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US troops drink capital city’s entire beer supply in one weekend
Fox News via NY Post ^ | 10/31/2018 | Fox News

Posted on 10/31/2018 6:36:09 AM PDT by DFG

Thousands of US soldiers depleted all of the beer in Iceland’s capital over the weekend.

More than 6,000 soldiers were in Reykjavik for four days participating in the Trident Juncture 18 — a NATO-led military exercise. After their drills, the troops reportedly visited the city’s downtown bars, where they finished off the entire beer supply.

According to Icelandic magazine Visir, the brewery Ölgerð Egils Skallagrímssonar had to send emergency cases of beer to the bars.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alcohol; beer; iceland; nato; reykjavik; skallagrmssonar; usmilitary
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To: DFG

To paraphrase HOmer Simpson, “ where’s the emergency beer?”

( there was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer asks Marge, where is the emergency ham?)


21 posted on 10/31/2018 6:48:04 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: V_TWIN
emergency-drinking-beer
22 posted on 10/31/2018 6:51:21 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: proud American in Canada

Post #22.


23 posted on 10/31/2018 6:52:04 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: DFG

if the end result was fewer drunk Keflavickians using the flightline as a drag strip, then it’s a good thing


24 posted on 10/31/2018 6:52:27 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: DFG

Reading the headline, I thought this might be about the troops being deployed to the southern border.


25 posted on 10/31/2018 6:54:45 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: DFG
Great job!

During my first year in Germany (1977), my platoon sergeant and his wife arranged a tour of the Konigsbacher Brewery for my platoon.

The tour began at 1 PM, lasting nearly two hours...very thorough and informative. We were then taken down to one of their tasting rooms. They served us a full meal of ham, potato salad and brotchen, telling us we could stay until they closed at 6 PM.

We had to leave at 5:30, as we polished off the keg in the tasting room.

I found out they had a great restaurant on the premises, which served bock beer year round. I think I drove up to Koblenz one Sunday a month to eat and drink there. It had a great view of the Rhine River, too.

26 posted on 10/31/2018 6:56:06 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: DFG

Back in the early Sixties, with the Berlin Crisis, my late Dad and two Uncles were in the 32nd Infantry Division (Red Arrow), activated and sent to Ft. Lewis, WA. Olympic Beer was on its last legs when that happened. A couple of weeks after the the 32d arrived at Ft. Lewis, Oly had to put on a third shift!


27 posted on 10/31/2018 6:57:18 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Disarming Liberals...Real Common Sense Gun Control!)
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To: BlueLancer

But if you seen what Icelandic women look like, you understand why they are especially enjoying the Oversexed part in Iceland


28 posted on 10/31/2018 6:59:17 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Redleg Duke

That was “Olympia Beer”, not “Olympic Beer”. My bad. I need to be banned from FR for eternity for that mistake. Let the FR Police know about this severe transgression.


29 posted on 10/31/2018 6:59:38 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Disarming Liberals...Real Common Sense Gun Control!)
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To: DFG

Although news media frequently refer to any U.S. troops as “soldiers”, the bulk of the U.S. troops in the Icelandic exercise are Marines and sailors.

No surprise that this grouping would pretty quickly suck up the beer supply. There is a reputation to uphold; fight hard, party hard. Semper Fi.

Here is the article: https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2018/10/27/icelands-bars-ran-out-of-beer-trying-to-serve-drunk-us-sailors-and-marines/


30 posted on 10/31/2018 7:02:57 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: DFG

“Trident Juncture 18 — a NATO-led military exercise”

Also known as the “Future Supreme Court Nominee Convention”. Many were overheard saying “I like beer.’ Democrats horrified at hate-beer speech.


31 posted on 10/31/2018 7:07:49 AM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: DFG

HOO-AH!


32 posted on 10/31/2018 7:08:53 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: DFG

PPPPPP.

Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. The beer suppliers should have planned better. 6K troops coming, and no increase of beer supply? MADNESS, I say!


33 posted on 10/31/2018 7:09:55 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: DFG
Too bad they helped out the Iceland economy. I hate to say it, but I'll never, ever go to Iceland. They are the ones who are proud that they've eliminated Downs Syndrome from their country.

They've proudly done so by aborting any baby who has it......Screw Iceland!

35 posted on 10/31/2018 7:14:17 AM PDT by irish guard
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To: DFG

Someone up there does not understand supply chain concepts very well.


36 posted on 10/31/2018 7:18:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: roho

“...to do what a company of Marines could have accomplished.”

Or a squad of Army Combat/Combat Heavy Engineers. ;)


37 posted on 10/31/2018 7:19:08 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: MNJohnnie
But if you seen what Icelandic women look like, you understand why they are especially enjoying the Oversexed part in Iceland

Guys I've known who were stationed there describe "beautiful, blonde shapely....and missing most of the teeth in their head".

Perhaps like the Brits their dentistry has improved in recent years.


38 posted on 10/31/2018 7:20:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Moonman62

LOL! I sense an emergency coming on after work. ;)

Have a great day! Julie. :)


39 posted on 10/31/2018 7:26:02 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: DFG

Nice to have a “ good news story”

Those sons of Ragnar must not be prepared!


40 posted on 10/31/2018 7:31:16 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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