The Anglo-French carrier force that sank USS Gettysburg in the North Sea.
British sappers cut the barrier interlocks at Gate 2 and 1,150 American airmen are interned in their own base housing. Paris activates Article 42.7. A second Vanguard leaves Faslane in the dark.
The United States Navy has lost the cruiser Gettysburg in the North Sea. Thirty-two Americans did not come off that ship. I have been given their names. I will not read them tonight because their families have not all been reached, and they will hear it from a…
The largest surface action between Western powers in eighty years. Gettysburg goes down with thirty-two dead. Keflavik's fuel farm burns. Forty-two percent of the American standoff stockpile is gone, and forty-eight allied warheads are still at sea.
URGENT: US Navy cruiser USS Gettysburg has sunk in the North Sea after being struck by anti-ship missiles during a combined Anglo-French strike. US officials confirm fatalities.
A ship went down. Every spouse in this neighbourhood is standing at a window right now watching the street for a car that does not belong here. That is what today is. Not the news. The window. Please do not post the name until the families have been told. Plea…
Navy. It says Navy. My son is Army. I read the word Navy and I felt relief and then I felt so ashamed of the relief that I had to sit down on the stairs. Somebody's son is on that ship. I am so sorry. I am so sorry that my first feeling was about mine.
How it happened, because the detail matters: Gettysburg fought her own engagement well. Fourteen sea-skimmers killed by SM-2 and ESSM. Then Suffren put a torpedo spread underneath her and she had to manoeuvre out of her own defensive geometry. Two Exocets amid…
PLEASE stop reposting the crew list going round. It is not official, it is not complete, and two of the names on it are wrong. Somebody's mother is going to read a name on your timeline before an officer gets to her door. There is no version of that you get to…
Tanya. Every single one of us on this street felt exactly that this morning when we saw it was not our husband's hull number. It is not shame. It is what love does when it is frightened. Do not carry that one on top of everything else.
The Department confirms the loss of USS Gettysburg (CG-64) with thirty-two personnel. Next of kin are being notified. Operations in the theater continue.
The fuel farm at Keflavik is burning. Storm Shadow, from the east, under the Patriots. Nine days ago the Americans took this airfield in a battle that killed nine people. Tonight they cannot land a heavy transport on it.
Thirty-two. I have carried one of those boxes. It is heavier than you think and it is not because of what is in it. Whatever you believe about this war, today is not the day to be clever about it online. Tomorrow, be as angry as you want. I intend to be.
The United States Navy has lost the cruiser Gettysburg in the North Sea. Thirty-two Americans did not come off that ship. — Written statement, the White House
"I ordered the operation she was on. Nobody else ordered it." I have been critical of every decision in this campaign and I will be again tomorrow. Tonight I will say only this: that is the correct sentence, it is the one sentence nobody in his position ever s…
"I ordered the operation she was on. Nobody else ordered it." I have been on this app defending him for six weeks and I have taken some abuse for it, some of it deserved. Tonight he said the one thing I needed him to say. It does not bring back thirty-two boys…
Deb — I have been on the other side of you in these replies for a month. You are right. He said it, and it was the right thing, and I am not going to take that away from him tonight. I hope you and I are still arguing about all of this in ten years. That will …
"Nobody else ordered it." Forty-one days I have been shouting at this man on this app. Tonight he said the one thing that is hard to say and he said it plain. Does not change my mind about one single decision. Changes what I think of him for about an hour. Bot…
We had a minute's silence in homeroom this morning. Thirty-two seconds, one for each. A kid suggested it, not me. Then we did fractions. That is the strangest part of all of this. The fractions still have to happen.
Thirty-two names were read in my church last night. We had forty people. Six weeks ago we had two hundred and forty. They did not leave over the war. They left over me. That is fine. Somebody has to read the names and it turns out it is going to be forty of us…
Six weeks ago people here made jokes about the gringos fighting each other. Nobody is joking now. My mother asked me last night whether the missiles can reach here. They cannot. She asked anyway. That is what this month did to the world. It made everybody's mo…
Four days of Phase II, tallied: 388 further standoff weapons expended. RAF main bases cratered — and the fighter force is intact, flying off motorway sections under emission control. 14 US aircraft shot down. 18 allied. 1 US cruiser sunk, 1 French frigate sunk…
Adding up four days of published and reconstructed figures. Expended: 148 weapons in the opening salvo, 388 in the follow-on. Cumulative 42% of total US global JASSM-ER and LRASM stocks. Phase II as planned wanted 65% over twelve days; they…