Weekend Open Thread
Sparks wants an open thread already for this weekend. but he never sends me a picture, so I get to choose;
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OK,let me get this one started. 3/17 AIRCAV,give us an update on the Mule.
Amen. I been wondering about that too! Haven’t seen him around lately though.
Claw and GD…….the mule arrived at my home as scheduled. It runs like a top. I’ve been using it for various tasks around my property.
The Vietnam era paint has arrived along with the stencils, so I can take it back to that period.
GD…..Your right, I have not been around the site lately. Been kind of busy remodeling my kitchen. Also spending some time with my college baseball buddies.
Anyway guys, thanks for asking, take care.
Way Cool! Thanks Jonn.
TBH fatboy in upper right corner looks like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse now
They look like some elite sooperdooperseekritskwirrel Scout Sniper Recon Commando RangerSEAL Airsoft Commando Team patrolling the woods around their trailer park!
Senior Chief uploaded a new one. Run and see it guys.
The alternate title for this one is, “Reasons Why Mrs. Shipley Deserves a Renovation”
A screenshot target for the idiot in AZ: http://jresume.com/williammcanerney24
The given address is just a few minutes from where I live.
All of that fluff. All he had to say was that he was a receptionist who told people where to sit…..He lead and coordinated the execution of vital sitting arrangements. His actions were instrumental in the overwhelming intake of 50 customers and clients. He brings great honor and credit to the office of Community Relations and shows the diligent resourcefulness of a true American hero. SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force sought his services years ago and gave him a direct comission as an I-6 Special Warfare Receptionist SWR1(SW/AW/EOD/POW/CAG/NAC/).
I feel like these milsim guys all have asthma.
They look more 8UP than a chocolate dildo in a crowded gay bar on Valentine’s Day!
The guy in the lower left corner looks like what I imagine __________ to look like.
(I had a tag to put in there but I better not start any shit b/c I’m on my way out the door. Besides, he may not see it. He’s probably out buying a case of Tucks right now. He got his butt hurt in a recent thread–not today–and hasn’t commented since.)
It would appear that All Point Logistics is holding a recruiting event behind Denny’s again.
Army Ranger’s request to have his ACU coat hanging during the flight was denied… the problem is that this guy doesn’t show up on AKO, and he has discrepancies with both his posture and uniform.
He’s sporting SF, Ranger, Air Assault, Airborne related badges… another case of a reporter not doing his/her due diligence when reporting:
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/passengers-claim-us-airways-flight-attendant-mistr/nhfgC/?ecmp=wsoctv_social_facebook_2014_sfp
The non facebook access:
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/passengers-claim-us-airways-flight-attendant-mistr/nhfgC/
I checked on him in AKO and he’s legit.
Thanks. I went back and checked the last name and he showed up as a 1SG, first name shortened.
His posture? you mean his hands in his pocket, yea hes SF and as for his uniform, the only thig really “wrong” with it is that he has the blue cord on, which if I remember isn’t allowed if your SF, but wearing the blue discs is. I don’t remember, I wasn’t infantry, but was SF.
Not just the hands in the pocket. He may be a laid back 1SG.
His AKO has him in the guard, as well as ROTC. He may be filling an 11 series role, or had his 11 series MOS made his primary since he became SF. His profile doesn’t give much detail.
