U.S. Fourth Fleet Unnerves Latin Dictators
Posted on May 13th, 2008 In my own particular idiom Mr_Hooah
I don’t know much but I know I like it …
Stolen from another blog; clicky here. (Washington, D.C.) On April 24th, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughhead announced the re-establishment of the U.S. Fourth Fleet responsible for U.S. Navy ships, aircraft and submarines operating in the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Former Navy SEAL, Rear Adm. Joseph D. Kernan, the current Commander of Naval Special Warfare, will be assigned as Commander, U.S. Fourth Fleet.
Kernan is the first Navy SEAL to command a numbered fleet.
Maybe our resident retired Naval Officer would care to comment? Al? You there, Sir?
We’re back after a short hiatus to visit relatives in the ungodly city of Buffalo (where the Erie County dumptrucks still have snowplows installed)
My comment:
To Latin America Dictators:
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Al “Give me a fast ship for I intend to go in harm’s way” Czervic
Curiously enough, South America (I can’t vouch for Central America; I live in Uruguay) is marked by democractically-elected, if leftist, governments (I exclude Chavez from my list - the man is a dictator)…elected after they kicked out their military dictators, virtually all of whom were installed by the United States in the 1970s and who then proceeded to murder, rape, and torture their own citizens while running their national economies into the ground, although in ways beneficial to the U.S. and its national economy. The only people trembling right now are normal people with access to a newspaper, who (understandably) are afraid that the real aim of the U.S. is to usher in another era of repressive, neo-satellite state governments in the name of cheaper oil and food products.