Sorry… been saving this for Sunday, but I dunno If I’ll have power tomorrow! Although this this clip does remind me of Jonn and TSO (facial hair?) I’ll ask if you can picture two nuclear powers elsewhere doing this? Thanks OWB.
I must speculate that our guys in Berlin at those border crossings were NOT as spiffy?
Day 8 of no grid power, BTW. I just couldn’t leave this to chance.
Chow?
Been out of The Navy for over 40 years and my memory is sometimes shaky, but this story puzzles me some.
As executive chef for Vice President Joe Biden, Chief Culinary Specialist (SW) Thomas McNulty cooks for some of the world’s most powerful people using some of the same skills the Navy hopes will make the food sailors eat tastier and healthier.
“The culinary world has blown up, and I think it’s a natural progression that the military and the Navy have seen that we just can’t sit in an archaic era,” McNulty, a 14-year veteran, told Navy Times.
Somehow I always knew that officers country was a “special” place, and that airdales were weird, but this is something well the other side of odd:
CSSN Quindell Jenkins paid close attention to the pep talk his watch captain gave the day before the meal.
“He spoke to all of us before the Asian-Pacific meal where we have to carve baby pigs on the carving station,” Jenkins said.
Yes, that’s suckling pig served on an aircraft carrier in the middle of a combat mission in the Persian Gulf.
I remember powdered eggs, reconstituted milk, and bug juice among other culinary treats. If we were on the gun line we’d maybe even get baloney sandwiches for three meals. We even got to relish C-Rats during extended GQ sessions.
Lookit I’m all for anything that improves the life of a sailor at sea, but is this emphasis on epicurean delights REALLY important? Does your average sailor rush ashore looking for the local gourmet eatery in each port?
I just don’t remember it that way?
Added via the comments, thanks:
I posted the reference before.
Friends, still need to raise $310 to pay for web hosting for They Have Names for the next two years. I begin leave on Monday until August and the hosting ends mid-August so I won’t have much time after I get back. Remember that I’m sending a hat to anyone that donates $20 or more through the site. Please share on your pages.
Please check it out. They have names.
For some of us The Names are on a wall in DC.
No power, no water here, but THIS cracked me up!
This the text, but ya gotta watch the video:
Be PREPARED – supply yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse with Zombie Max™ ammunition from Hornady®! Loaded with PROVEN Z-Max™ bullets… yes PROVEN Z-Max™ bullets (have you seen a Zombie?). Make sure your “bug out bag” is ready with nothing but the best!
And you think us preppers are nuts?
This post – posted without electricity BTW, was actually prompted by Jonn’s post even if somewhat off topic.
NUGENT: Celebrate when good conquers evil
There is so much good news that goes largely unreported that it makes me want to scream. As I write this, just a couple of days ago, a 14-year-old boy in Phoenix who was watching his three siblings at home shot a punk who busted through a door and pointed a gun at the young man.
This is an incredibly wonderful news story that should be the lead story on the evening network news. It should be the front-page story in the New York Times. The Sunday morning talking heads should talk about it.
But it won’t be covered by the media. Outside of the Phoenix area and this opinion piece in The Washington Times, this wonderful good-news story will not be heard or read. What a shame.
I thought I was paranoid, but The Nuge explains why I’m not.
CJ offers this: They Have Names.
CJ posts everywhere except here…. I get to do this!
As TSO points out here there IS a bill pending that may actually be a better option for dealing with Stolen Valor anyway.
The Summary:
Stolen Valor Act of 2011 – Amends the federal criminal code to subject an individual who, with intent to obtain anything of value, knowingly makes a misrepresentiation regarding his or her military service to: (1) a fine, one year’s imprisonment, or both if the misrepresentation is that such individual served in a combat zone or in a special operations force or was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; and (2) a fine, six months’ imprisonment, or both, in any other case. Provides that: (1) this Act shall not apply to a misrepresentation that an individual did not serve in the Armed Forces, and (2) it is a defense to prosecution that the thing of value is de minimis.
Time to shake off this set back and get to work!
62 years ago today North Korea crossed the 38th parallel.
US: 36,940 dead
92,134 wounded
3,737 MIA
4,439 POW
And to complete the quote: “are condemned to repeat it” Santayana
Just a FYI sort of reminder.