Weekend Open Thread

| November 10, 2017

November 10, 2017

Friends and Anemones

A clownfish hides within a sea anemone in the waters off Indonesia. Clownfish always make their homes in anemones, and the species share a mutually beneficial, or symbiotic, relationship. The anemone’s stinging tentacles ward off fish that predate on clownfish. In return, the clownfish clean the anemone, and its waste provides nutrients for the anemone.
Photograph By Gregory Piper

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mikenienrcharlie

First from Canada!

Graybeard

Congratulations, eh?

HMCS(FMF) ret

Congrats, HOSER!

AnotherPat

mikenienrcharlie: Congrats on being First!

And Happy Remembrance Day tomorrow. 😊

Yef

Eff canada

A Proud Infidel®™

HEY Yef, Canada STILL gives us plenty of good brew and Hockey. Thus I say to you, TAKE OFF, HOSER!!!

Thunderstixx

HEY, take off !!!
Congrats Canuck !!!
Long live the PPCLI !!!

Ex-PH2

Second! And I mean it!

Graybeard

But first in our hearts, Ex-PH2.

Ex-PH2

You’re sweet, Graybeard.

And because it’s trying to snow in my Kingdom, I provide the following bit of sustenance: Country Chicken Casserole (from a Campbell’s cookbook) and it serves 5 people, unless they’re starving, in which case, increase accordingly.

You need:
1 can condensed Cream of Celery soup
1 can condensed Cream of Potato soup
1 cup of milk
1/4 teaspoon of crushed dried thyme leaves
1/8 teaspoon of coarse black pepper
4 cups of mixed vegetables (I use the frozen mix of peas, corn, carrots, etc., thawed in running hot water
2 cups of diced cooked chicken or turkey (leftovers!!!)

1 1/2 cups of water
4 tablespooons of butter
4 cups of seasoned stuffing, your choice of flavor – basically fix a box of stuffing for this following the package directions

Stir the soups, milk, thyme, pepper, veggies and chicken together, into a 13 x 2 x 9 inch baking pan

Cover the chicken/veggie mix with the prepared stuffing. Yes, use all of it.

Bake at 400F for 25 minutes, or until hot. If it’s done, you’ll be able to smell the scent of thyme.

You can substitute chopped celery for and Cream of Chicken soup for the cream of celery soup, if you prefer.

It’s filling, tasty and good on a cold winter night, uses up leftover chicken, and can be expanded or reduced to fit the number of people having it for dinner.

Also, fix cornbread, corn muffins or biscuits to go with it; crudites (cut up veggies like carrots and zukes) or a green salad; and for afters, a nice dessert like pumpkin pie with whipped cream or apple pie with ice cream. Beverages of your choice to accompany.

If your kids won’t eat this, they aren’t really hungry.

Graybeard

Yum yum!

I’ll have to share this with the mothers in my family.

Ex-PH2

You do know that this is what your mom used to do with all those canned soups from Campbells back in the 1950s, right?

This one, and the green bean/mushroom soup/onion rings go right where they belong, on the dinner table.

RM3(SS)

3rd!

Yef

FIRTS!!!!!!!11111

Yef

WTF?

I was first!

Commissioner Wretched

No, you weren’t! You were FIRTS!!

Yef

I blame it on Jonn, for make me type my name and email every time I post.

Graybeard

I believe that is your browser and the settings you have for cookies.

My work ‘puter will keep my info until I either open another browser window, or some minutes have passed between postings. My home puters’ settings (which I control) are different.

The Stranger

Top 10

Sj

We know where the DRG is this week.

I,m wondering what happened to the Commie LT? He hasn’t been on the radar anywhere for a couple of weeks?

Ex-PH2

Count your blessings.

Sj

Why? I’d like to know what actions have been taken…if any.

Just An Old Dog

Depending on how newsworthy it is there may not be much released. There is also the fact that administrative or punitive action may take a while.

Ex-PH2

All I know is that he became persona non grata.

Sj

What does that mean? Did he get thrown out? Did he have to pay for his education? Have the Service academies’ leadership had their asses handed to them for letting this go on and preventing it in the future?

Ex-PH2

Hmmm… I may have mixed on commie O-type with another.

There was the one from La-La-Land who annoyed all of us and was put in his place.