************************************ ************************************ ******** WARNING ! ! ! ********* This dangerously illegal and highly immoral subversive underground resistance message is being surreptitiously monitored by the Beaming Internet Government Broadband Radio Oscillation Telecommunications Hearing Electronics Reconnaissance (i.e., “B.I.G. B.R.O.T.H.E.R.”) as part of a coordinated clandestine domestic surveillance investigation, in cooperation with the National Administration of Zealous Interrogation (i.e., “N.A.Z.I.”) and the Commission on Message Monitoring Investigative Electronics (i.e., “C.O.M.M.I.E.”). Serious felony criminal charges are pending, with extreme penalties yet to be determined! ************************************ Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: Do you realize that this makes the SECOND time in less than two (02) years that I’ve nearly died from lack of proper medical care at the local Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System (i.e., the Biloxi, Mississippi Veterans Administration Medical Center), AND, even though my specificic injury is Service Connected, due to having initially been injured on duty while serving as a Cavalry Scout at Fort Hood, Texas (MILLIONS of Many Moons long ago!), the VA is adamantly refusing to pay for this life saving surgery? Wow! The surgeon says it was a miracle that I was even accidentally diagnosed correctly just in the nick of time, for if I had tripped and fallen down on the floor only ONE (01) time, I was a mere inch from death resulting from instantaneous paralysis from the neck down. The surgery, which in this area, could ONLY be done at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi, and then, ONLY by Miguel Angel Melgar, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.S., F.A.C.S., was absolutely PERFECTAMUNDO! I don’t remember going to sleep. I don’t remember waking up. I felt no pain. There was no nausea. There were no negative after affects at all – – – , well, sort of. Because the surgeon goes in through an incision in the throat to make repairs on the cervical spine, various tubes and things have to get moved around a bit. In my case (and probably most similar cases), this results in edema forming between the cervical spine, esophagus, and trachea, which in… Read more »
You’re a gem John, I always get a kick out of reading what you have to offer. 🙂
John sits back in his medically prescribed theraputic chair every night before going to bed, look across his room, stares in the mirror and says, “Stay Thirsty My Friends”.
He is our “Most Interesting Man in the World”.
Yep. 🙂
John,
You said, “So, until the swelling eventually subsided, I could not have anything by mouth”
I say, “if this infliction had happened to Chelsea Manning she would have been very upset!”
Tonight, I’ve been experimenting with chewing a stick of gum, drinking Pepsi-Cola, and eating an ice cream bar.
I forgot to keep my head bent forward, so erupted into coughing spasms, ejecting some accidentally inhaled foam.
But, as time passes, and I keep trying, my ability to control my epiglottis appears to be improving.
The biggest danger of all is when I lie down in bed to sleep, for then my saliva and sinus drainage pool at the back of my throat, which could so quickly drown or suffocate me.
I’ve been advised that when it happens, it’ll suddenly feel like something is caught at the back of my throat, and that’s when I’ll die.
So far, I’ve been able to either spit it out or swallow it down.
So, I’ll keep trying.
I return to see the neurosurgeon in a few days.
Do you know who it is that teaches you how to swallow your food?
A SPEECH THERAPIST ! ! !
I ain’t kidding.
I’m really making progress!
I can swallow my pills!
Also, I ate a frozen ice cream cone from my freezer.
Ice cream is probably the most soothing thing for my throat right now.
At the hospital, they kept injecting steroids and antibiotics in the effort to reduce swelling and stop any pneumonia.
So far, it appears everything is working, better and better, faster and faster.
I wanted OUT of that hospital, because they were planning to put a feeding tube down my nose, and later, cut a feeding hole in my stomach.
I wonder why the therapist says it’s safe for me to eat a banana, but that I’m not ready to eat an apple, unless I peel it first?
Normally, when I eat an apple (the crisper, the better), I eat the entire thing, including stem, core, and seeds.
I eat pears, grapes, strawberries, and watermelon the same way, i.e., seeds and all.
I’m still listening to Old Time Radio broadcasts of 1944 episodes of “G.I. JOURNAL”.
If any of y’all are interested, the URL is:
http://www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/listen/3679/comedy/gi-journal/
Hollywood USO entertainment and American patriotism was sure a whole lot better back then.
My apologies for posting a BAD LINK!
Here is the correct URL:
http://www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/
Hey, those pictures look like ME when I was guarding that ranch out in Utah!
Shucks, we DO eventually get old and fat.
Thankfully, our pharmacist rushed through a prescription for codeine pills for my pain, so I’m a bit more comfortable.
When I’m not too tired, I go to the mess hall for a dish of soft vanilla ice cream, which when nibbled slowly and carefully, is soothing.
Do you remember having your tonsils removed when you were kids?
Do you remember the famous Bill Cosby comedy recording?
“Ice cream!”
“We’re going to get ice cream!”
Get well soon. And don’t pilot any airplanes on Codon that’s a no no.
