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I loved what the Captain said, "The whole crew will enjoy it"
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Va. Gaeta's ship returned from 80 days at sea on Wednesday.
When Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta kissed Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell today in Virginia Beach, a little bit of history was made.
As The Virginian-Pilot explains:
"It's a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings — one lucky sailor is chosen to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one. Today, for the first time [according to the Navy], the happily reunited couple was gay."
This is a case, The Associated Press says, of a Navy tradition catching up with repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that previously barred openly gay men and women from serving in the U.S. military.
Gaeta, who had just arrived home on the USS Oak Hill amphibious landing ship, won the first kiss honor in a raffle. According to the AP:
"Sailors and their loved ones bought $1 raffle tickets for the opportunity. Gaeta said she bought $50 of tickets ['fewer than many people buy,' she told the Virginian-Pilot]. The Navy said the money would be used to host a Christmas party for the children of sailors."I loved what the Captain said, "The whole crew will enjoy it"
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Sailors who took part in the Libya campaign will be among hundreds of Royal Navy personnel to learn they are being made redundant later this week.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15070911Sailors who took part in the Libya campaign will be among hundreds of Royal Navy... more
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On Monday, March 28, 2011 from The National Defense University in Washington, D.C. The President Obama address to the nation on Libya.On Monday, March 28, 2011 from The National Defense University in Washington, D.C. The... more
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Doctors are often confronted with less-than-savory aspects of the human condition. In the following medical paper, two doctors must solve the enigma of two sailors, one inflatable doll, and a communal case of the clap.
The skipper from a trawler, who had been 3 months at sea, sought advice for urethral discharge. His symptoms had lasted for two weeks. A urethral smear showed typical intracellular gram-negative diplococci, and a culture was positive for N gonorrhoeae. There had been no woman onboard the trawler; he denied homosexual contacts; and there was no doubt that the onset of the symptoms was more than two months after leaving the port.
With some hesitation, he told the story. A few days before onset of his symptoms, he had roused the engineer in his cabin during the night because of engine trouble. After the engineer had left his cabin, the skipper found an inflatable doll with artificial vagina in his bed, and he was tempted to have "intercourse" with the doll. His complaints started a few days after this episode. The engineer was examined, and was found to have gonorrhoea. He had observed a mild urethral discharge since they left port, but he had not been treated with antibiotics. He admitted to having ejaculated into the "vagina" of the doll just before the skipper called him, without washing the doll afterwards.
http://io9.com/#!holycrapwtf/5741196Doctors are often confronted with less-than-savory aspects of the human condition. In... more
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On Friday there were reports of two military servicemen (said to be two US Sailors) from the US were captured during combat. It has now been report by the BBC, the body of one of the men was found on Sunday and it is believed the second man is captured.
"The two vanished on Friday after driving out of a military base without escort for reasons that remain unclear. The Taliban has already said they killed one of the men in a gun battle and captured the other."-BBC
It is also stated in the article the Taliban say he is held in a safe place which is hidden, while tribal leaders convinced to keep the serviceman in Logar and not transfer him to the mainstream Taliban.
"A Colorado state legislator, Jim Kerr, told the Denver Post newspaper the dead sailor was his 30-year-old nephew, Justin McNeley."-BBCOn Friday there were reports of two military servicemen (said to be two US Sailors)... more
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Watson returns as 'Australia's newest hero' (ABC news)
Teen sailor Jessica Watson has completed a triumphant return to Sydney, with thousands of people on land and water giving her a hero's welcome.
After a 210-day journey of a lifetime, the 16-year-old from Queensland's Sunshine Coast has become the youngest person to sail around the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
Just two days shy of her 17th birthday, Watson sailed her 10-metre yacht Ella's Pink Lady up Sydney Harbour, the same spot she left from almost seven months ago.
Battling six-metre swells and a ripped main sail, the final leg of her journey took several hours longer than what was predicted.
She disembarked at the Opera House, made an emotional reunion with her parents, and then met the official welcome party including Mr Rudd and NSW Premier Kristina Keneally.
Mr Rudd told Watson she has done the nation proud.
"Jess, welcome back to dry land, welcome back home to Australia," he said.
"You may feel a little wobbly on your feet just now but in the eyes of all Australians you now stand tall as our newest Australian hero.
"At 16 years old, you are a hero for all young Australians, you are also a hero for all young Australian women, you do our nation proud. This is a great day for our country."
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/15/2900405.htm
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Australian teenager finishes round-world solo sail (Reuters)
Accompanied by a flotilla of supporters' boats, Jessica Watson, 16, sailed through the harbour entrance around 2 p.m. (0400 GMT), at the end of a controversial seven-month journey.
Watson is the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. She returned home three days short of her 17th birthday.
However, her voyage is not expected to qualify officially as a record because of issues about her route and young age. Her backers, including her family, have also come in for harsh criticism, with some experienced yachtsmen opposing the voyage.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd proclaimed her "Australia's newest hero" after thousands watched her yacht Ella's Pink Lady dock at the Sydney Opera House. Her arrival was delayed by choppy seas and a torn sail.
Watson said she was just an "ordinary girl who believed in her dream".