And then there was the little smart-ass at one of the academies who got busted for his behavior.

They are two sides of the same coin.

sj

Not really. The Commie LT (using Jonn’s title) sucked in a West Point education that we all paid for. The reports by TAC AND academic officers indicated that he was a disaster from the beginning and the USMA swept it under the rug. Plus bad juju from the Ranger school that makes one wonder how he ever gained admission to USMA.

And now this asshole is a LT “leading” troops. What is the Green Machine doing about it? Is the USMA fixing this or are they producing more of these LT’s? That is what I’m asking.

This is not trivial because Academy grads (all Services) infiltrate the officer billets and have a huge influence on the officer corps in their Service.

Ex-PH2

Is he really leading troops, or is he a desk jockey answering phones and taking messages?

Commissioner Wretched

If my limited math skills haven’t deserted me …

7TH!!!

(I think.)

Former EM1/SS

top 10! Participation trophies all around

NHSparky

Good job! Now go hang your tagout and do the quarterlies on the MGs!

Graybeard

Dang. Top 20. pfffft

LC

Getting the weekend off to a good start for the men here, the DailyMail had another story about a Marine you might want to know. I’m sure she makes even crayon-chewing look great:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5061939/Ex-marine-reveals-quit-army-glamour-modelling.html

Graybeard

Meh.

David

I am so sorry to hear of your apparent demise. Meh?

HMCS(FMF) ret

She can whip me, beat me and make me write bad checks for the rest of my natural life…

Sparks

First, looking at her in uniform and then a bikini says, “them ain’t real”. Second, I do not find her attractive. Just me. One of the photo captions reads, “the stunning blonde”. Blonde? Really? The carpet definitely does not match the drapes. Her beauty, does not lie in the eye of this beholder. YMMV

Perry Gaskill

My own first thought on the bikini photo was that you don’t get many of those in a pound…

Yef

I don’t know.

I can tell she is hot, but something feels off.
She doesn’t work for me.

Is she a shemale or transvestite?

I don’t know what it is, but something deep in my Laser Radar didn’t wake up by looking at her pictures.
That ain’t normal.
Something is off with her.

Ex-PH2

A – No, they’re not real. When they look like grapefruit halves, they are implants.
B – She’s a Blonde by Preference/L’Oreal
C – Why do these silly newspapers never give us girls the hunky men in tight pants? SOOOOO unfair!!!!

Aysel

if you want hunky men go to Michael Stokes photography on facebook, he’s got plenty for you and most are veterans/first responders. your welcome 😉

Ex-PH2

I did go. Hubba hubba!

Frankie Cee

Whattaya mean “not real”? Dow Chemical Gel is very real. And yes, they are “her own”, she bought and paid for the insertions.

Skippy

Late again
Alive and kicking

aGrimm

142nd! I like to match my IQ; or is it my golf average? One of those.

Frankie Cee

This has been a great week. Yesterday saw the culmination of over 6 years of following, chasing, tracking, and other work to put a stop to the harassment of innocent people by serial scammer, STOLEN VALORIST KYLE CHRISTOPER BARWAN. He is finally prison bound, where he can run his scams on others of his low stature. I enjoy creating digital graphics, and this is one of my favorites:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210605685073446&set=rpd.1086639350&type=3&theater

Cheese Eater McBlobfish

I’m already taking advantage with these Veterans Day discounts and free food. But, one thing that I can’t stand are these phonies up there trying to get the same food. I had to wait in line, just to get in and fight through a crowd of veterans and non veterans, but it was worth it.

They wanted to kick me out for eating like a killer wale, and looking like it, but they couldn’t bring about kicking a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel wearing his uniform. I could make things easy on myself by not threatening phony veterans by telling them that I would eat them if they don’t get out of my way.

Cheese,
Dennis Howard Chevalier
Denny H. Chevalier

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Turns out one of those two dimwits lost at sea has a semi-sordid past…maybe they weren’t as stranded as they’d like you to believe….

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5063707/Bungling-yachtswoman-kinky-sailor-dominatrix.html#ixzz4xy1UTj1C

Sj

I don’t think even IDC-SARC would get on that boat. The one has been rode hard and put away wet a lot. The other is a 250# Samoan security guard. Wow.

Hack Stone

Looking at those photographs give Hack a handoff.

