Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted September 15, 2024 Posted September 15, 2024 Just an acknowledgement of two things: 1) This is the 100th anniversary year of the Royal Canadian Air Force 2) Today is Battle of Britain Sunday   4 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 22, 2024 Posted September 22, 2024 On 9/5/2024 at 7:26 PM, Sedalia Dave said: Parade dress?  Semper fi, my brothers. 2 2 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 22, 2024 Posted September 22, 2024 On 9/8/2024 at 7:51 PM, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: Typhoon condition 5: Surf's up! 4 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 22, 2024 Posted September 22, 2024 Long ago I'd take my staff for a meeting in a different coffee shop every Friday morning. Â I'd always get there early and let the place know that there would be about 20 of us'. Once I got to the S---ucks, I Â told the snot nosed teenager what we expected and ordered a cup of coffee. Â I got pretty much the same thing this Marine got. Â Finally I asked the puke if they served real coffee and he started in, acting like I was retarded. Â About a minute later I told him that wasn't a teenie bopper or yuppie and didn't appreciate being talked down to and ridiculed and to forget everything else. Â I said I was going across the street to a family cafe and that I would post one of my people on the sidewalk in front of his place to tell the rest where we were...and walked out. Â The a--hole called the police who asked my man on the sidewalk what he was doing there. Â He was told. Â The cop stood back and said "don't set foot on the parking lot" and drove away. Â A half hour later a man walked in and was directed to me. Â He introduced himself as a district manager of the company across the street. We went outside and he began to apologize. I cut him off and told him what I thought of his staff and operation, that his apology was too kittle and way too late and that was going to post this incident in our next corporate news letter( we were part of the largest financial company in the county and just recently had bought the company with the red umbrella logo) Â I went back inside and forgot about it. Â Not long afterward I got a letter from the other dude. Â I wrote REJECTED on it and sent it back. Â End of story. Â Haven't set foot in a St--bu--s since. Â Won't ever again 3 1 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted October 3, 2024 Posted October 3, 2024 Get his biography as well - can't recall the title but have it / read it. 2 1 Quote
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted October 6, 2024 Posted October 6, 2024 With the last Canadian tank now U/S the Royal Canadian Regiment and Lord Strathcona's Horse have become creative in an attempt to maintain their NATO promises and commitments. 2 2 Quote
The Blarney Kid Posted October 9, 2024 Posted October 9, 2024 On 8/14/2024 at 6:58 PM, Barry Sloe said: The ship appears to be a Spruance class destroyer. These ships had sea water compensated fuel storage tanks. Basically, as you used fuel from the storage tank, that fuel was replaced with sea water. Sea water is heavier than fuel so the ship sat LOWER in the water as you used up fuel. And they were very smooth. 20 foot seas were nothing. Fond memories.  BS Not a Spruance, probably an Arleigh Burke destroyer or a Ticonderoga class cruiser. It has the Aegis radar system. 1 1 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 13, 2024 Posted October 13, 2024 On 10/3/2024 at 11:53 AM, Sedalia Dave said: Semper fi Docs, and all you other corpsmen and women, medics, field doctors and nurses, and any others who have been there to chase that evil spook out of the place. Â Even those who took the risk of getting us out of the field of fire when they went above and beyond. Â A lot a readers here have had your help in some really bad places and at unbelievable times. Â What we owe you can never be sufficiently repaid. 3 5 Quote
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