A Pitiful Few Here Will GET This?
Seems some Jarheads are in the Philippines… doing what Jarheads do.
SAN ANTONIO, Philippines — More than 200 U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts staged an amphibious assault on a beach in a combat drill Sunday near a South China Sea shoal disputed by China and the Philippines.
China is our friend and financial benefactor. Checked the source of your latest Walmart purchase?
On the world stage this is important. We’ll see how it develops.
Meanwhile, me in Subic Bay:
Category: Geezer Alert!, Pointless blather
I thought that after my father was there circa 1945 they would have had the good sense to bar FT3s from the beach.
FT? Nice.
Go longside Olongapo. “Two dolla me love you long time, five dolla come payday”. Ahhhh the things that makeup memories. Not forgetting 25 cent San Miguel and the shits for a week!
Although ya missed my point.
Gun Captain, sitting in the 5 inch mount during shore bomb. Held my trigger down well. Loooong story for those that care.
You in Subic…..with an LBFM.
Zero who’s the sailor with you?
Hey-O! Zing! Youre a great audience.
Ill be here all summer; try the veal.
:–)
“Tell me that you love me, baby.”
“I do loves you! I really, really does!”
Ha! Mike D beat me to it!
And yeah, this is a development to watch.
Jack. He bested me by a mere 10 minutes! Well, that’s at least three confirmed sick minds around here.
“…annual drill… has been staged for 28 years…” China complains through official channels, your president, shocked and dismayed, bows and apologizes.
Yeah, Spockgirl pretty much nailed it. There was a time where we would have told China, “Yeah? You and what Navy?”
Typical day in PI: Throw pesos to kids in Shit River. Via’s for tacos and lumpia. PI bar dice up Magsaysay to Victory Liner Circle and back (we never made it.) Slim’s for free beer at 6 PM. Jeepney (special, of course) to Bo. Baretto (Island Girls–submariner bar) for more beer, mojo, and girls.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
You stalking about your days of banging a shemale after a float? is that what this is about?
“hey joe you got girlfriend Vietnam”
“not right now”
NHSparky #11: Won’t bore you with the reality. We (pond scum) pretty much decided that bubbleheads suffered from oxygen starvation.
Aside: During a subsequent trip I was on an LCM or LCU during a trip to the magazine area to re-arm. I’d seen the NJ firing shore bomb, but honestly didn’t realize how big it was until we went around it in the harbor.
Even further aside: I’ve seen the NJ fire a broadside!
Doc Bailey #12: Dunno what you mean? She was a proper female. And I did have a girl friend in Da Nang as well.
I think you are a racist!!!
I am married to a gal from San Antonio, Zambales. One heckuva lady who puts my three previous WASP wives to shame in every respect and in all areas.
Just a FWIW!
Those girls got my paycheck in Olongopoo— I was a typical Sailor— Thought life had dealt me a Royal Flush when I got sent to Subic during Nam. We have had discussions which was worst beer— San Miguel or 33 Vietnamese beer
Doc– “It was butter fly boy got girl in Nam— I know”
Trobicine–breakfast of butterflies.
We had a guy on my first boat who made up a shirt for us that on the front said, “UNIVERSITY OF SUBIC CITY” and a crest complete with pesos, beer, etc., and on the back it said, “Ask me about MY major…”
Maytag #16: San Magoo IN the PI was a great laxative, to be sure. In Hong Kong it was a fancy beer???
Ba-Ma-Ba (33)… an acquired taste.
My pal The Sniper doesn’t understand why I prefer Busch. It’s never given me the shits, nor can I equate it with being shot at?
All the beer talk reminded me that at one of the 2/17 barracks (I think it was B Troop) there was a soda machine that dispensed only beer at .25/ 12 oz. can–cold.
How about throwing pesos off the bridge over the “shit”(olongapo) river and watch the boys dive in and find them…….and they did. Sliding through the out door market behind one of those motorcycles with the side cars….
yeah I was just a kid but it was fun…
fun times fun times……..
Topya all:
Did a Shore Patrol stint one night… next night throwing up on the SP’s shoes and facing the Quarter Deck.
I think I ate some of everything offered along the main drag?
You can provide the list for those unacquainted.
Zero? You ponder too much….LOL! Nice photo of your Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club days though. Dang, who’da thunk it, a handsome critter from W V……Oorah, water dog.
I think I ate some of everything offered along the main drag?
Oh God, no–you DIDN’T.
And for the record, you CAN get “gonk of the throat.”
One of my best friends in San Diego had a great T shirt from his PI days. It said “I love you baby, no shit, but buy your OWN fucking drink”
Wear that over at the club by 32nd Street and get the shit kicked outta ya by all the Westpac Widows…ah, good times.
Racist? Racist you say? I’ll have you know I had a GF in country too. Ohh that dirty slut would even show her ankles!
Dude, I didn’t get beer (from what I hear you guys had it) Women (at least not the local kind, and the soldier kind. . . better to wrap it up) OR a sweet place to R&R. All I know about Subic bay are stories, and from what I hear now a days that area is down for some real sick and twisted shit. Something about a “show” I’m sure you know what kind.
YOu know I actually think I got jipped. See when i got back to the states even seeing a girl in a bikini was enough to um. . .make me want to sit down. It sounds liek you guys got sexed the fuck up.
Well, I was just gonna say…You was some handsome kind o’pond scum, Zero!!
Another aspect of this story is that what the school is doing is (for first time) complying with existing state law and school district policy. Seems to me, if these people are “outraged” by all classes now reciting the pledge (with easy opt-out by students), they need to direct their energies to changing the law and policy.
What kind of lesson do kids learn when their parents and teachers argue that they should get to pick and choose which laws should be enforced?
whoops. wrong thread. *blush*