Hack Stone

That should read “hardoff”. Hack Stone Publishing regrets the error.

SFC D

Is that something like a raging softon?

Graybeard

So many comments I could make.

Perry Gaskill

It’s painful to see a couple of sailboats abused like those in the Daily Mail story. The paper also seems to get distracted by Appel’s kinky stuff, and ignores an interesting question:

In January 2012, Appel was living on the FSOW in Honolulu, and wrecked it on the seawall rocks at the entrance to a harbor. Flash forward four years, and Appel is broke and living on the 50-foot Sea Nymph after trying to run a failed organic farm. Where did she get the money for the second boat? Given the local market, it would have been worth about $60,000.

Graybeard

I believe it says “after paying for the trip by working as a dominatrix and an exotic dancer”, and she wrote pr0n.
It also refers to some “boyfriends”, some of whom possibly contributed to her boat fund.

I suspect that she is a highly paid call girl as well.

That is, not only is she an attention whore, she is a well-paid whore. Supposedly.

rgr769

Glad you added that “supposedly.” Slander/libel per se includes, without proof of actual damages, accusing any female of promiscuity. (Note: if you say a woman is a prostitute or will have sex with our IDC-SARC, you need to be right.)

David

whereas if you say she is a woman with whom IDC-SARC would have sex, you’d be hard-pressed to be wrong. That boy would hit the crack of dawn.

Sparks

Wow, talk about two fugly broads! One is 250 pounds of ugly and the other lists to the bow with that bluetick schnoz of hers. Everyone here called this from day one. A book deal play. Only it will be bad porn and with her image in a readers mind and real fire starter, literally.

Sparks

“a real fire starter…” darned brain farts.

rgr769

If she could get a head transplant, she could really be hawt. But, that is not happening. So, from the neck up she is pretty fugly.

OAE CPO USN Ret

I wonder if she’s any relation to the other Appel that’s featured on the pages of TAH.

http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=18709

gitarcarver@hotmail.com

Florida….yes, FLORIDA. (Melbourne in Brevard County to be exact.)

As Veterans Day approaches Saturday, a total of 21 similar scenes have played out in the Melbourne hospital’s MICU. Most of those have been funded through the Health First Foundation, and Harrell hopes the program continues to grow.

The idea to present flags to families during their darkest hours wasn’t something scripted in a meeting room. It was a spur-of-the-moment, emotionally charged reaction from nurses.

Less than a year before, fellow RN Jake Phillips had a dying patient whose son he had bonded with.

“Somewhere in the conversation, it came up that his father was in the service,” Phillips said of the Korean War vet. “He said, ‘Hey, do you guys provide a flag or anything?’ I was like, ‘No we don’t. But we should.’ ”

Read more here:

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/09/hospital-bedside-tribute-honors-dying-veterans/849847001/

Frankie Cee

Bravo Zulu Holmes Regional Medical Center.

Sparks

I have great respect for this outfit for doing this. Well done and keep it up folks.

Frankie Cee

People around my area often ask why I carry concealed everywhere I go. Many say that we are so far from the city life that we are safe. This morning’s failed kidnapping story in the Feel Good post is in my area. The “Dintdonuffin” punks are from an area 4 miles East of me, while the intended victims live 5 miles north of me. If the punks would stay in their ghetto neighborhood, I would be alright. But the little bastards have cars to carry their efforts out of their community, and into the areas where I live, shop, and play. “ALWAYS ARMED, ALWAYS ALERT”

Graybeard

Unfortunately, the scum doesn’t always stay in the pond.

The GB Compound is in a remote area of East Texas – but that’s where the meth cookers like to hide. We once had a neighborhood posse convene to convince some dopeheads that they were not welcome anywhere in our AO. They got the message (and we notified the SO as well.)

Not only do the adults carry, the youth have a pretty good knowledge of their way around a gun – as some chicken-eating varmints have learned the hard way.

RM3(SS)

Although the ghetto trash might live in a crappy area, they like to “go shopping” for victims in areas where there’s more to get.
Plus, everyone in their neighborhood knows who they are.

AnotherPat

Even though Veterans Day is tomorrow, my family and I wish to express our gratitude and Thank You to all TAH Veterans who served our country, past and present.

Also want to extend that gratitude to TAH members who may not had the opportunity to serve, but still support us. Thank You. It means alot.

