hmmmm....
Posted on 01/21/2005 2:30:28 PM PST by lowbridge
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My warship had been transformed into a floating hotel for a bunch of trifling do-gooders overnight.
As I went through the breakfast line, I overheard one of the U.N. strap-hangers, a longhaired guy with a beard, make a sarcastic comment to one of our food servers. He said something along the lines of “Nice china, really makes me feel special,” in reference to the fact that we were eating off of paper plates that day. It was all I could do to keep from jerking him off his feet and choking him, because I knew that the reason we were eating off paper plates was to save dishwashing water so that we would have more water to send ashore and save lives. That plus the fact that he had no business being there in the first place.
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As a result of having to host these people, our severely over-tasked SH-60 Seahawk helos, which were carrying tons of food and water every day to the most inaccessible places in and around Banda Aceh, are now used in great part to ferry these “relief workers” from place to place every day and bring them back to their guest bedrooms on the Lincoln at night. Despite their avowed dedication to helping the victims, these relief workers will not spend the night in-country, and have made us their guardians by default.
When our wardroom treasurer approached the leader of the relief group and asked him who was paying the mess bill for all the meals they ate, the fellow replied, “We aren’t paying, you can try to bill the U.N. if you want to.”
In addition to the relief workers, we routinely get tasked with hauling around reporters and various low-level “VIPs,” which further wastes valuable helo lift that could be used to carry supplies. We had to dedicate two helos and a C-2 cargo plane for America-hater Dan Rather and his entourage of door holders and briefcase carriers from CBS News. Another camera crew was from MTV. I doubt if we’ll get any good PR from them, since the cable channel is banned in Muslim countries. We also had to dedicate a helo and crew to fly around the vice mayor of Phoenix, Ariz., one day. Everyone wants in on the action.
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Our safety regulations state that if a pilot does not get a night carrier landing every seven days, he has to be re-qualified to land on the ship. Today we have pilots who have now been over 25 days without a trap due to being unable to use Indonesian airspace to train. Normally it is when we are at sea that our readiness is at its very peak. Thanks to the Indonesian government, we have to waive our own safety rules just to get our pilots off the deck.
In other words, the longer we stay here helping these people, the more dangerous it gets for us to operate. We have already lost one helicopter, which crashed in Banda Aceh while taking sailors ashore to unload supplies from the C-130s. There were no relief workers on that one.
http://diplomadic.blogspot.com/2005/01/on-blogging-un-and-personal.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1325291/posts
Bunch of good-for-nothing prissy prima donnas.
WHY are WE helping anti-America POS Rather do anything other than tossing his fraudulant @ss overboard?
The sooner we get rid of the stinkin' U.N. the better off we'll be.
I guess the UN was looking for kickbacks and didn't get any. Next try, extortion through lip.
Gad, I can't stand the UN. The idea that our tax dollars pay for these cretins is more than I can bear.
You'd think the guy would understand that bad mouthing the US on a carrier full of our military isn't a smart move, but I had already deduced that he wasn't the sharpest card in the deck.
This really makes me angry.
I want to send this to the CEO of my company and his jerk of an administrator. When I wrote to ask if they were doing anything for our troops since they seem to be going overboard to tell me how to donate my own money, they said "No, we are not." So, I'm choosing to tell them to "stick it" in my own little ways.
Now this just backs up how jerky the people at the UN really are. Maybe this note should be forwarded to President Bush at the Whitehouse.
Mail this to FOX. It should be a class A-1 embarrassment to the jackanape who dissed the service.
It should also be a reminder to the UN as to just who exactly is footing the bill for their mismanagement.
Someone call the Fraud Waste and Abuse hotline.
we should deduct his food and transportation costs from our "dues" we give to the "UN"
Good idea. Garnish the UN's dues.
Then you're not eating!!
My dear old mother used to say,"Give me the man who does well, but Lord please spare me the man who does good."
Arrogant presumptuous bastards! Must be "old Europeans".
At that point I would have put him and his fellow parasites on on last helicopter trip to deepest Aceh province...
yeah, maybe we all felt a little bit pissed at the cocky UN people, but we were all damn proud to be there, and to do what we were doing. this was a real guy, I should know, I helped (deleted) . hehehehe, (deleted) has it's perks!
so, yeah, he is a LT, and who else but somebody who's ego would be totally bruised by this because it made him totally worthless- none other than a stick jockey, yeah, some pilots are cool, but some of them are total fuckin tools, and this guy was one of them, yeah (deleted track him down, and he had alot to say about it, and I (deleted), but he is done now, guess what his little tantrum got him? yeah, an early trip back to Lemoore. he's been "grounded" funny huh!
So the story is true.
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