Author Topic: Here's Why the Navy Is Deploying with a Bunch of Louisville Sluggers (Read 291 times)

rangerrebew · « **on:** March 16, 2019, 11:47:58 am »

Here's Why the Navy Is Deploying with a Bunch of Louisville Sluggers

15 Mar 2019
Military.com | By Gina Harkins

It's not often sailors get permission to take a baseball bat to a multimillion-dollar aircraft carrier.

But when the Navy's aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman sailed into the Arctic Circle for the first time in nearly three decades, its crew was ordered to do just that.
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The Truman sailed into the Arctic Circle on Oct. 19 to conduct operations in the Norwegian Sea. After years of operations in warmer climates, leaders had to think carefully about the gear they'd need to survive operations in the frigid conditions.

https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2019/03/15/heres-why-navy-deploying-bunch-louisville-sluggers.html

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2019, 11:54:42 am »

Good for breaking ice off of purt'near anything, without doing the damage a metal implement would.

But this shows how far the AGW stuff has pervaded....

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Rising temperatures are melting ice caps and opening sea lanes that weren't previously passable, Richardson said.

I'd hope he is aware of other Arctic forays in search of the NW passage, among other things, in a warmer weather cycle not so long ago (in geological terms, and even historical ones), like The Franklin Expedition .