My family and I frequently post this Video on TAH to remind all that it does not matter which Service we were in or if we even wore an uniform in one of the Sister Services. We are Americans. We should be proud of our Flag, whether we raise it (Iwo Jima) honor it (in schools, games,events, outside our homes) wear it or salute it.

Please watch the video when you have the chance. It is called “Reveille Patriotic American Veteran Tribute”. It is 9 minutes, but worth every minute. It might get dusty in your AO. Thank You.

A Proud Infidel®™

I’ve seen that video multiple times and the room STILL always gets dusty at the end!

AnotherPat

Same here, API. Same here.

Ret_25X

Fortyleventh! Yay!

Happy Armistice Day my friends!

Wilted Willy

Sorry I wasn’t mauling my F5 key today, work got in the way, even thought I am off duty today. I will work harder next week. Happy Veterans Day to all that served! I hope my pos brother chokes on his free food today!

Steve

Remembrance Day in Australia today. Have to remember to pick up a poppy.

Graybeard

Used to see the poppies being sold everywhere. I just may not be in the right places at the right time.

Mick

Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom tomorrow.

The Brits always put on a very dignified and moving ceremony.

Devtun

I hear the poppy thing started in the US after WW1, and was picked up by the Brits & Ozzies.

David

education nowadays. John McRae, a Canadian wrote “In Flandersd Fields” in WWI after one of the battles of Ypres. You NBC NCOs should know that one from the first use of chlorine gas:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Devtun

The poppy worn as a symbol of remembrance was started by American professor Moina Michael & adopted by the American Legion. Yes “In Flanders Fields” was an inspiration. The Brits & others followed the American Legion’s adoption of the Remembrance red poppy. Cheers.

OWB

It was and is the VFW that does the Buddy Poppy program. It’s been around for 75 years. (No, I haven’t been personally involved with it quite that long.)

https://www.vfw.org/community/community-initiatives

Hack Stone

Sorry that it took Hack so long to post, but with sales at the proud but humble woman owned business taking a nosedive, the CEO & Acting VP of Sales, with a storied past in startups, turnarounds, launches and public IPO’s decided that if the sales staff stood on the off ramps of the Capital Beltway spinning arrows advertising software, we just might meet last years sales of $14.

Tallywhagger

Hey, I think I saw those vendors on the Connecticut Ave off ramp heading towards Kensington, about walking distance to the creek.

One of them was trying tp raffle off tickets to win a one-owner ’77 Vega along with a wide selection of hub caps and some autographed Nighthawks albums!

propsguy

Hmm, Veterans day again. I used to get maudlin about it , hide in my condo and drink WAY too much, but not anymore.

Looking back now it’s been 10 years ( God where did the time go?) since my last deployment to Iraq. My youngest daughter was in second grade. I missed it, SHe’s a senior now.

My oldest daughter just had a baby a few weeks ago, Holy crap I’m a grandfather, how in hell did THAT happen? 😀

So for this weekend I am actually going to say, to all my fellow Veterans, have a HAPPY veterans day.

Some vets get offended by that particular turn a phrase but I mean in in the true spirit of happiness. We went and did crappy jobs in crappy places , usually working for at least a few crappy officers or senior nco’s here and there . 😉 And we came home, and got on with life
Good and bad things happened and we moved on .

So I for one will have a FEW drinks this weekend, and we can remember who we are and who we served with and what we did, and be happy with who we have become and proud of who we were.

Have a good weekend all.

Graybeard

Raise one for those deployed as well.

I have a son who is somewhere on the dark continent for this Veterans’ Day. It is always a somber time when he’s deployed. Thank God for electronic communications equipment that allows him to see pictures and videos of his little 7-month-old bundle of joy and speak, circumspectly, with the love of his life.

RM3(SS)

What makes me uncomfortable is the throw away “thank you for your service”. It’s become just a phrase like “hello how are you”.
https://military.id.me/community-news/dont-say-thank-you-for-your-service/

To all my fellow veterans Welcome Home!

AnotherPat

RM3(SS):

Hmmmm. Interesting. Majority of folks whom I personally do not know tell me “Thank You for serving our country”. This is mostly from telephone conversations from TRICARE, USAA, VFW, Military Hospitals, my bank or face to face interaction with stores/hotels/resturants/movie theaters when I ask for a Military Discount and provide my Military ID card.

