WINNING: Charlie Sheen Plays Unwitting Role in Resolving Libyan Conflict
- Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:51am by
Meredith Jessup
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Whether he knows it or not, actor Charlie Sheen is actually helping the United States Air Force fight the forces of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
The U.S. military has always had a unique knack for assigning code names to their historic operations. So, it should come as no surprise that missions of Operation Odyssey Dawn should be just as unique.
But Dutch radio enthusiast “Huub” must have been somewhat amused to track U.S. military communications announcing the whereabouts of “SHEEN53,” an EC-130 cargo psy-ops plane ostensibly named after actor/PR train wreck Charlie Sheen. WINNING!
Gawker reports:
SHEEN 53 was an EC-130, a specially outfitted plane designed to broadcast psy-ops messages to the enemy. Huub caught it landing at U.S. Naval Support Activity Souda Bay in Greece, just across the Mediterranean from Libya.
Also on Huub’s list of creative call signs: “CYLONs,“ reportedly named in honor of the television series ”Battlestar Gallactica.”
[Huub] also heard CYLON 41 and CYLON 36, two E8-C radar surveillance aircraft, prowling the skies over Libya. Typically, the Air Force will assign similar groups of aircraft on similar missions the same callsign, with shifting numbers, so it’s likely there are other SHEENS and CYLONS out there making lethal, horrible war over Northern Africa.
Let’s pray the U.S. military‘s SHEEN missions don’t crash and burn like their real-life namesake.
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Amica
Posted on March 26, 2011 at 12:56amWell if you’d read the story you would know that it really has nothing to do with what Sheen has to say. It’s about what the US planes are named.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 3:51pmMy question is, who is this Huub person? Is it a good thing that he’s broadcasting the activities of our planes?
Report Post »tutilal
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:01pmHi Blaze…: Could you do a favor to the world right now?? could you PLEASE STOP talking about this looser? He is the “picture perfect” of perdition. I had higher expectations from the Blaze.
Report Post »Dont lower yourselves to the point of “talking” about a person that has NO MORALS, NO STANDAR, NO DECENCY AT ALL!!
Beteween his drugs and sex scandals; he is just telling our yought how great is to be a perbert!!!
PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS LESS THAN A HUMAN GARBAGE!
Brontefan
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:27pmThere is obviously some facination with the reality of watching our fellow citizens self-destruct, which explains the reality shows that cover the television channels these days. I don’t watch them; I don‘t find other people’s misery to be “entertaining.” Sheen is a product of a far liberal Hollywood life filled with indulgences and money. Christine Onasis was the richest woman in the world but she committed suicide–proving money is not the solution. I have empathy for people in tragedy.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:16pmI don’t know how a Multimillionaire is decribed as crashing and burning.
What crashed? What’s burning?
His money sure isn’t…he’s worth millions and just got another 7 million…
Report Post »ldpeters
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:18pmThe Air Force has a great name for this operation/plane. It makes complete sense.
Report Post »Now is only the actual Charlie Sheen did…….
B-Neil
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:02pmCHarLY: your so Cool.
Report Post »superfide
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:59amHas PSYOPS said whether they are playing Chucky’s voice over the PA as part of the operation!? That would work!
Report Post »Getten
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:22amLaugh all you want. Any of you (other than Beck) booked two nights @ Radio City Music Hall and get paid up front? Sheen is crazy like a FOX!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:05amIf a horse eats locoweed, does it become a Charlie Horse?
Report Post »Amica
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:01pmUm…yep, and then he dies.
Report Post »John1863
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:05amDoes anyone realize that this guy is smarter than all of us? Lets see, act crazy…check, says some really off the wall stuff to get fired …check, make 7 million in one week in tickets sales to shows that no one knows the content of…check, Get 100 million in royalties in the fiirst year alone since the show now is in official syndication…check, CBS is now in dealings with the producers and writers of the show to get him back at 3 million an episode…check. Yeb this guy is a waste of human life…not!!!. Also by the way, he‘s passed every drug test he’s taken.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:51amI have not seen 2 and a half men. I don’t think I have watched a sit com since Cosby back in the 80s. So I can honestly say who is Charlie sheen?
Report Post »tom
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:46amThe aircraft are not named after anything. It’s the mission “call sign” attached to a particular type aircraft. These are randomly picked words. Similar aircraft for a mission usually have the same call sign with two digit identification for a particular tail number. The call signs will normally change between missions.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:15amAlvin..lol..that’s an AC-130
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:15amSeeing people like Charlie being successful on TV only proves my point there’s nothing on TV worth watching today and TV peaked somewhere between 1957-1968
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:13amC-130: Raining down death upon you from the heavens.
Report Post »tom
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:53amThe aircraft in this article doesn’t “rain down” anything buts words and electronic transmissions! hah! It’s an EC-130 Commando Solo aircraft. It’s used for Psy-Ops as the article is says. Commando Solo is the name of the aircraft not Sheen!
Report Post »VLADTEPES
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:52amCharlie you suck and so do Mohumand..
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:14amCould have been named after Bishop Fulton Sheen, where Martin Estevez got his name, thereby smearing the legacy of one of the greatest men of the 20th century and giving the Estevez family a “sheen” of respectability that they in no way deserve.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:53amAw, come on S_Malc13. This is about Charlie Sheen proclaiming – “Winning” when he obviously isn’t. Gadfly is on the same moron level as Charlie Sheen. At least Charlie Sheen has made some good movies. Gadfly has put his self above the “little people” in his Country for more than 40 years. He amassed vast wealth, while the “little people” have nothing. Young people in Libya have never known anyone but him as the “Leader” of their Country.