I don’t remember how old I was when I and my two younger sisters had our tonsils and adenoids removed, but I reckon I was probably in the Third or Fourth Grade at Spring Lake School in Spring Lake, North Carolina.
It was done at Fort Bragg, in the old yellow painted wooden hospital, years before they would build the big multi-story gray concrete Womack Army Hospital.
Being a boy, I was insulted that I had to lie in a BABY crib!
They used ether to put me to sleep, and I still remember the terror I felt dreaming as a great, huge, green letter “F”, surrounded by green circles, spun around and around, getting closer and closer, at which point, I woke up, vomiting a dark colored blood, with fiery uncontrollable spasms of painful nausea, completely unable to speak.
When Daddy came to visit, he brought me two (02) presents, a book, “THE ADVENTURES OF SPIN AND MARTY”, and another book, “TARZAN AND THE LOST SAFARI”.
My sisters got presents, too, but I don’t remember what they were.
I reckon Mama was visiting them while Daddy was visiting me, but I don’t remember for certain.
While recuperating at home, we young’uns drank lots and lots of Ginger Ale, and ate jello, popsicles, and ice cream.
At least you don’t have to eat it like this:
If those were the only people we had to defend the country we’d be fucked.
Totally fucked.
So damn fucked we’d beyond fucked, and just fucked as fucked could be.
More fucked than fucked could ever fucking get.
One more time …
How fucht?
That’s pretty fucking fucked.
Finally, someone who actually speaks Infantry.
If you isn’t and never weren’t a grunt, you shoulda maybe been.
God damn it, John.
Take down my e-harmony profile pictures this moment!
I see a need for some remedial pt for at least 10 hours a day for all those muffin tops above.
http://youtu.be/RXhKpUfITV0
Well, I have a new computer and I am still working on turning all the auto-complete of.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=201pgTaEseQ&w=560&h=315%5D
Well I reckon that this pictured posse must be made up of super sleuths and spies, really stealth operators, cause ain’t no way in hell that they would be mistaken for US military personnel – even those in a Crossing the Line ceremony.
Been a hell of a week. Might need some prayers for a loved one. Will know more Monday.
Three “Hail Mary Mother of Sweet Baby Jesus”, two “Our Father of on Most High” and one Jameson … DONE!
That is an Irish 3,2,1 …
If Sparkks wants an Open Thread … Well he deserves it!
I like Sparks, every time we chat he is respectful and there is usually a mutual and appropriate reference to a shared belief in God and love for our country … Oh and our distain of POS Posers!
Master Chief…Thank you Sir. The respect I give you is the respect you earned. That kind is not hard to render.
Oh and Bernath Is Not, Never Was and Never Will Be a Real or Honorary Chief Petty Officer in this or any other lifetime!
Over.
All those POS pictured above, we will be investigating their offspring if they ever find the correct hole!
Those damn things remind me of some of the “experts” and trailer court militia types I’ve seen at Gun Shows. They’re living proof that the Human Gene Pool is in dire need of some serious CHLORINE, and I swear the Lifeguard must have been on break when they jumped in!!
Is the Asian looking dude at center/center fixing to do one of those auto-erotic asphyxiation things? That’s all I got.
Mikey has a tail tumor and will see the doctor next Friday about it.
My car is fine.
I need a new thermostat for the furnace, but if I scold this one, it pays attention.
The moon last night was so bright I did actually read a newspaper by it.
I made a bodacious pot of bean soup yesterday with smoked sausage. Will follow with corn muffins, popcorn, and watching DVDs.
I’ve been reading ‘The Red-Haired Girl in the Bog’, about Ireland and its legends and myths. If you go there and visit a fairy hill, take butter or milk as an offering. The Gentry like the foyson that those carry.
dammit, I KNOW there’s a smoked ham hock or two lurking in the freezer.
*rustle rustle*
Ah-Ha! Navy bean soup this weekend. With cheesy corn bread.
OVER!
Take the cat to the local garage.
Take the car to the vet.
Both will be fine.
Bean soup with smoked sausage?
YOU are my GIRLFRIEND forever!
Unfortunately, though, at this time, I’m not able to watch DVDs and snack at the same time, hence listening to Old Time Radio broadcasts on the Internet.
