Aircraft Carrier Truman
 

The following picture is off Jacksonville FL. One of my team A&E (ammo and explosive) trucks took this picture. Their son serves on the Truman. She was able to capture the lighting strike as it happened. One in a million shot for sure. Enjoy!
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q.../75_Strike.jpg

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Lovely pic! :D

Very fortuitous, great photo. If someone was trying to take a picture of a lightning strike on purpose, it's easy to do: just leave your shutter open until the strike and then close it. The shutter there was only open for 1/8 second so the person was either very lucky or used some other wizardry. Thanks for posting AVG. :up:

They launched one of those rockets with a copper cable attached.

Did it land on the Carrier or somewhere behind it? Quick, somebody find a plane nicknamed Lightning make a joke out of it.

Looks like an UFO trying to zap the carrier with a lightning bolt. The dirty grey men are at it again...

That's a keeper!! Very cool pic!!! Thanx AVGWarhawk:up:

Maybe this is what he ment by shock and awe:hmm:

Who's 'he'?

Edit: I found it; The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States in 1996.

Why I believe it was G. Bush.

Wrong! He may have used the term but I don't believe he stated it was a strategy or tactic.

You can of course show me otherwise.

Was it Rumsfeld? I'm not really sure. Thats right it was G Bush who said Mission accomplished or was that someone else? Whatever the case, I believe Bush to be standing around when this was thrown out on the media circus.

What an awesome photo! Do you have a large resoultion version that might be used as wallpaper? If so, would you mind sharing it? I'd love to have that as my wallpaper!:rock::up:

Yes I do. PM me with your email and I will send it over

Please stay on topic: 'shock and awe'.

As a moderator you should know changing the quote is out of bounds.

Well sir, you have changed you original post for "wrong you can show me otherwise" toTherefore, he may have stated this but I did not claim it was for strategy or tactic. You somehow read this into my statement of "This is what he ment by shock and awe." Apparently you did know who 'he' was or am I wrong on this account? At any rate, I'm not quite certain what you are getting at from a joking statement I posted relating to shock and awe.

Ah ha....I do not moderate this forum. I leave my moderator hat at the door when I enter this forum. I have not authority here to do a thing other than post. ;) BTW, you just changed your again.

Well, you are misplacing my comment, be that as it may. You have yet to show me where GWB, Don Rumsfeld or anyone in the US military establishment used the term 'shock and awe' when it came to Iraq strategy.

I certainly remember hearing it from the media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe

Now if you read my post I said "I believe it was G Bush" I did not emphatically state it was G Bush that said this statement. Hence by response on Rumsfeld with question mark. Be that as it may....... In all reality "he" could be anyone. Hence your question, 'Who is he?" My response, "I believe G Bush". The word "believe" meaning I'm not sure. But instead of setting the record straight that you do not BELIEVE he said this or anyone else other than the media without some support information leads me to wonder just what you are after:hmm:

Ok, the 'he' was the media guy...... Sound good?

I'm just after the truth. I suspect you are as well. Too many times what we hear or read that is attached to those who didn't say or do what the media reports. I understand how you or anyone else may have thought the 'shock and awe' phrase could have been attributed to GWB, Don Rumsfeld or the US military establishment. As we know now none of those people or entities had anything to do with it. It came from a 1996 report which sounded 'sexy' to the media (see blitz krieg).

I appreciate your honesty in the end and hope that in the future you won't spread mis/dis-information based on your political stand or the stand of the media.

Cheers
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What kind of comment is that.....? Once again, I said, "I believe G Bush" I did not emphatically state it was G Bush. What part of that did you not understand? I would appreciate if you would read what is written and not read into it what you want. Spread of mis/dis-information good Lord. Arrogance becomes you! If you are after the truth then you would simply state that G Bush was incorrect, it was media type deal that brought it into focus. Yet we have several posts to get to the truth. I wonder if I said, I believe is was Daffy Duck'? How many posts to get to the truth? One can only guess.