I hope that someone is able to assassinate this “man” who often looks like an ugly woman. He also seems to be somewhat a drunk. However, I don‘t discount that the Muslim Brotherhood might step into power if he’s gone. That would be just as bad. Islam is a really ugly religion. Females have no rights in this religion. It’s the most intolerant religion in the World.
Males are supreme in this religion, women are merely chattel. Islam is the testosterone religion of the World. How can the United States of America accept a religion where “women” are subjugated by males? It can’t, because males and females have equal standing under the Constitution of the United States of America.
In the United States of America, a women does not become the property of her husband. That is something that only a far-left Democrat would believe. Republicans believe that men and women are equal. They also believe that “races” are equal. Democrats believe that you are White, you are “evil”.
Report Post »Chilloften
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 7:22amSo obvious that Americans do not matter with this Dream Act. Use taxpayer money to finance illegals educations, then give them the jobs. This country is screwed unless more folks wake up. Maybe lots of the Japanese will be here soon, due to the nuclear radiation, maybe they will take over my country instead.
Report Post »XO
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:02amNo, Islam is not the “testosterone religion”, Diane, sorry. The Germanic pantheon perhaps earns that moniker (Thor, Odin, battle glory, praise and poetry, etc) but not Islam. Islam is the insecure bumbling beta male religion, bunch of sniveling people trying to act macho to compensate for what they’re lacking otherwise.
Don’t denigrate males et. al. because of Islam please.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 3:58pmGhostofjefferson: Excellent reply!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:39ammight just be a half shiny plane
Report Post »ILUVJESUS
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:30amOK, but really, this poor man, who is admired by millions needs help. Where are his friends?
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:35amWith alien Burt.
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 5:02amYou talking about Sheen or Gadhafi? ;-)
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:00amI agree. Unfortunately many who call themselves Christian find themselves coming up short on charity and compassion for what appears to be an actually mentally ill person. While nobody should expect laudatory comments and kudos for Sheen, you‘d think that we’d at least not see things like “let’s drop him on..“ and ”send him over on a missile..” etc. The Christian path, one would think, would involve sympathy with his sickness and prayers for his cure.
But maybe I misunderstand Christianity, maybe Jesus went around laughing at and mocking the lepers and stuff and I just missed those passages in the Bible.
Report Post »Tawandaaaa
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:05amI agree! It is so very frustrating to see “Christians” acting like playground kids standing around pointing fingers at and deriding a kindergartener who just peed himself… Can we all maybe find a bit if Godly integrity and start to reach out to this man who is having a complete mental breakdown in front of the whole world? He needs help and all the derogatory remarks only feed the craziness, making him popular with the youth in our country. It should make us all afraid to find that the youth in this country are flocking to this craziness with respect for the man! Nobody seems to be showing them the sadness of what is happening to him.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 3:54pmWhile I’m certain many people care and are concerned him, I would have concerns about anyone who admires him.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:29amuhhhh…wow?
Report Post »End The Fed
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:13amIs Psy-Ops transmitting episodes of ‘Two and a Half Men’? If so, expect Lybian surrender soon.
Report Post »End The Fed
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:17amErr… Libyan…
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 1:20pmEven worse. Without the laugh track.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:03amNeat. Now if we could just get Charlie to fly one of them…..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 3:31amHow about we offer him a nice ride, one way to Libya, via a tomahawk missile? Let his twit’s go to the world like this…
“Launch, good launch…
“Flying over ocean, nice view, big ship getting smaller behind me…
“Wind flopping hair over face…
“Passing beach, nice view of ocean, investment opportunity…
“WAHOO! Target AHEAD!
“Michale Moore descending next to me in free fall from plane…
“Hi Michael…
“Now standing before pearly gates, Moore speaking with dude in red suit with pitch fork…
By the way, I do not twit, so have no idea of the signs for shortening these down. Please use your own imagination.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:25amI actually read an article that CBS wants Charlie back for his series!!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-MM
Report Post »S_Malc13
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:02amEnough of this clown.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 2:07amWell, I sorta said the same thing.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 3:14amAny chance if he is actually on one of those planes they can open the cargo doors a bit and kind of ‘loose’ him once and for all.
Report Post »WaterH2O
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 3:46amWINNING duh?
Report Post »Muhammadwasatansprophet
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 5:44amClowns are funny. Chuck isnt.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 6:54am“Unwitting” should be on his resume by now. Seems he has a lot of ‘unwitting’ luck.
Report Post »keithh1981
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 8:16amSounds like Charlie Sheen is in fact… duh….WINNING. When he has the military using his name because of his winning success, respect is always shown.
Everyone on TV, blogs, news, and now our military is all praising and worshiping Charlie Sheen, because they want that Winning to run off on them.
Just wait until Obama wakes up from his stuper and realizes he is losing in the polls and has no chance to get reelected, he will have Charlie Sheen on his campaign real fast LOL.
Report Post »Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:39amunreal…a psy-ops plan based on a drugged out actor? what have we come to be?
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:40amThis I find quite funny. What says lovin better then BOOM! Winning! To your enemy.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 9:52amMaybe Charlie could take his “Torpedo of Truth” Vactican warlock assasination self to Libya and do an exclusive interview with Keith Olberman and Chris Mathews as war correspondents in front of Daffy’s palace?
One can only hope…..
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:14amhttp://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/21/amateur-sleuths-inte.html
Report Post »“If you attempt to leave port, you will be attacked and destroyed immediately.”
USA USA WE SAVE LIVES
OutOfTheAether
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 10:49am@SNOW
LOLOL I like your thinking!
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