khadaffy

so i recall being onboard the USS Luce (DDG-38) in the spring/early summer 1988 somewheres off the coast of Sicily , on our way to some well deserved liberty/shore leave in Palermo , and the only channel on Tv , the armed forces television service breaks into coverage to show a news report, (not sure if this footage ever made it back onto mainstream US TV, may have to do a google search or you tube someday to see if i can find it) but it was footage of "Colonel" khdaffy in full dress uniform , holding a sword over his head and Boarding a small Naval Vessel on Libyan state Tv , he was ceremoniously going to out to sea to confront and destroy the UNITED STATES NAVY.....as we had 3 battle groups ready to cross the line of death and conduct operations in the Gulf of Sidra, something we did annually under the CIC Ronald Reagen, just to let the world know that we CAN and WILL go anywhere we please, you could do that way back when we had a 500 plus ship peacetime NAVY.

and suddenly we all realized , as Rodney Dangerfield would say.."We're not going to Palermo, we're not going to Palermo" , and sure as shiite our liberty stop was delayed and we began steaming due south towards libya, although the mood on the ship was upbeat and excited, we desperately wanted a confrontation of some sorts to wipe these Carthaginians off the planet once and for all..........this exercise though went without incident, the libyan navy never really showed up, at least they never hit our radar, the USS America and her escorts sailed right off the coast of Tripoli and nothing happened.

A few weeks later the libyans were deemed responsible for bombing a disco in berlin and killed a few US soldier or Airmen, don't quote me on the timeline, shortly after that President Reagen ordered the air strikes that killed one of khadaffy kids and almost killed the "colonel" himself.

I will enjoy watching his demise in the coming days, i honestly hope the people get a hold of him and hang him in Green Square, it would be nice to that miscreants lifeless body hanging from a flagpole or cedar tree.

on a happier note, we did eventually make it to Palermo and drank cold bottles of Peroni and had bologna sandwiches on the finest bread i have ever enjoyed, so we can close the book on this chapter in the life of Gato as soon as wacky khadaffy is dead.