But, I’m still hoping that someday my epiglottis returns to normal.
As of tonight, I’m still coughing up food that I swallow.
I’m sitting here with a big bowl of popcorn myself. I like my popcorn spicy. Instead of just dumping hot sauce over it, here’s what I do…
Take a fresh hot pepper (your choice) and crush it up.
Put the crushed pepper in the oil and mix it up thorougly.
Add the popcorn and pop it up. Presto! Uniformly spicy popcorn.
***WARNING*** Make sure the pepper is crushed up into small bits and is not in big chunks. I made that mistake with a habanero pepper once. The big chunks started smoking and I turned my apartment into a reasonable facsimile of a tear gas chamber. We had to abandon ship and let the place air out.
I was on the road for a few hours this evening and was listening to Mark Levin. In hour 2 of his show, he played about 30 minutes of Ronald Reagan audio clips of Reagan telling jokes. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If anyone is interested, you can listen to Levin’s show free at his website. Today’s show with the Reagan interlude should be available tomorrow.
We sure used to have an awesome president.
The Great One!
I love his books and listening to him.
Men of courage, men of honor.
Men who proudly served their country as kinetic energy weapons (they were so fat, they could take out entire armored corps when dropped from space).
They made their commander, John Giduck, proud.
I miss Chevy. And Round Ranger.
BTW: what’s the status of The Tournament? Was it canned because you-know-who on the north-left coast has it sewed up?
Over.
Switch to BZ69 Delta!
OVER
What time do we switch to BR549 with TP scramble code?? I also have RABUF ready!
Making the rounds now, US Airways flight attendant insults Army Ranger (qualified):
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/flight-attendant-us-airways-insults-army-ranger-video/
Please don’t be a faker, please don’t a faker, How sad is it that I have to hope this out loud?
Abn,
He has been vetted as being in the AKO. You are right though, its a damn shame that so many posers pull crap that the first thing that pops in your head when you see something like this is that its a poser pulling something.
I like this blog and respect what you stand for. I am a vet and claim nothing more than I did in the Army. I am proud to have been NBC Instructor.
So, you are a veterinarian who taught television network broadcasting at Salvation Army missions?
OOPS ! ! !
Just trying to have a bit of creative fun!
But seriously, thank you for serving when others refused to do so, and for going where others refused to go.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! A man sneezed while aboard an airliner and “joked” about it saying “It’s my Ebola acting up!” which got everyone detained aboard the plane while s team dressed out in Level A HAZMAT gear got the fool and took him off the plane.
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/joke-international-flight-ebola-happens-video/793342/
What’s a weekend open thread without taking a big fat John Giduck? I mean the big Lochness monster kind that lays on the side of the porcelain like a dark brown walrus sunning on a rock and then stands on end when flushed with the tip breaking just enough to look like Nessie herself submerging in Loch ness.
That’s the true test of taking a Giduck. John Giduck – the turd with a face.
Duckwalk, people!
ArmyATC, you’re in Cloverdale right? Have you ever been over to Fairmount?
My question is in reference to the UH-1 that is on display at the AL post in Fairmount.
is Aaron Elijah Colyer still slurping down cocks after letting them “occupy” him?
His facebook page isn’t up anymore so he must be busy taking care of the hairyboys swinging from his chin…
By the way, Aaron’s “PTSD diagnosis” came as a justification for medical marijuana in Seattle.
http://www.tennesseemedicalmarijuana.org/about/
This seems to be a recent diagnosis and was likely used because he told the doc that he was in the USMC. Some marijuana clinics post exactly what you need to say in order to be “diagnosed” as needing medical marijuana.
Given the number of 18-21 year olds that apparently have cataracts to justify medical marijuana use, Aaron’s PTSD diagnosis should likely fall into the dubious category…or “doobie”-us category.
All the [bogus] Rev. Colyer has to do is move to Berserkely or San Foo-foo where a number of their local pols have called for free “medical” Mary Jane for the lower income and homeless, then he wouldn’t have to blow winos behind the bus stop (rumor) for weed money!!
