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By Bill on June 28, 2011 | | Comments (8)

And the WH is wetting its pants concerned because these dirtbags turned their noses up at its Kum-Ba-Ya overtures?!?

Give each of our troops in AfStan a Barrett and fifty rounds, and tell them that fifty shredded black turbans gets them a two-week R&R in Sydney.

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By Quartermaster on June 28, 2011 6:54 AM
If Sydney is teh deal, you may find AFG totally denuded of its adult male population. I'm sure that's a feature and not a bug, however.

OTOH, not sure if Sydney is still the location of the type of debauchery our guys in 'nam knew in Sydney.
 
By Rivrdog on June 28, 2011 8:16 AM
Debauchery in Sydney? Personally, I never had to go beyond Sattahip Port next to U-Tapao to find it....
 
By DL Sly on June 28, 2011 11:16 AM
"Word"

Ditto
I second that emotion.
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By Old Quartermaster on June 28, 2011 12:17 PM
Make it Angeles City, PI and i'm in. Word is Olongapo ain't what it used to be.

Better make it 200 rounds, i'd have to practice with that big thing.

Back in the day, the Navy only required you to hit the ocean during small arms training. Hard to miss when you are two days out.
 
By Quartermaster on June 28, 2011 6:32 PM
 Old QM, the only thing I officially fired while in the fleet was a .22 rifle in boot. It was fun, however, trying to shoot flying fish with a Garand, or parachute flare at night with an M1919A5.

It was really funny to watch the gunner's mate demonstrate how to load and unload a Garand and see him catch his thumb when the bolt was going forawrd into battery. You hear all sorts of funny sounds when a man's thumb prevents the piece from going into battery.

Never fired a .45 while I was in. Fired one a number of times when I was teen at the Kelly AFB indoor range when my father was still in. I, of course, now own one.
 
By Quartermaster on June 28, 2011 6:34 PM
 The Algo Troll division of the sever Gnomes has sequestered a comment. And I've been such a good boy here, unlike over at Lex's place.
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 28, 2011 7:40 PM
Indeed it has. I will go post bail. You might still have to go to gnome-court.
 
By Old Quartermaster on June 29, 2011 2:13 AM
QM

My last skipper had a drill for the QM gang called "Quartermaster repel boarders". It required both of the Garands on the bridge and a bandoler of ammo. QM #1 shoots into the water then QM #2 shoots at the splash. Next clip and switch order, #2 shoots and #1 shoots the splash. The guys didn't like me to shoot first. I would move them around. They never did.

1911 qualification was to empty a magazine over the side.

USS King DLG-10 '68 to '71 out of San Diego You?