<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Courtesy of the <i>DuffelBlog</i> at:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/05/show-of-force-navy-launches-massive-showtune-song-and-dance-in-south-china-sea/">https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/05/show-of-force-navy-launches-massive-showtune-song-and-dance-in-south-china-sea/</a><br><div><br></div><div>———————————————</div><div><div><h1 class="admania_entrytitle" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: "Playfair Display"; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 47px; font-size: 38px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Navy launches massive show of force with song-and-dance routine in South China Sea</h1></div><div>PACIFIC OCEAN — In an unprecedented show of force as the United States and China battle for supremacy in the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet has launched its largest-ever show tune song-and-dance routine in the, sources confirmed today.</div><div><br></div><div>Sources say more than 10,000 sailors were involved in the production, which featured a musical score composed by members of SEAL Team 6, while dance routines in the air and on ship were choreographed by members of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team.</div><div><br></div><div>“I said a-one, a-two, a-one, two, three, four,” sang Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr, head of U.S. Pacific Command. “Me n’ the boys just a swabbin’ the decks. Look out a-China or you’re gonna be next.”</div><div><br></div><div>The Navy claimed the provocative measure was just a routine patrol, but the Chinese Navy has already responded with an all-hands choreographed Dragon Dance of its own.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is clearly an act of aggression,” said China’s top naval commander, Vice Adm. Shen Jinlong. “No one comes right up to our doorstep and executes a flawless rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific without expecting to pay the consequences.”</div><div><br></div><div>Shen added that no amount of flamboyant dance moves will deter his forces from controlling the South China Sea regardless of “how cute those boys look in their whites.”</div><div><br></div><div>Still, Harris was undeterred.</div><div><br></div><div>“Oh please. Shen couldn’t hit a C-sharp if it slapped him in the face,” said Harris. “And his pirouettes are so stiff.”</div></div><div><br></div><div>———————————————<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>