BREAKING NEWS:
Bernath is not, was not nor will he ever be a Genuine or Honorary CPO. PERIOD!
This is the truth and it will NEVER change!
Better up your game … we are!
Hey, Master Chief!
I’ll bet you probably know some of the active duty Navy chiefs (most of whom are from the local SeaBee base) who work here at the Armed Forces Retirement Home (i.e., it used to be called the “Naval Home”).
There’s so many Navy volunteers assigned here, I can’t begin to keep track of who’s who.
Just about every month or so, the residents have chow with groups of CPOs visiting from various Navy facilities.
Many Navy personnel choose to have their retirement or reenlistment ceremony conducted here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2VMwF3Bpazo
Have you ever been here for any of these Navy functions?
http://writesong.blogspot.com/2012/07/seabee-reenlistment-ceremony.html
Speaking of SeaBees, my grandfather was one in WWII. Drove a garbage truck on Okinawa.
So, then this jackass pops up on the radar: another politician… http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/12/Exclusive-Military-Leaders-Michigan-Dem-Senate-Nominee-Gary-Peters-Exaggerated-Misrepresented-Military-Record-On-Campaign-Trail
No I have not!
Why don’t you sponsor a TAH get together and I will fly down.
For intertainment … we can have a bad lawer crash a plane on a LZ just as someone in a clown suit lands.
That would be interesting, sad, tragic and joyful all at once!
DONE! _____________________ Sergeant Dickerson, Et Alii: One of the numerous web sites that I frequent is, “THIS AIN’T HELL, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT FROM HERE”, a gathering of military personnel and veterans dedicated to exposing military impersonators. Here is the conventional URL: http://valorguardians.com/blog/ Here is a recent exchange which might interest your staff: ___________________________ John Robert Mallernee says: October 11, 2014 at 3:59 pm Hey, Master Chief! I’ll bet you probably know some of the active duty Navy chiefs (most of whom are from the local SeaBee base) who work here at the Armed Forces Retirement Home (i.e., it used to be called the “Naval Home”). There’s so many Navy volunteers assigned here, I can’t begin to keep track of who’s who. Just about every month or so, the residents have chow with groups of CPOs visiting from various Navy facilities. Many Navy personnel choose to have their retirement or reenlistment ceremony conducted here. Have you ever been here for any of these Navy functions? ___________________________ MCPO NYC USN Ret. says: October 11, 2014 at 8:01 pm No, I have not! Why don’t you sponsor a TAH get together and I will fly down. For entertainment … we can have a bad lawyer crash a plane on a LZ just as someone in a clown suit lands. That would be interesting, sad, tragic, and joyful all at once! ___________________________ (In reference to a lawyer crashing an airplane, he’s making a private inside joke.) With my lack of personal resources and experience, how can this be arranged? Actually, there are indications that the Master Chief Petty Officer and I are at polar opposites within the political spectrum. Thus, I would not be too surprised if he arrived with a Department of Homeland Security S.W.A.T. team intent on hauling me away in chains. Mox nix. I’m reckoning a good time will be had by all, especially since this is historically a Navy facility, and continues to be supported logistically by local Naval installations. Maybe our Master Chief from the Sea Bee base can handle this? Thank you. John Robert Mallernee Armed… Read more »
John,
Let’s make this happen.
Send an email to Jonn so maybe he can get all Valor Thief Hunters in the area to show.
Terry
Bernath, you had your turn.
Mine now.
Rustle, rustle, bitch.
Get some Sparky!
Isn’t that idiot squelched yet?
He really needs to find a new hobby… something like measuring distances by actually walking them with a 12ft tape.
More breaking news: I’m going to the grocery store to pick up pizza, pot pies, GG veggie side dishes, carrots, crackers, jam, jelly, peanut butter, butter, bacon, sausage, flour, brown sugar, teabags, OJ, and flannel sleep pants.
Anyone need anything? If you want adult beverages, I keep telling it’s BYOB around here.
You’re a GIRL!
Don’t you know how DEPRESSING it is for us guys to fantasize about you if you’re wearing FLANNEL SLEEP PANTS?
Where’s your sense of patriotism?
Just ’cause I got old, and can’t quite cut the mustard anymore!
