Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 308 (Part 1)" video.

  1. Yeah, as far as grading the Navies of WW2, that would be better if you did it by year. Like the US Navy during 41 & 42- The Pearl Harbor attack is going to take their grade to a "D" at the beginning and although there is Midway pulling the grade up a bit, the Coral Sea was successful as in preventing Fort Moresby from being taken by the Japs BUT we did lose Lexington & had Yorktown damaged. And we had the Doolittle Raid bringing the grade up. But all the ships we lost during Guadal Canal really brings the score back down. So for the US Navy '41 & '42 I'd say "C". And the thing about it too is that it's the pilots of the aircraft carriers basically bringing the score up while all the rest of the US NAVY is bringing the grade down. And even the submarines would have had a chance to help the grade BUT The Mark 14 torpedo screwed that up as well!
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  2. Yeah, I'm rather curious about it myself and if you can explain it better & with a little more detail maybe I could understand what your actually talking about?
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  3. I just now realized that you had "The ORIGINAL OPENING" song/ diddy back!!! CONGRATS!!! I had thought it rather annoying that some idiot was trying to claim the rights to it! The things @$$holes do to try to get money. IMHO whoever the people are that were doing that crap to you I hope God looks down on them in an angry manner & decides to make their lives so difficult & complicated that they never even have time to think about doing anything like that to anyone else ever again! We can only hope & pray. Or is that pray & hope?
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  4. As an American I truly don't understand WHY I get such a kick out of hearing about HMS Newport sneaking in front of the French and being the first ship to transit the Suez Canal. But I truly find it hilarious that although the French had it built the English were the first ones to use it! Just a way to 🖕 the French! Screw politics were going for it!! And btw, it's not the first time I've heard you tell that story. But it's still just as funny as the first time you told it!
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  5. Yeah, in actuality NO, THE FRENCH WERE NOT RIGHT!!! One of France's biggest problems were that they first built ships to try to rival the Royal Navy, and then Italy, and then Germany. And they just didn't know who they might have to fight. And fighting Germany would have been more of a land battle than a naval battle. But NOT Italy. And then they became Allied with the British so that helped them. But left the British short handed when they surrendered to Germany so quick. And it's not just about timing but btw something is used. And now air power also has to be considered as well. And an actual sea going Navy is different than a coastal defense force Navy. And a nation has to decide what suits them best. If a nation doesn't have enough money or has no need for a sea going Navy then it's not practical to try to build one. But since France did have over seas possessions then they really needed ships capable of protecting their ships at sea that were going back & forth from the possessions and the possessions themselves. And so, it can easily be said that at the time France had this idea, it was SERIOUSLY A BAD IDEA!!!
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  6. Yeah, giving individual Navies a grade is really not easy & really not fair for each Navy UNLESS you grade said Navy yearly. And you also have to look at how much funding EACH Navy is getting from their nation & how well they used that funding to accomplish the goals that they needed to meet.
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  7. AND the closing statement pretty much sums up ALL OF THE "What if" questions about the Japs doing this or that or the other. All it means is the Japanese might have to deal with getting hit with more than two nuclear weapons. Meaning more radioactive sites that are unhabitable in the long run. Plus it's "all over now" anyway!!!
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  8. If Hood had been equipped with small tube boilers I'd venture a guess that the weight saved would have probably been put into thicker armor belt. Which may have saved it from going down with all hands in the Denmark Strait! Unfortunately 😢 Hood went down. And Bismark was doomed because of it. HMS Rodney seen to that. I love how Drach describes Rodney's 16" guns "snarling" a reply to the guns of Bismark! AND with the all forward armament no need to turn to unmask a rear turret. That's why I think that was truly a much better design for a battleship!
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  9. Well, dear sir, I had a older brother that was almost 4 years older than me. And when he was in the 10th grade in high school he took what I believe was equivalent to the "basic skills" test in schools. He had a score that said his intelligence was that of a second year college student. Also, if you ever sat & watched the show "Jeopardy" with him, he could give the question to almost EVERY answer on the show. Where I could MAYBE give the questions for a row. But when I was 17 I moved out of my parents place. I came back cuz my step-dad Billy got hurt at work. For the next 2 years I was the one that worked & paid the bills. And that included my older brother being there rent free while I paid all the bills. After Billy got an insurance settlement we moved to SC & we built a house. We meaning Billy built it and I helped everyday. My brother helped maybe 3 or 4 separate days. After it was built I eventually moved to Northern Virginia cuz I couldn't find work. My brother lived with Mama practically all his life. BY THIS POINT I KNOW YOUR ASKING "WHAT'S YOUR POINT?" Well here it is... Just cuz someone is intelligent doesn't mean that they are a functional human being capable of taking care of themselves and a family! And just because you can see this thing with Drach that bothers you doesn't mean that other people see it & it bothers them. Evidently and this is ONLY my personal opinion and I don't want to argue with you about it or make this into some huge thing that it's NOT! However, I think that you are wrong & what you are talking about is just something that you have produced in your head & has little to do with Drachs overall actual performance and word usage has been GREAT for well OVER 5 YEARS!!! It has helped build his channel into a channel that has been acquiring new viewers EVERY WEEK & DAY! Now, I seriously don't even see what you're complaining about but if Drach does MAYBE he will consider your point of view. BUT in the interest of the channel in general, I hope he just ignores you from here on out. Cuz to put it short & to the point: I kinda believe that you are either crazy or just not right in the head somehow & want to complain about something but not sure what or how you want to complain about something!!!.
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  10. If I'm wrong about you personally I do apologize. HOWEVER, I do believe Drach presents himself very well & it is a pleasure to listen to him. And he's not here to give us lessons on the English language. He is providing information on questions people have asked & in the process hopefully also learning things about war ships & battles & such that he previously did not know. And also, when asked, gives his point of view on the countless "what if" scenarios that in my opinion get in the way of the actual histories that have really happened that we have yet to learn about certain war ships. But it is something that Drach does, it has become a part of the channel, & so I just deal with it. I'm NOT going to complain everytime he answers a "what if" scenario no matter how idiotic it seems to me EVIDENTLY there are A LOT of people who are interested in such scenarios. When it's not what happened nor can it happen cuz that part of history is LONG PAST!! AND, occasionally, although it pains me to say it, sometimes some of the scenarios are interesting no matter how impossible this long after the fact. So like anything & everything in life this channel is no different. You enjoy the good and tolerate the not so good. But IMHO the good about this channel STRONGLY outweighs the bad!!!
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