Archive for January, 2009

When I was in the National Guard, I was in a ROC unit.  ROC means Rear Operations Center, and it was the rear command post for the XVIII Airborne Corps.  What that means is that while the regular army guys ran the battle in the main command post, our job was to make sure that all of the supplies and replacements got up to the battle.  Our secondary mission was to take over the battle if the main command post was taken out.

Every year we had to take part in a War Fighter exercise.  War Fighters are exercises that help to train officers and senior sergeants how to run the headquarters.  Most captains have to take a staff position to get their ticket punched and prove that they are worthy for promotion to major.  Sergeants have to move to staff positions since most units don’t need a lot of master sergeants or sergeant majors.

The common thread here is that this is where they got trained for the staff jobs they had to do instead of leading soldiers in combat.

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Rejected Michael Bay Batman script

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Skippy, erectile I know you are aware of what/how we did back then and so do most of your readers.  But for the uninformed, ampoule let me provide a little background on the significance of this list.

As an enlisted MP, anabolics I was stationed in West Germany in the early 1980’s.  Like many other MP units, we were tasked with guarding munitions storage sites that contained “items vital to national security”, or very, very big bombs.  The ones that form mushroom clouds when they go off.

These storage sites were surrounded by a double fence and razor wire.  We were authorized to shoot anyone who breached the outer fence.  Typically each corner of the site had a tall tower in which an MP stood guard for hours at a time.  The main tower contained the one guard and a supervisor or, Commander of the Relief (COR).  Each tower had a telephone and a tactical radio for communication.

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And here it is as promised, yesterday’s list.

(Submitted by Nameless, to protect the innocent guilty

1.        “Spray and Pray” applies to many, many things that have nothing to do with mil-issued weapon systems.
2.       It’s not a great party until someone loses rank.
3.       Unless you have enough evidence to cause rank loss but are withholding it for whatever OPSEC reasons apply.
4.       While it is great to respect a Vet even if some choose to wear mil-issue clothes mixed with jeans to the bar after their discharge, it is unforgivably sad for a “vet” who was “wounded” right before entering a combat zone causing his medical discharge to do the same thing.
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It looks like me and my wife figured out how to work around the problem of the characters getting reversed.

So here are the new and improved Airport Security images.

This will also be the last time I mess with a language that uses a different alphabet on my site, because it always becomes a huge pain in the butt.

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So to depart from what has become my normal routine, I will give the list update tomorrow, so that I can bring an issue to your attention.

I was browsing through my daily news sites earlier in the week when I came across this article. For those too lazy to go and read up on the story I will summarize it briefly here.

Raed Jarrar, an American resident, tried to board a plane wearing a t-shirt that had Arabic Script on it.  Security stopped him, because they felt that printed Arabic was the equivalent of declaring “I am a terrorist”.  He was detained and ultimately was not allowed onto the plane until he agreed to cover the shirt up.

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1. The video of Zarqawi trying to fire the jammed SAW:  Pull, Look, Push.  Dumbass.
2.  Women’s Beach Volleyball: Drool…
3. I’m not apathetic, I just don’t care.
4. Democracy may not flow from the barrel of a gun, but al-Qada ain’t interested in Democracy anyway.
5. If Iraq was about the oil, why are the tankers taking it all to China?
6. If the USA truly was as repressive as the ACLU, Code Pink and CAIR all claim, why are those idiots still alive?
7. After a few beers feminists are easier on the eyes and as easy as any other lonely woman. Turn out the light.
8. Sure, most nymphos have a weight problem, but it’s not like you’re going to marry ’em.
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Normally, I try to keep my baseless, insane rage to a bare minimum.  Not only is it unattractive, but it creates a negative mindset that’s really hard to break out of. However, since I’ve been an unemployed loser for several months now, I’ve found that all I think about is negative shit, and if I don’t let some of it out, the dam is going to burst.  Plus, it’s a new year, and I feel compelled to start with a clean slate.

So, here is a brief list of things that piss me off:

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I’m starting my career as an advice columnist on Craigslist. See what you think….

Does time of day matter when dropping a note through someone’s mail slot? 01/04 21:15:06

I wrote 2 notes for my noisy neighbors. At first I considered talking to them, and almost drummed up the courage tonight. But I was tired and not in the mood to be friendly. With the other neighbors, I see the family sporadically and they seem friendly face to face so I don’t want to tarnish the respect. That’s why I’d rather use the note method of communication.

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So it turns out that putting Cyrillic fonts on my site was breaking it in all manner of fun ways, and so I have to change how this was set up.

Here’s an image of the list translated into Russian.

And here’s what happens when you used Google to change it back to English, which makes some parts of it way funnier than I originally wrote it.

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