Don’t be cruel.
John, they’re flannel.
They’re fuzzy and baggy and warm, and they look like a sack of potatoes on me.
Their only redeeming value is that I have a choice between the ‘Hello Kitty’ design and the something that looks like Eeyore the donkey from Winnie the Pooh.
Not much is going on over here. I’ve got a Religion mid-term Friday, and a German Oral Exam (basically a Midterm) Thursday. It’s going to be a pretty busy week, but for now things are kinda restful.
Dreharbeiten Durchwandler, hier ist ein guter Ort, um für ihre Tests.
Wenn Sie auf der Suche nach einem guten Buch für Bezug, kaufen “Scheisse! Das eigentliche deutsche sie waren noch nie in der Schule unterrichtet!”.
Der Autor ist Gertrude Besserwisser.
Viel Glück!
Show-off!
I was there, too, but all I know how to say is, “Mox Nix, G.I.”
This just in from NPR:
Dr. Gabriel Logan set up a bare-bones Ebola isolation ward in a small building behind the hospital. And used lamivudine, an antiviral medicine used to treat hepatitis B and HIV, on Ebola patients. Of the 15 patients he treated with lamivudine, he says, 13 survived.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/10/355164328/a-liberian-doctor-comes-up-with-his-own-ebola-regimen
This is, in effect, a rogue clinical trial that lacks controls. On the other hand, he’s getting an improved survival rate, and if I were a patient, I would not care.
While the world spins too fast for the Golfer in Mom jeans, it doesn’t spin so fast that he can’t fund raise. Ebola? Ebol-ee? (Note: same as Ebola but spoken in obamanese) Screw it. Syria? Iraq? ISIS? Screw them all. Fundraising is where the Golfer’s focus is—and, brother, is he focused! Four California fundraisers in three days, a week spent fundraising, from NYC/CT to CA. And he’s just warming up. Now, it’s back to the east coast for him. Hey LIRight, get ready. He’s coming your way. He’ll be in Garden City and screwing up traffic on the LIE, Southern State, or both. Meanwhile, virtual no D who is running for re-election dares mention his name. They are all lying through their teeth. Bastages. Farking bastages. The lot of them.
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been away from TAH for about a month. Been remodeling my house. New hickory floor, new windows, new wood stove, new appliances and a new copper country kitchen sink. Project completed!
I’m going to take my mech. Mule to the body shop for paint and Army Air Cav. Markings
Let’s see, I’ve got the restored M38A1 jeep, circa 1952. The 1970 M274 mech. mule, circa 1970. Wonder if I have room for a UH-1H? Prob. Not, I think that would be pushing it with the wife.
Next project, a 1950 Ford F-1 pickup. Frame up restoration
Sounds like you’ve been a busy,busy man. But if you ever do get a Huey to sit on the hill I will for sure come and visit you just so we can turn the windshield wipers on and off. Are you still thinking of fabricating a M60 mount for the Mule or just going to free hand it? Good Luck my friend. Hope you enjoyed your time with the old baseball buddies.
Claw……I’m going to get the Mule painted and markings, then think about the mounted M-60. I’ve done a little research, I think a replica 60 was about six hundred bucks. Don’t know about the mount.
Hanging with my baseball guys was a hoot. However, they are starting to fall. Buried one last week. Another, our shortstop, has bladder cancer. Seems to be the season. I tell them every year “We only have so many road trips left better make them count”
Yep,I know exactly what you’re talking about on making those road trips count. My last best friend from back home in Indiana passed away in March,so now I have no reason at all to go back there except to maybe one day visit my entire family who are all in the same section/row. Later,I’m out.
It would be cool to put nose art on the mule if it, you know, actually had a nose.
Perry,I think the plan is to put the nose art on the ammo can/Fresca/Black Label cooler that will be mounted near the steering wheel for easy access.
FRESCA?
I remember opening my first (and ONLY!) can of warm FRESCA while on guard duty at Dong Ha.
Eeeeyyuckhh!!!
I’d never touch that stuff again!
At Camp Eagle, there were pallets upon pallets of cases of FRESCA, with the prices being drastically lowered over and over, in a futile attempt to try and get rid of it.
