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Micael don't wait too long to do it. My Mom always wanted to travel, Dad less so. The year she finally convinced him to stop working during part time and travel was the same year she had her stroke. That stopped the travel idea. One reason I retired so I could travel. I just need to get more done w...

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 6:35 pm Not me- I prefer big V8s- but my cousin always says that “a Mini is better than sex”…

Your cousin needs to up their game. Minis are fun (and comfortable) to drive, but they’re not that good.

Not to open a pointless debate about women in combat, and certainly not a slight on the women in HM‘s armed forces, but in my opinion, the situation in a peer vs. peer war would be much, MUCH different. I also have my ear on the ground in the current Bundeswehr, and nine out of ten (anecdotal) stor...

My experience with USPS has been generally good, aside from my ability to crash their systems with my presence and a box of donuts that they took on a two week tour of Seattle (the donuts were fine). I like the daily email summary of incoming mail and packages, and individual emails about tracking p...

Kids are super resilient. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that as long as all the pieces are in the same room they’ll be good as new. It’s also to your son’s credit that he was able to keep up his spirit and be brave enough to banter with EMS despite what was probably a lot of pain. That abil...

Thank you. Yes, I *know* the procedure is routinely routine. So was my hernia, deferred as non-urgent too long, became 'complex'. As I'm currently down to peripheral vision on left and #murky on right, cannot see, never mind grok my scrawled notes for next phase of Fresno, I'm feeling a tad vulnera...

Ok, everyone chill. Cataracts are easy . They have this down to an assembly line job. You’re in, you’re out, and the worst bits are the anticipation and the eye drops (half of them ran down my face - they should have just given them to me in a bucket). All you see is a fancy light show. I was back i...

On the Midway? No, my former residence is now a museum in San Diego Harbor. I wonder if your office is still there? The Ready Room is! The E-2 Ready Room has been renovated into a great museum about the Hummer squadrons and the people. The Association raised the funds and lotsa of momentos honoring...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:14 am It’s real!
It is a very weird combination!

It’s logical if you view an objective of sport as keeping the military-age population fit for military service.

Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 11:03 am

Johnnie Lyle wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 6:12 am Point of order.

Why not, Minot was not a name for the installation.

It was the tourist bureau ad campaign slogan.

maybe so but we tacked the response to it and the whole thing stuck.

Getting stuck in Minot violates the 8th Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

Point of order.

Why not, Minot was not a name for the installation.

It was the tourist bureau ad campaign slogan.

Why not? Minot!

The whole place - civilian or military - is just that weird.

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 11:21 am

Johnnie Lyle wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:37 am “Draw me like you do your French pilots”

I had a mouthful of coffee when I read that.

HAD.

Mike

You signed the waiver. Check paragraph 666, subsection 4.

“Draw me like you do your French pilots”

Good chapter! 1745 hours GMT, Near NAS Barbers Point, O’ahu. “Are you worried about that MD500 that’s tracking us?” Commander McGarrett asked. “It’s flying overwatch; couple of friends of Magnum. I felt that their bird would be more discrete than an HPD, or military chopper.” Both Chase and Purdey ...

While I did not watch either reboot regularly, Higgins struck me as the most capable and having the smallest ego on both shows. Are the Soviets trying to see if they can get everyone mad that them simultaneously? Honor graduates of the Kaiser Wilhelm School of Making Friends and Influencing People....

So far we've had the original comic (great) the film (pretty good) the sequel TV series (great) and now the animated version. Well it is pretty much the comic turned directly into a cartoon. I'm not quite sure what the point is. If you've read the comic or seen the film then this is just a low res ...

You could have had the Type 26 you know. 😉 No we couldn't. USN can't have nice things. :D Sadly At this point we’d be a lot better off canceling the Constellation program and firing everyone involved. Then go out and contract with the various foreign shipyards that are building modern frigates and ...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 8:06 am You could have had the Type 26 you know.

We’d have done the same thing to it that we did to FREMM.