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@MayBeSmokin

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🇺🇲 (FL usually) 🇺🇲

Joined November 2019

979 Following

543 Followers

6K Posts

8 days ago

@SGTWipper1Each UH-1N Gunship

MayBeSmokin's tweet photo. @SGTWipper1Each UH-1N Gunship https://t.co/VtMOU5IcQF

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12 days ago

@TheLtColUSMC @CouncilmanViera Truth...backwards.

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12 days ago

@SGTWipper1Each ...& great moments in sports. HOF speeches included.

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14 days ago

@SGTWipper1Each Nudy bars, tattoo parlors, pawn shops.

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19 days ago

@AngelEyes11357 @usmcdawg77 SFMF! 🇺🇸

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22 days ago

@Arkypatriot Yes....and yes Club patch...with drying starch on a cover block. 👊 SFMFs

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22 days ago

@Jingoman111 19 yrs & 1 week

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25 days ago

@RichardSinFWTX @SGTWipper1Each

MayBeSmokin's tweet photo. @RichardSinFWTX @SGTWipper1Each https://t.co/Z4Njbgk6lA

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25 days ago

@SGTWipper1Each

MayBeSmokin's tweet photo. @SGTWipper1Each https://t.co/Z3VeBiGRP7

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28 days ago

@SGTWipper1Each FAB..Feet, Ass, & Balls

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about 1 month ago

@JustaCi54400863 @SGTWipper1Each Anytime Anywhere. Stingers! ♠️

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about 2 months ago

@SGTWipper1Each "It was easy money."

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about 2 months ago

@VinnysCorner1 Nnamdi Asomugha

MayBeSmokin's tweet photo. @VinnysCorner1 Nnamdi Asomugha https://t.co/VLQqHo5BeV

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about 2 months ago

@VinnysCorner1 True. 3x ☠️ Black Sunday was the best

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about 2 months ago

@ScottRo83866595 That's a huge yard bird. Looks great!

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about 2 months ago

@SGTWipper1Each @MapsGoneWrong Yes.

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about 2 months ago

@td_nash The Assassin

MayBeSmokin's tweet photo. @td_nash The Assassin https://t.co/jH0PKhshtY

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about 2 months ago

@Travis1 Winslow

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about 2 months ago

@BollingerTodd Jarhead. '89-'09

MayBeSmokin's tweet photo. @BollingerTodd Jarhead. '89-'09 https://t.co/KVLlDKosqV

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MayBeSmokin retweeted

Christopher Wipper

@SGTWipper1Each

2 months ago

Two legends. Same nine 16-inch guns. Very different stories. USS Alabama (BB-60) was built for a fight, not a parade. At 680 feet and 35,000 tons, she was compact by battleship standards; a South Dakota-class bruiser designed to hit hard and absorb punishment. Top speed: 27.5 knots. Her war was the Pacific, and she earned it. USS Iowa (BB-61) was something else entirely. At 887 feet and 45,000 tons, she was longer than three football fields and fast enough (33 knots) to keep pace with the carriers she was built to protect. That combination of size and speed made her not just a battleship, but a bodyguard for the entire fleet. Alabama punched above her weight. Iowa simply outweighed everyone. The gap between them isn't just numbers. It's a statement about what the Navy needed at different moments. Alabama was the workhorse of classic fleet engagements. Iowa was a different animal; a ship that outlasted WWII, showed up in Korea, came back from retirement during the Cold War, and was still firing her guns in the Gulf War four decades after her commissioning. Both carry the same armament. Both are now museum ships. But Iowa's resume is longer, her hull is bigger, and her legacy is harder to summarize in a single war.

SGTWipper1Each's tweet photo. Two legends. Same nine 16-inch guns. Very different stories.

USS Alabama (BB-60) was built for a fight, not a parade. At 680 feet and 35,000 tons, she was compact by battleship standards; a South Dakota-class bruiser designed to hit hard and absorb punishment. Top speed: 27.5 knots. Her war was the Pacific, and she earned it.

USS Iowa (BB-61) was something else entirely. At 887 feet and 45,000 tons, she was longer than three football fields and fast enough (33 knots) to keep pace with the carriers she was built to protect. That combination of size and speed made her not just a battleship, but a bodyguard for the entire fleet.

Alabama punched above her weight. Iowa simply outweighed everyone.

The gap between them isn't just numbers. It's a statement about what the Navy needed at different moments. Alabama was the workhorse of classic fleet engagements. Iowa was a different animal; a ship that outlasted WWII, showed up in Korea, came back from retirement during the Cold War, and was still firing her guns in the Gulf War four decades after her commissioning.

Both carry the same armament. Both are now museum ships. But Iowa's resume is longer, her hull is bigger, and her legacy is harder to summarize in a single war.

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