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BatUSA
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 10:24 AM

...and another (not really a joke but funny)
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This is an actual radio conversation between a United States Navy
     aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln) and Canadian authorities off 
     the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995.  (The radio conversation was
     released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10/10/95 as authorized by
     the Freedom of Information Act.)
     
     CANADIANS:  Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid 
     a collision.
     
     AMERICANS:  Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North to
     avoid a collision.
     
     CANADIANS:  Negative.  You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to
     the South to avoid a collision.
     
     AMERICANS:  This is the Captain of a US Navy ship.  I say again, divert YOUR
     course.
     
     CANADIANS:  No,I say again, you divert YOUR course.
     
     AMERICANS:  THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST
     SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET.  WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE
     DESTOYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS.  I DEMAND THAT
     YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH...I SAY AGAIN...THAT'S ONE-FIVE 
     DEGREES NORTH...OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE 
     SAFETY OF THIS SHIP!
     
     CANADIANS:  We are a lighthouse.  Your call.


