NationStates Jolt Archive

Adm.Arnold had been flying in his Calizorinstan Avation CB-40J (http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/hist073b.htm) from San Diego, through New York, and to Nova Scotia, and to Rekavik and finally, was 10 minutes away from landing in London, United Kingdom 2. He always flew himself places, having normally his son as a co-pilot, but since his son was off in a prep school, he had his best mate John Macked flying the plane.

He called on the radio "London Tower, this is Navy Alpha Bravo Zero, we request permission to land at RAF Lakenheath for a landing clearence. We are 10 miles from Lakenheath itself, and we request permission to land." He sighed and waited for London Tower to respond, he had been flying for a week basicily, and was quite tired out, he was flying to UK2 to meet with the head of the United Kingdom 2 Navy to see about putting together a military excersice between the two navies.

The Tower granted him access to land.Adm.George Henry was waiting for Adm.Arnold.A limo was waiting for the both of them.

Adm.Arnold touched the CBJ-40 down on the runway smoothly, and he taxied to near where he saw Adm.George Henry waiting for him. He taxied into the spot he wanted it, and turned off the engines, and had his wife come out of the plane, followed by his co-pilot, and finally he came out of the plane waving to the Admiral, and he walked up to him saying "Hello, I'm Adm.Arnold, I flew this plane here, I know your name, I've seen you before." He looked around, the sky was clear, it was a beautiful afternoon to stop in UK2 he saw, he and his party, along with Adm.Henry got into the limo, and drove away from the air-field.

Adm.Henry told the driver to drive them to the UK2 navy base and school.The United Kingdom2 navy wasn't weak at all.But the Adm.Henry knew that ground forces needed to be worked on before a war started.

Adm.Arnold said "Well, one of the main reason's I came here for, was to propose that our two nation's have naval exercises together, it would sharpen our navie's might, not that you're navy is weak, it isn't I know, but we can alway's improve our navie's strength. Do you have any battleship's in your fleet, we have about 10 of them, and they are highly effective as mobile artillery to support the troops on beach landing's." They drove to the UK2 NAvy base, and things were just getting started, Adm.Arnold sensed.

"Aye mate my fleet has 20 battleships and a warship just in case".The limo stoped and Adm.Henry got out and walked towards the docking bay.He called for Adm.Arnold to join him.

Adm.Arnold followed Adm.Henry to the docking bay, and said "Nice fleet you've got, reminds me of our fleet kind-of. Well, we have a fleet of 20 destoryer's, used to have 12, but 8 Lerasian destroyer's surrendered, after we basicly ripped thier blockade fleet apart. So now, we commsioned the 8 defected destroyers into our service. Before I was appointed head of our navy by the president, I commanded the R.C.S Mira Mesa, I fought about 10 battle's in her, and was going to be in an 11th one, but I got pulled to be a head of the navy. Funny how things worked out." He smiled as they strolled along the docks, looking at the might of the UK2 naval fleet.

"Aye look at our new ship the R.U.S Elizabeth,It was used for the Northern Ireland crisis.The ship had a huge tear in it's hull and it was being fixed by the Navy ship builders."Bloody IRA,we lost 567 men that day when the ship was attacked."

Adm.Arnold said "Well, that's amazing, bloody IRA indeed, at least it made it back safe, you should have seen our R.C.S Sacremento when it was a Lerasian destroyer in the blockade fleet, hit by 2 harpoon's and one 16 incher from my ship and survived, infact, I have a picture of it when it entered the San Diego Harbor, look at it." He pulled out the picture of the badly damaged and hit Lerasian Destoryer entering port, now the R.C.S Sacremento to Adm.Henry and said "I am amazed it didn't sink, one tough ship I tell you." He stared at the R.U.S Elizibeth and asked "Did the captain survive the attack, was any important officer's killed on it?"

"Aye you ship took a huge blow".Adm.Henry stared at the ship which would be ready in two weeks time."The captain barely made it but the Vice Admiral was killed during the battle.That was a great man,want to see the oldest ship we have here in our navy".

Adm.Arnold said "Of course I'd love too, too bad about your vice admiral though. Interestingly enough, after the current captain on the R.C.S Sacremento destroyer retires, my son will be commanding the ship, aye I am proud of him. He's friends with William, who I think's a duke, whoever married Emily Middleton, he's friends, and he just married Alex, his long girlfriend. I would like to see your oldest ship." He followed Adm.Henry to the oldest ship, telling him about his naval career and his son.

"You mean Prince Willium Fourth Duke of Sevenoak, I know his father from military school and serving with him on the front lines".Both of them walked towards of the oldest ship the UK2 Navy had. "R.I.T.Prince George,served in World War one and Two served in the Boer war,Korean war,Vietnam war and more.We are planning to retire her but we are also planning to bring her back in force but we need to see how much it will cost first.

Adm.Arnold stared in awe at this ship, "I mean, if you do bring this ship back, it will be a training ship, I can't imagine it being a front-line ship, otherwise I am afraid, it wouldn't stand a chance, against say, a modern ship. But it's a great training ship though. I also went to the same military school as Prince William's father too, and I knew him well. I say, after we tour this yard, we must make plans for a miltiary exercise involving our navies and troops, I think it would benefit us both." He was in awe at this ship, and wished that John his son was here to see it.

