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    USS Saratoga shed her hefty 8" guns like a snake sloughing off old skin

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    The USS Saratoga shed her hefty 8" guns like a snake sloughing off old skin, ditching them in January 1942 at Pearl Harbor while limping toward Puget Sound, her hull nursing torpedo wounds. The repair pit stop doubled as a golden ticket for a jaw-dropping overhaul: a sleek starboard blister bulged out her frame; a minimalist pole mast shot skyward; her superstructure got a brutal trim; and she bristled with firepower—four twin 5"/38 mounts, tricked out with directors and radars, plus eight single 5"/38s and four 1.1" quads, elbowing out the outdated dozen 5"/25s. She got a tech upgrade too, flaunting SG surface search radar and SC-1 secondary air search radar, while swapping every last .50-cal for a fierce pack of 32 20mm guns. To keep her trim, they hacked 20 feet off her stack—a ruthless weight-loss hack for a ship reborn in battle-ready glory
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    Burnsies Mud March Madness

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    https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/mudmarch.htm

     

    War correspondent William Swinton wrote of the deteriorating conditions the army faced:

    The ground had gone from bad to worse, and now showed such a spectacle as might be presented by the elemental wrecks of another Deluge. An indescribable chaos of pontoons, vehicles, and artillery encumbered all the roads-supply wagons upset by the road-side, guns stalled in the mud, ammunition-trains mired by the way, and hundreds of horses and mules buried in the liquid muck. The army, in fact, was embargoed: it was no longer a question of how to go forward-it was a question of how to get back.2

    Burnside ordered the army to return to their original camps on January 22. The retreat began on the 23rd. Fortunately for the Federal troopers, the rain slowed significantly. Unfortunately, they had to return using the same roads they had destroyed during their advance. It would take some men until the 26 before they made it to their original camps on Stafford Heights.

    Exhausted, the Army of the Potomac hit rock bottom after the Mud March. So, too, did its commander, Ambrose Burnside.

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_March_(American_Civil_War)

     

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    Have you ever called someone that you only knew them by their alias?

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    In the SCA I knew people by their SCA name for 15 years, and where they lived by the SCA group.  I had no way to contact someone other than by calling the head of that local group and asking for the person by the SCA name.  Can't call information and ask for the phone number of William the Lucky out of Montagne du Roi.

     

    On another matter, I had to call "Jack's Powder Keg" to get powder for our Civil War artillery unit.  Needed to have the proper forms sent to me so I could buy powder.  Called the number, "Office of Judge John Somehingorother." (pause, pause) "Um....is this Jack's Powder Keg?  Or am I in serious trouble now?"  (laughter from the lady on the other end) "Yes, this is Jack's.  We get that a lot.  How may I help you?"

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    Incredible Catch, But OUCH!

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    3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    Hard to say if the netting helped or hurt, It looks like it propelled him back on his feet!🙄

     

    It looks to me as if the the way the net moved allowed his body to keep moving forward, but forced his left arm backwards.  One of the commentators mentioned that it looked like a subluxation of his elbow or shoulder.  Good call from a former player as the reports are saying he dislocated his shoulder.  Amazingly, he's only on a 10 day Injured Reserve.  At the moment, anyway.

     

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    Victor Robles was placed on the 10-day injured list on Monday with a dislocated left shoulder, after he slammed into the right-field netting area at Oracle Park and hung on for an unbelievable catch in the ninth inning the day before. 

     

     

    From the way it looked and how he reacted I was thinking he was out for half the season.  

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    Incredible Catch, But OUCH!

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    28 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

     

    He was focused and concentrating entirely on the ball, like all good fielders should. Just lost spatial awareness in his own park. It happens.

     

    Damn nice full run snag. I wonder if the netting prevented further injury.

     

    That game was at Oracle Park,  San Francisco, so an unfamiliar park.   I don't think it would have mattered,  though.  Running,  sprinting,  like that he would have easily overrun any warning track.

     

    Watching the replays of it during the game he might have been better off without the net.  

     

    I grabbed my phone to get the replay to show my wife  

     

     

     

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    I have a baseball question

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    There's no rule that requires a batter to drop the bat.  But an umpire,  at his discretion may rule that it caused interference on a close play.  

     

    The clip of the player jumping to celebrate her double was from a college women's softball game that I posted a couple of weeks ago. 

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    LRDG

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    As found on FB.

    Must have been fun for the driver if that Lewis Gun opened up.

     

     

    A posed close-up view of a Chevrolet truck and its three man crew in the Western Desert, 25 May 1942. The gunner beside the driver is manning a modified Browning Mk II aircraft machine gun, while the soldier in the back is ready with the Lewis gun. 

    The men belong to the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), formed in July 1940 under Major Ralph Bagnold as a reconnaissance unit. You can read more about the LRDG on our website here: https://bit.ly/3GVN3Tu

    Image: IWM (E 12380)

     

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    “Supposed To Be Dead…” Retracing A Wounded Artillerist From The Battle Of Fredericksburg

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    https://www.civilwarmed.org/wounded-artillerist/

     

    Wounded at Fredericksburg, this from the findings of the medical examination on his request for a medical discharge in 1865:

     

     “We find Private Cash has been unable to perform any considerable duty since the receipt of a shell wound…which fractured the left superior portion of the frontal bone and injured the cerebral mass of the corresponding side. About a square inch of the bone was lost and the cicatrix is large and much depressed and the pulsation of the brain plainly seen. He is now threatened with paralysis agitans. He is unfit in our opinion to perform duty in any department of the service.”

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