Lots to blog about, no energy to do it. However I was interested to see GI Korea explain why we just wasted 12 weeks of our lives working on a pointless project. At the time, the project director said that we HAD to get this thing done before the Korean
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Is this really necessary?
Navy Times has been digging around about the recent return to communism change in liberty rules on USS Kitty Hawk. Its not a pretty story. In a nutshell , the leadership thinks that treating Sailors like children is somehow a productive way to improve conduct ashore: So you’ve got liberty
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Only a moron would thnk that working till 5:30 pm when you have a dinner commitment with Koreans is a good idea…….. As for what we got done today? Well here is the story in three panels: You want it bad, you get it bad!
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Refueling American ships is not the only thing the JSDF is going to stop doing. They are going to stop flying US cargo. I say good, its about time the USAF was made to own up to the truth. Namely that it has enough airlift here in Asia-but it is
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From George Bush’s playbook. If Congress won’t give you what you want-just ignore them. The new Prime Minister has drafted a new version of the Special Anti-terrorism law-the one that allows JMSDF oilers (unlike our navy properly manned by Sailors) to refuel coalition ships in the Indian Ocean. Kenji Yamaoka,
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Well today was a downer just like I expected it to be. My brain is mush. Worst part of these past few days is knowing that with a little more thought and a lot less ego on the part of those setting up this particular fiasco evolution we could be a
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Gen Petreaus and Ambassador Crocker that is. Finally, after 7 long months of hearing the song, “All we are saying, is give war a chance.”, the most awaited report since the Revelation to John is about to hit the streets. A like the final book of the bible, its pretty
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Nothing becomes UFL like the leaving of it. The mommy Air Force kept the hordes on the base last night so Songtan was pretty dead on a night that should have been full of hard partying. Of course the military folks just loaded up on beer and drank themselves silly
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Fun is fun. But I am done. After two weeks of ever increasing despair and frustration, the ordeal of Ultimate FutiLity has come to an end. God willing, I won’t be doing another one. I may be back in the states, living off unemployment and food stamps, but I have
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How the work has been going this week. I refer you back to here. Hemlock’s advice still holds-1 year later. Subscribe in a reader
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