We're Too Big for a Battleship

Loose Cannon Goes Into Third Year With More Than 4,000 Subscribers

With apologies to Cher (lower left), whose “Turn Back Time” video taught the U.S. Navy a valuable lesson: Never rent your ship and sailors to Cher ever again. In World War II, up to 2,700 sailors manned the USS Missouri. Loose Cannon’s crew is now nearly as numerous as that of an aircraft carrier.

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