I tell fellow Veterans the same thing after conversations instead of “good-bye”i.e.folks I meet at military functions/ reunions/parades/airports/USO that I personally do not know, but are aware they served.

I guess I felt different than the writer when folks told me “Welcome Home. Thank you so much for your service”. I felt they sincerely meant it, especially after I returned to the US after a 2 year back to back deployment for OEF/OIF (Dec 2001-Dec 2003). Those thoughtful words and their support meant alot to this Soldier.

We all have different perceptions. Nothing wrong with that. If we all thought alike, life would be boring.

Thank you for sharing the article from a different viewpoint.

Sapper3307

Everybody needs to a drink in honor of the SlEpManComTH being booze free for over a week.

Graybeard

I propose a toast:

“To the Dutch Rudder Gang! May they rot in the hell they have created for themselves!”

rgr769

Ditto. They should reap what they have sown. Karma should always be a reliable mistress.

Ex-PH2

“May they wallow in the slop of their own creation.”

The Stranger

He’s gotta be hurtin’ from the DTs. Oh well, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

A Proud Infidel®™

MAY life from here on be every bit as nice to each and every member of The Dutch Rudder Gang as they have been to the people they have targeted and harassed!!!!

Perry Gaskill

Cool photo. The sea anemone has unusual coloration.

For the sake of accuracy, the caption information needs a minor correction. The way the clownfish-anemone symbiosis works is that the clownfish acts as a lure to attract larger predators who don’t see the anemone as a threat. Once within range, the anemone uses the poison in its tentacles to stun the larger fish and eat it. At that point, the second function of the clownfish kicks in. Being immune to anemone poison, the clownfish feeds on the leftover debris of the bigger fish which also cleans the anemone and keeps it healthy.

Graybeard

Almost sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel.

A Proud Infidel®™

Hey WAIT, he might have the Psychological affliction known as Bernathia Fuellevelosis, an inability to judge an aircraft’s fuel level and the inability to take responsibility for the consequences!

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

So, a wee ‘lil update from alternate FOB.

I was to visit TAH Worldwide HQ on Veteran’s Day rather than out a POSER at the NYC Veteran’s Day America’s Parade, however I hopped a fixed wing from JFK to Dublin and arrived just in time to take care of more important duties.

Today I lament about who I am, where I came from, what my parents did for me … on my sixth anniversary of my retirement from the US Navy … USMC B-Day.

So today, my dear departed father was not there for his baby sister, but I was.

http://notices.irishtimes.com/death/hoey-sr-rachel/51571240

Jonn lets reschedule the TAH Worldwide HQ US Army & US Navy Conference soonest.

Till then I will be hitting every pub in Dublin.

MCPO at FOB DUBS

Hondo

Condolences, MCPO.

I’m sure she was in heaven half an hour before the devil got word she was gone.

NHSparky

Prayers up, Master Chief.

AnotherPat

MCPO NYC USN Ret: Am sorry about the loss of your Aunt.

Prayers and comfort for the family. She is with God now.

Commissioner Wretched

My deepest condolences on your loss, Master Chief.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

Thanks all.

The sadness is modified with Irish whiskey and stout to spurs of happiness, song and stories about summers growing up in Dublin.

Ex-PH2

My condolences to you and your extended family, Master Chief.

Sparks

My deepest sympathies Master Chief. God be with your family Sir.

11B-Mailclerk

They just cashiered a USMC DI for creatively treating a recruit like shit, and a few other things. He drew a reduction to E-1, DD, 10 years, forfeiture, etc.

So
creative abuse of USMC recruits and drunkenness

is considered worse than

desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over.

This is beyond “fucked up”.

Ex-PH2

Gee whiz, I’d like more details about this. Marine DIs of all sexes are supposed to be harsh, loud and obnoxious, aren’t they?

Did this one make a recruit cry, or did he do something really naughty?

Hack Stone

He pushed the envelope. A lot. He (allegedly) put a Muslim recruit into an industrial clothes dryer. Hack must have had a dental appointment when his platoon received that training.

Ex-PH2

Okay, if that is true, it is going too far, period.

This would be the second time this is supposed to have happened, wouldn’t it? But didn’t the first time turn out to be a lot of baloney?