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64E0D920100515
http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100515&t=2&i=107560156&w=600&r=2010-05-15T062422Z_01_BTRE64E0HSW00_RTROPTP_0_AUSTRALIA-SAILING-----Around---the---Globe------
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Fresh HMAS Success scandal
Female sailor faces sex grope charge
Investigation launched into the incident
THE HMAS Success is embroiled in another alcohol-fuelled sex scandal after a female sailor allegedly went on a binge in Singapore.
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It is believed the woman went ashore during a port visit this month, got very drunk and began to publicly grope her male colleagues.
http://www.news.com.au/national/female-sailor-faces-sex-grope-charge/story-e6frfkvr-1225860392867Fresh HMAS Success scandal
Female sailor faces sex grope charge
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An extraordinary figure in American politics, the Liberal Lion of the Senate, has passed away. Edward (Ted) Kennedy is dead at 77. Kennedy was the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Kennedy's death marks the end of an era in American politics.An extraordinary figure in American politics, the Liberal Lion of the Senate, has... more
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A realistic look at how soldiers really live, even though they risk their lives day in and day out, we take a look and see how their living conditions really areA realistic look at how soldiers really live, even though they risk their lives day in... more
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Paul Opie, a sailor who cut holes in a shower block in order to film female shipmates has been jailed for two years.Paul Opie, a sailor who cut holes in a shower block in order to film female shipmates... more
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Photographs of actress and model Kelly Brook at the start of the London International Boat Show in London, England on Friday, January 9, 2009.Photographs of actress and model Kelly Brook at the start of the London International... more
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A Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp
Our Challenge to the World: Try to Prove Us Wrong
If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation;
Then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world’s paper and textiles; meeting all of the world’s transportation, industrial and home energy needs; simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time…
And that substance is—the same one that did it all before—
Cannabis Hemp…Marijuana!
Ships & Sailors
Ninety percent* of all ships’ sails (since before the Phoenicians, from at least the 5th century B.C. until long after the invention and commercialization of steam ships, mid-to late-19th century) were made from hemp.
*The other 10% were usually flax or minor fibers like ramie, sisal, jute, abaca, etc.
(Abel, Ernest, Marijuana: The First 12,000 Years, Plenum Press, 1980; Herodotus, Histories, 5th century B.C.; Frazier, Jack, The Marijuana Farmers, 1972; U.S. Agricultural Index, 1916-1982; USDA film, Hemp for Victory, 1942.)
The word “canvas”1 is the Dutch pronunciation (twice removed, from French and Latin) of the Greek word “Kannabis.”*
*Kannabis, of the (Hellenized) Mediterranean Basin Greek language, derived from the Persian and earlier Northern Semitics (Quanuba, Kanabosm, Cana?, Kanah?) which scholars have now traced back to the dawn of the 6,000-year-old Indo-Semitic European language family base of the Sumerians and Acadians. The early Sumerian/Babylonian word K(a)N(a)B(a), or Q(a)N(a)B(a) is one of man’s longest surviving root words.1 (KN means cane and B means two, two reeds or two sexes.)
In addition to canvas sails, until this century virtually all of the rigging, anchor ropes, cargo nets, fishing nets, flags, shrouds, and oakum (the main protection for ships against salt water, used as a sealant between the outer and inner hull of ships) were made from the stalk of the marijuana plant.
Even the sailors’ clothing, right down to the stitching in the seamen’s rope-soled and (sometimes) “canvas” shoes, was crafted from cannabis.*
*An average cargo, clipper, whaler, or naval ship of the line, in the 16th, 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries carried 50 to 100 tons of cannabis hemp rigging, not to mention the sails, nets, etc., and needed it all replaced every year or two, due to salt rot. (Ask the U.S. Naval Academy, or see the construction of the USS Constitution, a.k.a. “Old Ironsides,” Boston Harbor.)
(Abel, Ernest, Marijuana, The First 12,000 Years, Plenum Press, 1980; Ency. Britannica; Magoun, Alexander, The Frigate Constitution, 1928; USDA film Hemp for Victory, 1942.)
Additionally, the ships’ charts, maps, logs, and Bibles were made from paper containing hemp fiber from the time of Columbus (15th century) until the early 1900s in the Western European/American World, and by the Chinese from the 1st century A.D. on. Hemp paper lasted 50 to 100 times longer than most preparations of papyrus, and was a hundred times easier and cheaper to make.
Incredibly, it cost more for a ship’s hempen sails, ropes, etc. than it did to build the wooden parts.
Nor was hemp use restricted to the briny deep…A Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp
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Great expectations and amazing strength and stamina follow these great athletes on the road to gold.
Great expectations and amazing strength and stamina follow these great athletes on the... more
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Captain Sig Hansen and his "greenhorn" Jake Anderson of "Deadliest Catch" fess up to their true feelings about women on fishing boats.Captain Sig Hansen and his "greenhorn" Jake Anderson of "Deadliest... more
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Fifteen British military personnel detained in Iran for nearly two weeks are released by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
An Iranian diplomat in London says the 15 would be handed over to the British Embassy in Tehran.Fifteen British military personnel detained in Iran for nearly two weeks are released... more
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"I had just graduated from high school when my older brother asked me to embark on a trans-Atlantic passage in his 30' foot sailing boat." Episode I of II. Join the Haskell brothers on board the Molly Hatchet as they set sail from Virginia to Portugal. "I had just graduated from high school when my older brother asked me to embark... more
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