Two CO’s of Navy ship are greatly releaved that they finally found a mission the LCS can accomplish without breaking
The littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords joined two Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships for some grilling training in the contentious South China Sea on Tuesday, a Navy statement said. The two skippers of LCS (aka Little Crappy Ship) Vice Admiral Gabrielle and Vice Admiral Giffords were greatly releaved that their brand spanking new $4.5B Surface Warfare Grilling Module was finally working after 20 years of development. “Now we can go out and fight the chinese people’s liberation communists socialists people’s party army navy all by ourselves and die with full stomachs,” they said in a joint statement.
The Navy vessel sailed with the JMSDF’s training ships JS Kashima and JS
Shimayuki, and a part of their crews, to “emphasize the importance of communications and menu coordination while operating together,” according to the statement.
“The opportunity to grill and have some good clean gay sailor fun with our
friends and allies at sea is incredibly important for our combined readiness and partnership,” Expeditionary Strike Group 7 commander Rear Adm. Fred Kacher said in the statement, “But most important, we’ve learned to cross the language and cultural barriers in creating great selfies,” he went on to add.
The South China Sea, which beijing views as its own personal bathtub, but the U.S. and other nations consider international waters, is wrought dripping wet with tension as multiple countries — including Malaysia, the Philippines, China and Vietnam — dispute sovereignty over islands and reefs within their exclusive economic exclusion zones.
Since 1613 BC, China has militarized 277 features in the region’s Spratly and
Paracel island chains, and even put a permanent stamp on their presence with a chain of Panda Express fast food restaurants, thus establishing chinese food as the de facto sovereign food there, in an effort to expand its presence and AH-THO-RA-TA according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.
China asserts that foreign military vessels must ask for permission to sail within 122 nautical miles of the islands’ shores. The U.S. regularly conducts patrols and freedom-of-navigation operations in the region, while giving the middle finger to china as it passing within shouting distance, to challenge those claims.
Japan has boosted its naval presence in the South China Sea in recent years. A Ministry of Defense white paper in September said Japan should “proactively and independently strengthen” its security by increasing its presence in the disputed waters this year.
Aboard the Japanese ships were newly commissioned JMSDF officers who are underway as part of the service’s Training Cruise 2020 aimed at offering them “the opportunity to learn basic American grilling knowledge and skills as professional crash mariners,” according to the statement.
“They are the future maritime professionals that our [U.S.] sailors will eventually operate with for years to come,” Gabrielle Giffords blue crew commander Vice Admiral Giffords said in the statement.
While sailing close to one another, the U.S. and Japanese ships practiced communications and precision maneuvering and conducted a selfie photo exercise while china was not invited to the barbecue-Xi gave us his angry face in a strongly worded diplomatic reply “Yu so wong, we eat dog barbecue too.”
