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America Obliterates Half Of Iran's Navy In 8 Hours! - Operation Praying Mantis
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4077465" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>He left out the best part, IMHO, which is actually in Hornfischer's <em>Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors</em> (about the Battle Off Samar, in which the original USS Samuel B. Roberts fought). After the Sammy B got hit by the Iranian mine, a sailor singlehandedly got the auxiliary generator going, doing a job that normally took three sailors, including what is called a "suicide start," and kept the electricity going to power the lights and pumps.</p><p></p><p>The guy who kept the pumps running was a 31 year old Petty Officer who'd never been to the Navy's school to learn the advanced techniques he needed to know to keep the pumps running. When the skipper asked him about it afterward, he replied (as related by Hornfischer):</p><p></p><p>The finest tradition of the Navy, indeed. As Hornfischer put it,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4077465, member: 26737"] He left out the best part, IMHO, which is actually in Hornfischer's [I]Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors[/I] (about the Battle Off Samar, in which the original USS Samuel B. Roberts fought). After the Sammy B got hit by the Iranian mine, a sailor singlehandedly got the auxiliary generator going, doing a job that normally took three sailors, including what is called a "suicide start," and kept the electricity going to power the lights and pumps. The guy who kept the pumps running was a 31 year old Petty Officer who'd never been to the Navy's school to learn the advanced techniques he needed to know to keep the pumps running. When the skipper asked him about it afterward, he replied (as related by Hornfischer): The finest tradition of the Navy, indeed. As Hornfischer put it, [/QUOTE]
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