Barney (DDG 6) - Naval Cruise Book

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How do you talk with the Israelis when you don't speak Hebrew? Let alone you can't read the strange squiggles which represent their alphabet! BM3 Dixon, shades, back row, just calls them son and takes them under his wing - in this case, under Mount 52. GMM3 Wayland tries another method: talking about a missile system he knows well from experience. Certainly the Israelis haven't rushed out to buy their very own Mk 11 launcher system, but that doesn't mean he didn't get through to them. Or, you could try the universal language of Elvis, spoken fluently at the Elvis Cafe' at the Mountain Inn Restaurant. Elvis lives, after all. E1