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The navy is here!

mulegemichael - 4-19-2008 at 03:51 PM

On our way out fishing this morning noticed a few of the soldiers that are now stationed at our airstrip down on the "community" dock at the mouth of the river. They were packing really heavy, bright orange boxes from the dock up to the area where they were bivouaced. We couldn't figure out what was going on until we rounded the corner out by the lighthouse. It was then that we saw what appeared to be like a destroyer escort anchored just off the mouth of the river. It seems the boat/ship was providing the little contingent of soldiers with their supplies. Seems curious to me that the navy is bringing in "stuff" when it would be SO much easier to truck it in...guess i'm out of the loop...feedback?

Diver - 4-19-2008 at 03:58 PM

Maybe a fresh fish shipment ?? :biggrin: :lol:
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Bob and Susan - 4-19-2008 at 04:26 PM

yes it's saturday...pig roast day...

maybe a change of menu????

Barry A. - 4-19-2008 at 04:59 PM

-------keeps the Navy busy doing useful things, I suppose.

soulpatch - 4-19-2008 at 05:31 PM

Maybe that's the easiest way to get product moved north.

DENNIS - 4-19-2008 at 05:35 PM

They probably don't want to move supplies on land because they don't like getting hasseled at those military road blocks.

Iflyfish - 4-19-2008 at 05:51 PM

bad soulpatch, bad soulpatch, how could you think such a thing??? I hope that this attempt at sarcasm is read with the appropriate tongue in cheek!

I hope someone with some real horsepower and competance takes over if decriminalization is not seen as an option. Better my mafia than yours?

I am glad to hear of their presence, the more the better right now till this gets resolved, nature abhors a vacuum and it will be filled.

Iflyfish

David K - 4-19-2008 at 06:50 PM

How long before the hijack did the army leave? Seems strange that they were there for so many years... then they leave, and then a hijacking!???

soulpatch - 4-19-2008 at 07:31 PM

Seriously,I'd rather have the professionals run the contraband than the amatuers that engender random violence and mayhem.
The professionals have the transportation ways and means down and don't have to freelance all that stuff.
Drugs are here to stay...... it's a lifestyle choice and if my family's safety means professionals provide the substances than who gives a chiite.
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Originally posted by Iflyfish
bad soulpatch, bad soulpatch, how could you think such a thing??? I hope that this attempt at sarcasm is read with the appropriate tongue in cheek!

I hope someone with some real horsepower and competance takes over if decriminalization is not seen as an option. Better my mafia than yours?

I am glad to hear of their presence, the more the better right now till this gets resolved, nature abhors a vacuum and it will be filled.

Iflyfish

bajalou - 4-19-2008 at 08:17 PM

Were they Army or possibly Mex. Marines? They wear similar camo uniforms. The Marines work closely with the Mex Navy and there were some doing checkpoints here in Baja Cal. not too long ago. Said they were from Mex City and this group would be in Baja 6 months.

[Edited on 4-20-2008 by bajalou]

Sharksbaja - 4-20-2008 at 01:06 AM

I think it's a good thing. Maybe those freakin' trawlers will steer clear for a while.

capt. mike - 4-20-2008 at 07:33 AM

they left after the oct 2006 mega devestating hurricane, reassigned to other areas for rebuilding and relief.
and never got sent back.
i was soooo glad they were moved off. made my comings and goings a piece of cake.

here's an example of their efficiency.....
i am there, right, landed days ago and parked. got checked in by them on arrival.
i go to the plane and prep for a morning pleasure hop - to chivato like 6 minutes away by air. and maybe a lazy cruise over tortuga or something.
the "guard" comes over and asks what am i doing - where am i going. So i tell him - he looks at me quizzically. oh, and BTW my Spanish ain't totally fluent but i make myself understood and hear them pretty damn well.

so while he's attempting to fill out his lengthy redundant departure form EVEN after i explain that i am NOT leaving the area and will be back in an hour..........he continues - so i shut the door and advise he needs to step away unless he wants to become a human coleslaw.

i come back, he walks over as i shut down and am putting the cover on, and asks me where i came from - the whole drill like as if i was just arriving for the 1st time!! so i say - don't you remember? i have been here at my casa for days! and i just went up and around the block! so he's filling out another lengthy INITIAL arrival report - the SAME one Don has in the lobby for arriving guests.
And he wants to LOOK in the plane - ok , i am busted - yes i DID bring shells over from Chivato.......what marooons.

David K - 4-20-2008 at 08:19 AM

Thanks Mike.... That sounds just like any and every government bureaucrat doing what they do best... :(:rolleyes:

toneart - 4-20-2008 at 08:36 AM

I believe the Navy (Marines?) were manning the airstrip from a base just opposite the Donation Pier (dock at the Serinidad strip). Indeed, they left right after Hurricane John, almost two years ago. So, I would deduce that the Navy ship is there to bring supplies to the re-deployed Navy personnel. They only know how to drive watercraft. Every time they drive an overland vehicle into the Sea of Cortez they are reminded that they don't float. :lol:

Pescador - 4-20-2008 at 10:13 AM

As soon as the highjacking happened, everyone's immediate response was to bring in the military for "protection". It seems a little out of balance and of questionable budgeting that with all of the infastructure problems present in Baja, like the need to build a few bridges or buy a couple of ambulances or firetrucks, that the limited budget be spent on army prescence when the horse is already out of the corral, so to speak.

Barry A. - 4-20-2008 at 10:23 AM

Wow, here we go again. Some complain that the "govt." is not doing their job, and others complain that they are-------

------what is "proper procedure" is up to the govt. folks, not the complaining fickle public---------can you imagine what chaos there would be if the govt. folks reacted to each and every persons perception of what their job should be?

Have a little emphathy, folks-------sure some bureaucrats make dumb decisions sometime, but at least they are there trying to maintain peace and order, I am thinking.

This from a retired (thank God) bureaucrat. Barry

bacquito - 4-20-2008 at 08:58 PM

Without rules and regulations and their enforcement by "bureaucrats" a country could not exist for long (Somalia, for example) I worked for both the private sector and local govermnent. I was more impressed with the fairness and professionalism exhibited by local government than with the fairness and professionalism shown by the private sector.
Also, it should be mentioned that many of the rules and regulations government bureaucrats enforce are the results of public demand

Barry A. - 4-20-2008 at 09:01 PM

Well said, Bacquito. Thank you.