Our old lore was great.
Fuck the lore, I want to shout “GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT” before I fling my body in front of Obama the Third and get filled with 2938210 holes. We have souto man driving around and shooting soda at people, and vietnam re-enactment already.
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Idk man. I think the MST gang will be UPP spies and act as suicidal bombers and kill Obama.
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Almayer is the shittiest ship of the line, why would UA President use it? Second issue is, we had TWE queen and santa events, both got shot at by marines.
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Which is why the President needs Frank Horrigan, United States Secret Service.
Your ride is over, muties. You are not a marine, you are just a walking corpse.
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Man I should get better at spriting….
Frank is after all kind-of similar in design to the whiteout synths armour wise. His only issue with implementation would be height making him look goofy. Compared to other marines.
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On 12 November 1943, the ship departed Norfolk to rendezvous with USS Iowa. The brand new battleship was on her way to North Africa carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Cairo and Tehran Conferences.[2] William D. Porter was reported to have been involved in a mishap while departing Norfolk when her anchor tore the railing and lifeboat mounts off a docked sister destroyer while maneuvering astern. William D. Porter was moored between USS Cogswell and USS Young with Cogswell pierside. None of the three ships reported giving or receiving damage to one another in their war diaries during the first half of November 1943.[3][4][5] The next day, a depth charge from the deck of William D. Porter fell into the rough sea and exploded, causing Iowa and the other escort ships to take evasive maneuvers under the assumption that the task force had come under torpedo attack by a German U-boat.[6] Ships logs from William D. Porter and Iowa do not mention a lost depth charge nor a U-boat search on 13 November. Both logs do mention that William D. Porter experienced a boiler tube failure on #3 boiler causing the ship to fall out of position in the formation until number 4 boiler was brought online.[7][8]
On 14 November, at Roosevelt’s request, Iowa conducted an anti-aircraft drill to demonstrate her ability to defend herself. The drill began with the release of a number of balloons for use as targets. While most of these were shot by gunners aboard Iowa, a few of them drifted toward William D. Porter which shot down balloons as well. Porter, along with the other escort ships, also demonstrated a torpedo drill by simulating a launch at Iowa. This drill suddenly went awry when a live torpedo discharged from mount #2[9] aboard William D. Porter and headed straight towards Iowa.[6]
William D. Porter attempted to signal Iowa about the incoming torpedo but, owing to orders to maintain radio silence, used a signal lamp instead. However, the destroyer first misidentified the direction of the torpedo and then relayed the wrong message, informing Iowa that Porter was backing up, rather than that a torpedo was in the water.[6] In desperation the destroyer finally broke radio silence, using codewords that relayed a warning message to Iowa regarding the incoming torpedo. After confirming the identity of the destroyer, Iowa turned hard to avoid being hit by the torpedo. Roosevelt, meanwhile, had learned of the incoming torpedo threat and asked his Secret Service attendee to move his wheelchair to the side of the battleship, so he could see.[6] Not long afterward, the torpedo detonated in the ship’s wake, some 3,000 yards (2,700 m) astern of Iowa. As a result of this incident, US ships would routinely greet the destroyer with the joke “Don’t shoot! We’re Republicans!”[10] on account of Roosevelt being a Democrat. The entire incident lasted about 4 minutes from torpedo firing at 14:36 to detonation at 14:40.
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