Some idiot said aloud that the French had sent a team of thirty doctors to the Pacific and that Bush sent three aircraft carriers and asked what good that would do. "What are they going to do? Blow them up?"
I shot back, "Thirty sad worn out gynocologists from the whorehouses of Paris. Big deal. School time. Each of those aircraft carriers carris about 5500 men and every single one of them has been trained in first aid, damage control, rescue operations, riot control. and a lot of other things otherwise they would not have even graduated from boot camp. The carriers themselves are nuclear which means they can stay on station indefinitely. They create enough excess power to be able to light a small city that can be piped ashore. They have aircraft that can be used for resupply and moving patients. They have a comprehensive hospital on board with a number of MDs and many trained corpsmen. We have eleven of these ships. Your beloved France has none. President Bush wanted to send some of the best we have to help out so he gave the job to the United States Navy."
You could have heard a pin drop and a woman pushing fifty approached me. "Thank you," she said. "I thought my son was a disappointment because he didn't want to go to college and joined the Navy. You have made me proud of him."
Sometimes you just have to speak out.
Best thing I have read in months!
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