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<\/p>\nSeveral of us are dismayed by the antics of the Government we once served, attempting to do so with honor. Oh well, this is Marlow’s take on other events in the extraordinary (and banal) events in Your Nations Capital.This one refers to the Swift Greyhounds of The Fleet, or what is better known as Tin Cans.<\/p>\n
Bless all that go down to the sea in Ships.<\/p>\n
– Vic<\/p>\n
Marlow: “Well, ain\u2019t our national swamp a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere . . . and light years away from justice.<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s highlight came late for me — the utter Cover the Brass\u2019s Asses collapse of multiple US Navy investigations of two fatal ship collisions in the Western Pacific.<\/p>\n
The brass strove nonstop to draw a line between themselves and the deployed sailors who sailed aboard those WESTPAC tin cans. But these double-speaking Odysseuses were not that far from those distant soggy bottom sailors. With every convoluted, circuitous, and at times all-together baffling investigatory and court martial screw up, they blurred the very lines they strove to define.<\/p>\n
Consistent malefaction, ambiguity and contradiction marked the brass\u2019s repeated deployments in the troubled waters of undue command influence. They openly bemoaned the negligence and guiltiness of the ships\u2019 company for these sailors\u2019 loss.<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s press release \u201cfare-thee-well\u201d song to these incidents at sea were once again full of more double speak, reframings towards the grieving families and white washing of their own culpability. It was a poor disguise that couldn\u2019t fool a blind man to their roles and actions. They must think they can hide their own guilt in plain sight with this abject PR bullshit.<\/p>\n
Ah the paradoxes of conscious, deliberate double-facedness in their speaking in circles . . . on the one hand there is a black comic element to these characters, but on the other if we look deeper we may see that they tried to fix what they had let become FUBAR before the collisions. Still I can\u2019t permit myself a sympathetic reading of these men. Their cunning acts were of poor quality, making them even more overtly fallible and culpable.<\/p>\n
Will any of us remember these dead sailors five years from now? I will. We all should. So in their memory . . .<\/p>\n
Tin Cans of Constant Sorrow<\/p>\n
We\u2019re tin cans of constant sorrow
\nOur sailors\u2019ve seen trouble all their days
\nWe bid farewell to old Yokosuka
\nThe place where we were sent and based
\nThe place where we were sent and based<\/p>\n
For many long years we\u2019ve seen troubles
\nLittle pleasures have we found
\nFor in this WESTPAC world we\u2019re bound to scramble
\nWe have no DC friends to help us now
\nWe have no DC friends to help us now<\/p>\n
[Refrain]<\/p>\n
Well we\u2019re tin cans, we\u2019re just tin cans
\nWe\u2019re tin cans of constant sorrow
\nWe\u2019re tin cans, we\u2019re tin cans
\nMany of our sailors have no tomorrow
\nThey\u2019ve seen the last troubles of their days<\/p>\n
Is this the time for goodbyes to our sailors
\nWe don\u2019t think we\u2019ll see them again
\nFor we\u2019re bound to sail these WESTPAC waters
\nPerhaps we\u2019ll sink under a coming Chinese missile rain
\nPerhaps we\u2019ll sink under a coming Chinese missile rain<\/p>\n
[Refrain]<\/p>\n
Well we\u2019re tin cans, we\u2019re just tin cans
\nWe\u2019re tin cans of constant sorrow
\nWe\u2019re tin cans, we\u2019re tin cans
\nMany of our sailors have no tomorrow
\nThey\u2019ve seen the last troubles of their days<\/p>\n
War will bury us in some deep ocean valley
\nFor many years we may lay
\nWhen the world learns to love another
\nWhile we and ours are sleeping cold in our grave
\nWe\u2019re sleeping cold in our watery grave
\nWe\u2019re sleeping cold in our watery grave<\/p>\n
[Refrain]<\/p>\n
Well we\u2019re tin cans, we\u2019re just tin cans
\nWe\u2019re tin cans of constant sorrow
\nWe\u2019re tin cans, we\u2019re tin cans
\nMany of our sailors have no tomorrow
\nThey\u2019ve seen the last troubles of their days<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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\nUSS MCCAIN and her lost crew<\/p>\n
See the source image
\nSee the source image
\nUSS FITZGERALD and her lost crew<\/p>\n
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