A Proud Infidel®™

72rd or 73th and HONORARY FIRST yet again!!!

Thunderstixx

Well; I’ve been working since about the time that the WOT comes out so as usual I’m the two hundred and twenty tooth.
But since Veteran’s Day is tomorrow I want to thank everybody for serving, it was an honor to serve and although it didn’t seem like it at the time, it truly was.
As we all know Ken Burns did that hatchet job on the Vietnam War and along with the political hatchet job he implied that we had a bunch of useless military people serving during the war that were more interested in getting high than they were about saving |Vietnam from communist rule.
Well, PJ Media bring this article that is more than well worth the read for the answer to Burns and his stupid anti American screed…
I am so sick of these fucks. I’m glad I’m old, I’ll be dead in a few years and not have to listen to it anymore…
Hopefully, quite a few years, but before the shit really hits the fan, as it will, sooner or later it’s gonna blow…
Well worth the read my friends: https://pjmedia.com/trending/vietnam-veterans-set-record-straight-after-pbs-tv-series-whitewashes-communism/

rgr769

I watched about 10 or 15 minutes of Ken Burns left wing propaganda about the Vietnam War and quickly determined where he was coming from. It was strictly anti-American from start to finish. One might as well have asked the opinions of the war protesters for their take on the war, and one would have received the same point of view. Fagot Ken was just as effective in his cameo performance in Gettysburg as in this piece of shyte.

26Limabeans

“10 or 15 minutes”

That long eh?

Ken Burns reminds me of Steppie Steppenopolis. Same physical features and an identical hate for the military.

rgr769

I was trying to give it the benefit of the doubt, but after the third or fourth lefty “veteran” saying everything we did there was wrong, I figured out it was a proggie version of history and nothing more.

Ex-PH2

Gee, I wish Ken Burns had been at one of those villages where Uncle Ho ordered a massacre, at the time it happened. He needs to be enlightened AS TO what an ass he is.
This link is to an article about Uncle Ho’s treatment of people who resisted his politics.
https://cherrieswriter.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/vcnva-terrorist-doctrine/

In case no one was paying attention, Pres. Trump is in Vietnam now for an economic summit. The Vietnamese government is much more friendly toward the US than it was a while ago, because China is still threatening them. DaNang certainly does look different in the lead photo in this article than it did in the 1960s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/world/asia/trump-apec-danang-vietnam-china.html

rgr769

It likely looks different now because it is full of those multiple new factories making our shoes and boots.

Thunderstixx

I was honored to serve with many real heroes from Vietnam and am so glad that I had the chance to meet and work with so many of them.
Welcome home to all of you that served over there, the work you did will never be forgotten by those of us that know.
And the rest of them can kiss my ass…

Hack Stone

I hope that Daniel Bernath enjoys his free Veteran’s Day meal provided by the taxpayers of Chesapeake, Virginia.

26Limabeans

Will there be a parading?

Hack Stone

In solidarity with the NFL National Anthem protesters, Daniel Bernath will be on both knees this weekend.

Ex-PH2

My he, the sLrUrPer, and the crybaby enjoy their plates of crow.

AnotherPat

Hack: Actually, he is now in Portsmouth, VA (unless they moved him back).

Frankie Cee

Of one of us knew where the Hampton Roads corrections officers stop off for a cold one after work, one could offer a night of free drinks to have one of them say, softly, as Bernath lays in his bunk: “I am Hondo”. Let him sleep on that, or just lay there pondering whether or not the C.O. was really Hondo.

Skippy

😂😂😂
That is the funniest that I’ve read all week

Skippy

Thing I’ve read
F-ing spell check

Ex-PH2

Don’t toy with us, Frankie.

How’s about everyone send a Christmas card to someone who really needs them, all signed Hondo?

IDC SARC

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

SFC D

Address, STAT!

Skippy

😂😂😂

propsguy

Troll level : GODLIKE!!!!!

You sir are a genius.

😀

SFC D

Frankie, you’re an evil bastard and I’m proud to call you my friend!

A Proud Infidel®™

I have heard rumor that NOT ONLY D. Bernath is merely a disbarred Attorney in California, he is ALSO STILL an inmate in some other State AND is wanted in a few others.

Green Thumb

The “False” Commander and CEO of All-Points Logistics “Phony” Phil Monkress works balls.

