U. S. Navy Commander Frank X. Castellano, USNA 1990, is the Captain of the USS Bainbridge. He put his career on the line when he gave the Navy Seal Team the order to shoot - and they shot pretty well. The Captain of the Maersk Alabama, who was being held by three pirates in a life boat, was rescued when three Navy Seals each fired one shot simultaneously, from the deck of the Bainbridge, and sent those three pirates to another place. The Rules of Engagement (ROE) apparently had to be somewhat loosely interpreted by a courageous Navy ship commander or that Merchant Captain would now be just another hostage somewhere along the coast of Somalia, the Maersk Corporation would be arranging to pay the pirates $2,000,000, and the U. S. Navy would be an embarrassment on the world stage. The top photo is Commander Castellano, a hero not heretofore mentioned in the MSM. The other photos are self-explanatory. The score card is displayed in a store window in Annapolis. (Make sure to click on the shooting poster to enlarge it so you can read the caption.)
Just heard a timely quote from Lt/Col Ralph Peters: "We don't need a Hamlet in the White House. We need a Henry V."
