they've rolled out this same exact article every single time we've stacked up carrier groups in the Gulf since farking 1990.
At this point, I'm ready to chalk it up to being as close to actual fact as anything Pravda has ever printed.

Stile4aly: I seem to recall we tried this back in 03. The dolphins were released and decided to bugger off.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

This is why we give them all the fish.

Bathia_Mapes: [Day of the Dolphin Image]

I'd forgotten about that film.

And I bet George wished he could've too.

So long Iran, and thanks for all the fish!

annitabonghit: Hopefully they're not trained by this guy.

Or this guy!

Seth'n'Spectrum: Wait, was that an Onion article?

ringersol: I swear they've rolled out this same exact article every single time we've stacked up carrier groups in the Gulf since farking 1990.
At this point, I'm ready to chalk it up to being as close to actual fact as anything Pravda has ever printed.

Nope, it's a real thing (new window).

Alternatively the US could mind its own goddamn business for once and not provide provocation for closing the Straight.

generallyso: Alternatively the US could mind its own goddamn business for once and not provide provocation for closing the Straight.

Well that's not going to happen.

ringersol: I swear they've rolled out this same exact article every single time we've stacked up carrier groups in the Gulf since farking 1990.
At this point, I'm ready to chalk it up to being as close to actual fact as anything Pravda has ever printed.

I deployed on an amphib during the first part of OEF (before it turned into OIF). We had a dive team which consisted of human divers and dolphins.

Old news is old.

I don't think Iran will be allowed to close the strait - not by the US, but by its oil-exporting neighbors who also use the waterway. Saudi Arabia has enough money to do pretty much anything it wants, and it wants to keep exporting its oil.

LineNoise: generallyso: Alternatively the US could mind its own goddamn business for once and not provide provocation for closing the Straight.

They are minding their own business. freedom of the seas and all that.

You've never been in the Arabian Gulf, have you?

This may explain the earlier link about the prevalence of rape in the military.

generallyso: Alternatively the US could mind its own goddamn business for once and not provide provocation for closing the Straight.

Not gonna happen. Israel has pretty much ordered the US to keep provoking Iran.

jaytkay: generallyso: Alternatively the US could mind its own goddamn business for once and not provide provocation for closing the Straight.

Not gonna happen. Israel has pretty much ordered the US to keep provoking Iran.

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US Captain: If you will not let us pass into the straits, we shall take your by ship by force!

Iranian Captain: You don't frighten us, American pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Obama-president, you and all your silly American kaniggets. Thppppt!

US XO: What a strange person.

US Captain: Now look here, my good man!

Iranian Captain: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough whopper! I fart in your general direction! You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of eldeberries.

US XO: Is there someone else up there we could talk to?

Iranian Captain: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

nihilspawn: jaytkay: generallyso: Alternatively the US could mind its own goddamn business for once and not provide provocation for closing the Straight.

Not gonna happen. Israel has pretty much ordered the US to keep provoking Iran.

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Really? Israel has been playing this game since the 70s.

Israel: We're gonna nuke somebody

US: NO DON'T!

Israel: We have to. Unless you have a plan short of nuking them. Now where's that big red button?

US: NO DON'T! We'll take care of it!!!

Israel: K THNX lol sucker

Meh, old news.

Link (new window)

very old, the Navy has used Dolphins since Vietnam.

reporting for duty

If I was a dolphin, I'd be a conscientious objector. Ain't no Iranian ever called me "fish."

I think we've got it backwards...we'll need Iran's help against the dolphins soon enough.

Osomatic: You laugh, but my stepfather has some gruesome stories about the stuff he saw in the Marines during Vietnam. He doesn't exactly have bad dreams about them, but let's just say he's not a fan of dolphins.

Did a dolphin rape your stepfather? This is a safe place.