A witness to the incident said that boaters took cover when the firing started. Rangers were slated for a 'pirate sea battle' ...

Eighteen soldiers have been temporarily suspended after video emerged of them firing blank rounds on a crowded Florida beach during a local pirate festival ... incident. An Army spokesman later ...

Rising from the water like rusty invaders out of H.G. Wells, the Maunsell Army Forts in the Thames Estuary ... forts were famously taken over as a pirate radio station playing rock and roll.