Nobody wanted it.
They couldn’t even give that stuff away.
I wonder if the Vietnamese ever drank it?
JRM,yes,the Vietnamese did drink it. That is what finally forced them to the Peace Talks Table. They had to do something to stop the Fresca import war. They knew that if enough pallets of it ever escaped from from US control the country was doomed. There were plans in the works to spray the excess Fresca over the entire country(like they did with Agent Orange)and if that happened all the rice paddies would be too acidic for farming. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. So yes,Fresca shortened the war by at least 10 years and saved millions of lives.
Claw……..You left out the part about using Fresca on captured troops. They always told you everything you wanted to know if you threatened them with Fresca instead of water
3/17 Air Cav…Thanks Air Cav…LMAO!
Shhh,we’re not supposed to talk about those Geneva Convention violations from 45 years ago. Big Brother is watching. Smile.
CLAW131…Fresca! Now you’re talking my old language. Fresca and/or brewskies in the ammo can! Ah the memories. Good times, good times. I swear they made those ammo cans just right to fit the cans. Knowing it or not. It’s in the category of, “Things you can make work for other things”.
Time for another Paul K. Wickre meme:
http://memegenerator.net/instance/55216659
In only thirty (30) minutes from now, they’ll be serving SUPPER in our mess hall!
This is our posted menu:
https://www.afrh.gov/afrh/current/menu/2014/Cycle%20Two%206-12%20Oct.pdf
For supper, I’ll choose to have roast beef with gravy, rice, and carrots, with glasses of Coca-Cola over ice cubes, with a straw for sipping (I’m still recuperating – – – i.e., learning how to swallow without choking).
For dessert, I’ll have a BIG bowl of soft vanilla ice cream, and two (02) of those fresh baked sugar cookies that are as big as the saucer they’re served on.
I like dipping the sugar cookie into the soft vanilla ice cream, and then slowly relishing each delicious nibble.
Yes, this technique seems to be helping to heal my throat.
Hahaha I know the guy in the center picture. He’s such a douche wanna be SOF. He works for the TSA in LasVegas. He thinks he is saving the world if you ask him.
Well..it appears that a healthcare worker at the hospital in Texas where Duncan died of Ebola has just tested positive for the virus in a preliminary exam.
If workers in a modern US hospital are going to contract Ebola, shouldn’t that tell us something about the vulnerability of the 3000 troops Obama is sending to Liberia to “Battle Ebola” in far more primitive conditions?
I doubt if B. Hussein 0bama gives a damn, he’s too busy golfing and going to fundraisers!
And while the odds are very long it was my ER nurse friend, the fact he was in the ER before he came back still scares the crap out of me.
Anybody here see Needle Dick lately? He’s missed a few parties and even Denise Rodman can’t get through to him.
I fucking hate it when people badmouth the military, especially if they don’t know fucking shit about it or what the hell it is they do in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As much as I hate to admit it, there are one or two people like this at Hillsdale. They’re good people otherwise, but I wish they’d just shut the hell up and learn when they talk about the military.
I have a question for you guys/gals, we recently took a trip where there was a guy in uniform setting up outside of a rest area in Fl to get donations for vets. I dont know Army uniforms or many of the organizations so I wasn’t sure if he was legit and did not. We donate alot to Fisher house, but since we are close to Ft Campbell, we get many requests at the spur of the moment. I think its sad that we cannot trust 🙁
Oh and PH-2 I want some of your recipes!
In a rest area? Nope,probably was a faker pan handling. You were correct in not giving him anything.
I hope you waved and wished him well–And kept your money in your pocket. There are no starving people in this country. There are none who will not be treated at a hospital, though it may not be the hospital of their choice. There are none who aren’t welcome at a shelter, either, though I admit that the Hilton’s accommodations are much nicer. The “Homeless Veteran” ploy is exactly that, designed to pull on your heartstrings a little bit more than plain old “Homeless and Hungry” signs.
A feel good story from the City Of Brotherly Love.
http://mobile.philly.com/blogs/?wss=/philly/blogs/dncrime/&id=278956001