Avast, ye al Qaedas! Arrgh!
Lt Nixon catches US Snooze and World Retorts in a bit of incompetent fact-checking;
Standing just outside the recruiting center were several current or former servicemen, including Coby Dillard, who said he served on the USS Constitution as a Navy petty officer in 2003. At one point, a lob of red paint hit the sidewalk and exploded at Dillard’s feet. “This is the blood that has been spilled,” yelled a protester before being admonished by a noticeably perturbed organizer.
Great! Good to know a fellow squid who has done time post-9/11 is standing up against the marxist goon squad who wants to degrade our military. Of course his claim to be an Iraq vet, judging by the text of this article, looks to be in question since the USS Constitution or “Old Ironsides” hasn’t seen any action on the high seas since the War of 1812.
USS Constitution
LT Nixon continues to explain that the young petty officer served on the USS Constellation – easy mistake, the first five letters are the same, aren’t they? In an email to me the El-Tee asks “Sheesh, it’s like the media is trying to make vets look like jackassess.”
My answer was; no, they just think all of their consumers are jackasses.
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In all honesty I’d rather serve on that thing than a carrier. I hear they used to carry barrels full of rum back in the good old days.
Jonn wrote: I hear they still carry barrels full of rum on Navy ships – but these days they call them “Chief Petty Officers”. 🙂
Hey, I toured the USS Constitution in 2003. Don’t recall seeing Navy Petty Officer Dillard onboard.
Hmmmm….
Skye,
Maybe we were in port somewhere. Or maybe I was sleeping.