Agree. It was such a frustration to play whack-a-mole games all day instead of taking decisive action against the pirates. We flew into Djibouti a few times for parts and pax transfers. I thought East Texas was hot. lol
My S-i-L's SeaBee Batt. deployed to Djibouti. He was happy to get peeled away from that when he was assigned a small Det. that redeployed to rural Uganda to dig wells and build roads. I have heard that Djibouti is like Haiti but without the humidity.
Mombasa was the inspiration for the ewww brother ewww meme video lol Thankfully that was as much Africa as I got exposed to other than watching it go by from a flight deck😂
I favor the same solutions that worked against the Barbary pirates by our young Navy and against the pirates in the Americas by the Royal Navy. Broadsides, sabers, the noose. Dresden-like economic sanctions might work too.
But it’s a government program, the goal to program it not to solve it, fighting just enough provided a foil, which so far is all we GWOT-ers did..
Was at camp lemonnier in 2012. I do think the 19th century methods are better
Agree. It was such a frustration to play whack-a-mole games all day instead of taking decisive action against the pirates. We flew into Djibouti a few times for parts and pax transfers. I thought East Texas was hot. lol
My S-i-L's SeaBee Batt. deployed to Djibouti. He was happy to get peeled away from that when he was assigned a small Det. that redeployed to rural Uganda to dig wells and build roads. I have heard that Djibouti is like Haiti but without the humidity.
Only in the summer when it gets hotter, but drier
Mombasa was the inspiration for the ewww brother ewww meme video lol Thankfully that was as much Africa as I got exposed to other than watching it go by from a flight deck😂
We were made of sterner stuff in the early 19th century.
Management of a problem instead of solutions did nothing to eradicate the pirate issue.
I favor the same solutions that worked against the Barbary pirates by our young Navy and against the pirates in the Americas by the Royal Navy. Broadsides, sabers, the noose. Dresden-like economic sanctions might work too.