{"id":70026,"date":"2017-01-29T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70026"},"modified":"2017-01-29T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T14:08:06","slug":"subs-aint-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70026","title":{"rendered":"Subs Ain&#8217;t Sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went digging around for news from the real world, not the peculiar daydreams of the left side of the fence, and came across this from the BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>This story is in regard to\u00a0a declassed CIA memo about a Polaris class sub, SSBN James Madison colliding with a Soviet Victor class sub off the coast of Scotland near Holy Loch.\u00a0 It indicates how closely the Soviets followed our subs and could have taken out our first line of defense in a heartbeat, according to the article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-38744322\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-38744322<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure sub sailors will have a few things\u00a0to say about it.<\/p>\n<p>What is disturbing is that the news of the collision was not released until now, some 40 years later, because at the time, Kissinger\u00a0\u00a0considered it to be &#8220;too embarrassing&#8221; to be released as news by the Ford administration.<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassing?? Embarrassing is being caught with your pants down, isn&#8217;t it? Subs ain&#8217;t sandwiches built especially for you by some benighted soul behind the glass sneeze shields at a Subway shop on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>You wanna talk about embarrassing?? \u00a0How about the last eight years??<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went digging around for news from the real world, not the peculiar daydreams of the &hellip; <a title=\"Subs Ain&#8217;t Sandwiches\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70026\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Subs Ain&#8217;t Sandwiches<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,119,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-navy","category-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}