Navy-Air Force academy game back on
The Defense Department announced that this weekend’s football game between the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy will be played as scheduled, according to The Navy Times;
The official said Wednesday the decision affects this weekend’s games only, and future games will be evaluated as events unfold in the coming days.
The teams will be allowed to play because the games are paid for with non-appropriated funds, and have been long planned. Army is scheduled to travel to Boston College this weekend, and Air Force will play at Navy in Annapolis, Md.
So the threat still lingers over future games. Meanwhile, MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to United Airlines’ offer to fly the Air Force Academy team to Annapolis for the game on their dime;
“We hate cancellations, so we’re offering to fly @AF_Academy to this year’s Air Force-Navy game. Retweet if you agree.”
United confirmed to Today in the Sky that the offer is a serious one.
“At United, we love football, we love our troops and, of course, we love flying,” United says in its statement to Today in the Sky. “We want to make sure fans of the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy get to see their teams out on the field Saturday.”
“United is a strong supporter of our veterans and active-duty service men and women, with so many of our own co-workers having served,” the statement adds. “And with our commitment to both Colorado and the D.C. area, we thought this was a great opportunity to keep the long-standing tradition alive.”
So the Navy makes this video to get ready for the game; “What does a Zoomie say?”
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Support the troops
So our last mini trip of the summer was to visit my wife’s brother and their family in Winnecka in the Land O’ Lincoln. As we check in on the return flight from O’Hara flying back to LGA. The Delta rep said that we had to pay a fee for each bag. Now mind you we identified ourselves as a military family and presented our mil identification cards first thing. I let the counter bully know that we were not charged any fee for bags departing LGA. The Delta counter bully who’s private cell phone conversation going on in her ear piece and lapel mic was certainly far more important when I asked about the fee and she replied, “we don’t do that for the military here” and she jumped back into conversation on her cell phone without missing a beat.
So based on that, we will NEVER FLY DELTA AGAIN … NEVER!
And based on the story above … WE WILL FLY UNITED!
Oh one other thing, based on the topic of the cell phone conversation and the age of the preganant daughter, I can only assume the cell phone was an Obama Phone!
It looks like there will be a (USN-USAF) cat fight this w/end afterall.
United: Good on ya.
White House: Pull your head out of your 4th Point of Contact.
Pundits: Read the Constitution: Congress controls the pursestrings. The executive branch is required to live within those means.
The fox say: that parody music sucks worse than the original. (smile)
Cool.
The Liberty Bowl will at least have someone for Memphis or Tulsa to play.
Meh! BFD!!