Hack Stone

Since this is a holiday weekend, will Phil Monkress be working balls on the abbreviated holiday schedule, 08:00 – 11:00 and 15:00 – 17:00?

Skippy

At any nearby TA Tuck stop or this weekend only also PETRO and Flying J locations in the US and Canada

Sparks

Army guy question for my Navy brothers. I am watching again, a series called, “The Pacific”. Great series by the way. As the Marines were going over the side and the leaders were shouting, “hands on the vertical, feet on the horizontal”, I understood the importance. I saw something though. There were Navy Sailors who steered the landing craft with what looked like a near horizontal steering wheel. What was or is their rate or job called? I was thinking Cockswain (sometimes I see it spelled Coxswain) but I am not sure. Thank you for your help. Google does not give a definite answer.

Ex-PH2

It was either the Coxswain or the Bosun’s Mate, but without the rate badge visible, I couldn’t give a correct answer.

Sparks

Thank you milady. I could not see, in the speed and short duration a rate badge. I hope you are having a good Veteran’s Day.

Ex-PH2

I am having a nice, quiet Vets’ Day.

Skippy

I have a good deal on a home in Tucson, Az if anybody is interested, it’s 3 bedrooms 2 baths located in the Silverbell and Goret area which would be the west northwest side of town. it’s miserably hot here year round. home was built in 1999 and was recently remodeled if anyone is interested please message me

Skippy

I’d be willing to trade to if anyone one is interested
Also when I say HOT I mean it’s hot hear it was 93 here today it’s been nonstop since February
And there is no break in site for any snow birds out here

Devtun

Damn, Auburn just smacked #1 Georgia 40-17. Alabama is laughing their arses off – the Tide are still king until someone proves otherwise. Georgia probably still stays in the top 4.

rgr769

I clicked on the link-almost ruined the day for me. Every time I see its picture I need a barf bag.

Skippy

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Ex-PH2

Well, when it gets raped for real, it will be sorry it ever decided to make such a fuss. After a while, no one will remember its name.

Ex-PH2

This should bring the weekend to a pleasant conclusion. From what I could see in these video clips, there were maybe 3 to 15 people throwing tantrums as these few rallies. As the narrator says ‘This is what Soros is spending his $18 billion on?’

If they aren’t ridiculous, what are they?

OWB

Moon bats. Crazy, screaming loons.

rgr769

Correction: “Moonbats” is one word, otherwise we would unnecessarily disparage the real winged mammals who fly when the moon is up. The guy who hosts the “Moonbattery.com” website would likely concur.

Ex-PH2

5,000 of them… across the country…. five thousand total…. across the country…. showed up to throw tempter tantrums.

Is it any real wonder that a lot of them can’t get jobs that pay anything like a living wage? Or any jobs at all?

A Proud Infidel®™

I assume most of them demand a $15 an hour minimum wage while they rack up student debt obtaining the oh, so important four year degree in something like Art History or Gender Studies while that kid who lived down the block went to school to become an Electrician, Plumber or Welder and has job offers out the wazoo as well as a good income and he’s out working to earn an honest living!

Ex-PH2

Well, as PJW tells us, it IS the day care generation, the 14-year-olds who are physically 18 or 19 and have to have safe spaces in college.

If they need a ‘safe space’, why are they away from home?

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

27 Pubs so far.

Long time favorite is Searson’s on Baggot Street.

Oldest favorite is Braven Head est. 1193.

Most ackward favorite is the Queer Leprachaun, had no idea it was a gay bar, although you never would have know it … ’till you look at the sign outside …

Anyhow, trying to hit 75 before returning.

Yes, eleven hundred ninety three.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

Correction: my cousin reminds me it was atctually 1198 … like that really matters when the customers back then were Vikings and the early Irish who beat the Viking pussies out of town.

HA!

just some feller

Those were Normans from England! And we ruled Waterford for many years thereafter.

(^_____^)

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

Norman’s, Vikings … all pussies.

HA!

Anonymous

Well, shit. If this story is true, two guys from DEVGRU straight up murdered SSG Melgar, the 3rd Group guy in Mali who died:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/green-beret-discovered-seals-illicit-cash-then-he-was-killed

(This is a follow-up to the article here: http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=75661 )