Ok.........there are a varity of "versions" out there the "full version" includes......a) the battle between a wounded warrior and b) destroying the bad guy.........


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28film%29

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Ok.....this is a kind of doof post....

but........some few people may have read my stories going back through many, many distros........

and for some reason......... some few people like them....

Battleship.

People who served in the last war........

there are those who could walk the walk and then those who could only talk the talk...

My captain....gave me R and R ...after being in country for a mission.

He.........was one of those guys........that was........"old navy"..........to him that old world war II can was........a sportscar...........

The full.....unexpurgated film Battleship.........

yes it was against "aliens"..........

But.........they "took the time"..........in the unexpurgated version......the "uncut" version.........to "spend some time" on a lot of "small things"....like the burials......

the battle between the Wounded Warrior and the Alien....

like............."stand fast".............

I will not go into details.........but they have NEVER been recorded by the "popular media"....merely noted in a "ships log".....

"Engaged the enemy at 12:43 Zulu"....

Watch Battlship..........

We had come under fire from a captured 105 mm self propelled howitzer during operation MarketTime..

He was....."old school"...Zumwalt had decide that the politically whatever "land navy" needed to be roatated into "the fleet"........

Fortunately I was able to serve under both........old navy..........and "college navy"...

We took fire and a lot of us, including me, received steam explosion burns...but....

He did not wait...........he DID......think!!!....

and within a few minutes..........

"ALL HANDS......STAND TO!!! STAND TO!!!.....COMBAT STATIONS AGAIN......AGAIN.........COMBAT STATIONS AGAIN..."

I had never heard that command........

"We're going after those........"bastar#$"...

And with steam burns bandaged I was on the flying bridge.........signals behind me and the other Radarman.........

Thirty Knots into the river...don't remember the name of the thing....

"Men........Fire When You See The Whites of Their Eyes!" ...announced over the 1MC...

no radar...no calculations.....no........nothing..........

Gunners in their mounts doing what they were told they would never do.........

The Exec:........"Capn'....what about the sandbars?"

"Damn the fu##$%ng" sandbars.......full speed ahead....:

We were heeling at 38 degrees....the last time that somebody messaged me.......

I was on the flying bridge....

And he came over the 1MC...........

"Stand to.....you Bas$%#@S! Ba##s to the wall!........We fire.......when you see the bas#$@$s..."

We heeled at 42 degrees when the front two mounts explodes....

And nobody had to worry about that gun again...........

The last of the six packs.

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