Posted on 08/15/2004 11:35:16 PM PDT by SAMWolf
Howdy ma'am
I received an e-mail from Lt Paul this morning. Seems he's doing more actual engineering for the Army than he did for TXDot.
Marhaba(howdy ya'll),
"YOU GUYS ROCK" is one of the best things I have read in a while.
We stay busy here with design work and construction contracting. The money for the fiscal year running out will cause us to miss some deadlines. The US Army is probably the biggest employer here. Most construction and renovation on the old Republican Guard base I am at is done by Iraqi contractors. I do more design work here than my civilian job. I have ended up doing generator sizes, electrical layouts, and structural stuff. I actually wish I had brought some of my old textbooks here. There is one Iraqi engineer that has helped me out on some stuff. He is a member of the Armenian Orthodox church here. He did not get hit in the the recent church attacks. ;
I saw some posters of that punk Sadr on the way down to Camp Victory on a convoy today. We printed some maps for some soldiers going to deal with him this past week. I have been told by an Iraqi that Sadr was a partying womanizer before we got here. Remember that Saddam had Sadr's father killed.
The time here goes quick. We might get home early which would be next spring. I am sure that Bryan's quest to escape from Ablilene and stories of financial woe will will be the same upon my return
Masalama,
Paul
Wow. Thanks for the sulpher lesson. Our city water back in Ohio always smelled of sulphur, it was drawn from a well before they ran it through the city system. They'd add bleach and then it would just smell like bleach. It was always awful.
Good afternoon ct.
ROFL. I almost posted that one, but it doesn't show the majestic view.
Thanks PE for the news from Lt. Paul.
LOL. I was about to mention how dry it looked and then saw this pic of the snow and had to post it. Yikes.
I'd forgotten about that. These idiots have heard of 50, 100 and 500 year cycles either. Our official temp is taken at the AIRPORT, a known heat engine.........he, he.
I am here.
Well, over here now.
I guess it's time for me to tell my story, in light of recent events.
After John Fraud Kerry returned to the states and told Congress we were all war criminals, the CIA decided it could no longer rely on the Navy for black ops.
So, they turned to the Armor corps. You know the reputation of tankers, that we're dumb but reliable.
So, we strapped amphibious kits on our Sheridans and began river duty.
We called ourselves the Slothboats. We Slothies were a tight knit band of brothers. We knew what we were doing violated the Geneva Convention Against The Use Of Tanks As Warships, but we followed our orders.
I'll never forget Christmas Eve 1970 when I was five miles inside Cambodia although President Ford denied there were any Slothboats in Cambodia. We were being shot at by everyone, even South Vietnamese celebrating Christmas. Well, on Christmas Day I dropped off undercover agent Valerie Plame, deep in Cambodia. She handed me her briefcase and said, "Take this, I won't be needing it where I'm going. There's a happy hat in the secret compartment." And then she disappeared into the jungle.
A Viet Cong fired an RPG at us. My gunner got him with the main gun, blowing his legs off. He kept crawling back behind a hootch with his launcher. So, I leaped off the boat and got 'im in the back. We ran miles of fire from the shore, but finally got back to base.
I put in for a Congressional Medal of Honor for that mission, but only got a Silver Star out of it.
Finally, the story can be told.
Today's classic warship, USS Hector (AC-7)
Displacement 11,230
Length 403'
Beam 53'
Draw 24'8"
Speed 12 k
Complement 82
USS Hector, a 11,230-ton collier, was built at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Commissioned in October 1909, she was primarily employed in transporting coal for the Atlantic Fleet throughout her brief career. In addition, during early 1915 she carried the small submarines A-3, A-5 and B-1 from the United States to the Philippines. USS Hector was wrecked off the U.S. Atlantic Coast on 14 July 1916.
ROTFLOL. You're my HERO!!!!
In my extensive thread "Naming Navy Ships" I don't remember seeing ships named after mythical characters. I had to go to the USS Hector website to see why it was named such. Interesting.
Cool.
I'm getting ready to use that gasoline and match on my PC. I warned Hubby that we might be running to Best Buy tonight.
Hubby was not amused.
Doing fine, just wish the temps would stay in the 70's like they are in the mornings.
Learned something new today then. :-) I just remember some of the farms we stayed at on vacations when I was a kid had that nasty tasting water.
Morning CT.
I wonder how far back the old saying "He's the salt of the earth" goes.
Looks like some rugged country.
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