'Aye this hip will enter the frontlines but we will bring into new weapons and rebuild the hull to improve the strength,sure we can do that after the tour".A ship started firing into the open sea.Adm.Henry could see it was training day so Adm.Arnold could see.

Adm.Arnold grinned, "Wow what a project, I should like to board one of your battleship's and have a lookaround, I was a former battleship captain you know, so I am a sucker for battleships." He looked around and saw the ship's firing their gun's and said "Your men are finely trained I see, reminds me of our training day's back home, it's a pleasure to see an allied navy practicing and doing a fine job too." He walked around the yard with the Admiral and said "Well, my great grandfather was in the 7th cavalry, and fought in the Boer War, and in World War I, where he almost got a Medal of Honor, and my great uncle was a torpedo squadron commander during WWII."

"Me great grandfather also served in the Boer War.This ship has been has been such a great battle ship.Just then a salior ran over to them."Adm.Henry something just blow up in the habour".Adm.Henry started running.

Adm.Arnold ran with Adm.Henry and the unknown sailor, but couldn't see clearly what blew up, and said "What just blew up in the harbor Adm.Henry, I can't see because of the smoke, what the heck is going on?" Adm.Arnold had been through fire before and wasn't too badly scared, but wondered what in the world happend.

The sailor showed them what had blown up."As you see sirs we didn't know that any ships where in the water but we where wrong.The U.S.S Mary showed up from no way and we where firing misslies as well for training.Adm.Henry could see the smoke coming from the U.S.S Mary.He ordered for the crew to be droped off in the habour right away and U.S.S Mary to be brought to the habour damage control center.

Adm.Arnold stared in horror and said to Adm.Henry " What should we do? I am guessing the U.S.S Mary will be fixed I am hoping, and I am ready to go visit your HQ, if you're ready." He was shocked that this had happened, he hadn't ever seen a mistake this big before, and was suprised this happened, he walked towards the limo, and Adm.Henry followed him.

"Are you a mad man.I need to go check her".Adm.Henry walked towards the U.S.S Mary. He boarded her and started chechking her just to make sure.

Adm.Arnold said "Whoops, I had a little brain fart there, what am I doing!" He ran to the U.S.S Mary and boarded her too, and started to examine her, she had been accidentily hit by a stray missile. "How bad is is Adm.Henry, anybody hurt or killed?"

"She can be fixed but it will take maybe a year or more".Adm.Henry looked around the ship.No one was hurt or killed.He ordered that the ship to be off limits for all sailors but only the repair crew could come aboard.

Adm.Arnold asked Adm.Henry "Now that we've checked on the ship, what's next for us to do? I think that maybe the Mary could get fixed in a year, but how did this happen?" He looked and the damage looked pretty bad, a major hole he saw, and he wondered if it would take more then a year to fix.

"It's a new missile we have been testing.I now know what it can do".Adm.Henry walked towards the engine room to see if everything was fine.

Adm.Arnold said "Well, at least you learned without anyone being seriously hurt or killed." He walked with Adm.Henry to the engine room to inspect the damage.

"Thats true,we have had bigger problems in the years."Adm.Henry looked around the rest of the ship.

Adm.Arnold walked around and said "You were very lucky it was only 1 missile, not 3-5, that could have damaged and maybe have sunk the ship, I hope this isn't going to happen again." He followed Adm.Henry around the ship.

"This has happened before.1944, i was a young sailor on the Y.U.S. Brition when we were hit by a testing missile.I was almost killled and the Brition almost sank."

Adm.Arnold whistled "Wow, what happened to the Brition? Did it get saved or did it have to be scrapped? My great uncle was on the U.S.S Arizona, if you know that ship." He knew that UK2 was lucky that he survived that testing accident in '44.

"It was moved to another navy base the next day and on friday it will be fixed and will be ready to enter the water".

Adm.Arnold looked thoughtful and said "Wow that was amazing, well do you think this could be fixed up quickly and get it put into service again?' Adm.Arnold looked at all the ships on the harbor, and it reminded him of his own fleet at home.

"It could be fixed in about seven months maybe".Adm.Henry ordered that two ships to leave the navy habour and board up wth another navy habour 45 milies away.Just to make sure they would have more space.

Adm.Arnold followed him and asked "What kind of battleship do I see here?" He gestured to the big one off port bow of the R.U.Y Mary and said "It look's like a big one that's for sure."

"H.K.S.Alais,biggest ship in our navy.It can carry up to 89,000 men and with the top weapons our defence have bought."

Adm.Arnold said "Amazing, what was the last war that the UK2 Navy was in? How did it do, I think it did good, but I haven't studied the UK2 naval history enough, another reason why I am here."

"We haven't been in a war in awhile".Adm.Henry stared at the ship and smiled.

Adm.Arnold looked at his watch and said, "I think it's time for lunch, we've been here for 3 hours, and I think some food would be agreeable. I heard that your country has been hosting a royal visitor from the Scandanavian States." He smiled, he was having the time of his life, he was, after finally retiring from the Navy in 3-4 months, going to live in Scandanavian States, where he could see his son at last.