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D'OH none of the brothers are going to be there? what a waste, all that wonderful liquor and no cause. well, no cause other than the usual [reasons need not apply]. witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

n2skydvn you replied to me, that mean you'll be there? witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

ahhhhhhhh, tostado nachos......... ummm, does Texas count? witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

Skydive DelMarVa in Laurel, DE Otter [someday super?] King Air, though not sure for how much longer witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

Any Rodriguez Brothers going to be at the CASA boogie [it really has some other name] at DelMarVa in two plus weeks? Got a fresh one here [read: me], with plural bottles of 1800. score!

HOO RAY for kingbunky! No, HOO RAY for Boobies! Thanks to kingbunky! witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

I heard that song, followed by Lee Greenwood's 'God Bless the USA' on the local c/w station here in DC. I saw people pulled over singing and crying and everything else. I must say, I was damned proud to be singing along too! Kennedy witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

damnit, Sprite isn't any better, but my shift is over, so you all have fun. I'm off to Dollar Bud Night. God, I love college bars. Peace Kennedy witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

sorry, that should have hit when it still applied... and I happen to be 21

care to prove it, tadbad? witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

To continue the coffee thread about 14 hours later, I am drinking SOC blend. It is strong, poisonous, smelling faintly like a packing room floor, looking like spilt engine lube. [SOC is where I work, Security Operations Center] On a good note, it IS Dollar Bud night at a local bar here at UMD!!

Being still of the new guy quality [or so they still tell me] I can say buying beer in itself is good. Buying enough beer is better. Buying enough good beer is truly special. This will take a while, if you've just hit double digits, but it will be worth it. Remember, you will drink more than you will pay for. Now just hope that you will live more than you die. witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

That was great, though it didn't help the cause in trying to get the GERMAN girlfriend to the DZ. anymore bright ideas? [I hope.... ] Kennedy

right, left that one out, but that's because before my mentor/coach/jump buddy would accept that I'd not be totally insane to try headdown, he 'made' me do at least a dozen tracking jumps with him. 90* is kinda second nature. witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

I bet an enterprising soul could teach her to psycho pack using her legs/butt/stomach. That way, you would even still ahve access to the beer while she packs. Now THAT'S a woman. Yeah. 8^) witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

The command form of a verb is an the imperative. Go is, in fact, a complete sentence. Though I am in college, and I don't know shit, and freely acknowledge this fact, my significant other [who I am now in the process of turning into a jumper!] was an English major and has consulted whatever it is English majors cunsult. Goin the imperative, is both verb and the subject, and the understood direct object is the listener. witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

quick question aside, when do I get to not be a newbie anymore? witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

OK. Not to start a debate on police, but I'm going to use them as an analogy. How are police taught to fire their weapons? To disarm? To wound? No. But they are not taught to "shoot to kill" either. They are taught to shoot to neutralize the threat. The best way to do this is shots to center mass. So while their aim does tend to end up with the other guy dead, that's just the byproduct. Same idea here. The idea is to convince someone else to see your point of view. In order to convince the other guy [bin Laden, Hitler, et alia] you have to use ample force. We dont want to kill them, we want to convince them not to be a threat. Now, somebody above my paygrade determines the best way to "convince" them is to remove from them all freedom to act. The best way to do THAT, happen to be to remove them from this plane of existance. OK. So be it. Again, the other guy [we call him the bad guy] ends up dead, but not because wewant to go out and kill him. witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

and what, now we take the word of the government as right? witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

beginner to beginner, it would seem that if you arched too much in head down, you'd end up on your belly, not your back, no? maybe try arching a little more when you get on your back? witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

Ok, I rephrase, to put a soldier [airman, marine, seaman] INTO ACTION to kill as many of the enemy as necessary until the other guy calls it quits. Actually, I just realized, we are all a little off on this. Freeflir29 may be closest, I think. War is used to convince someone to do something they don't want to do. Same as politics on a different level. Period, end of story. Killing them or their side is simply means to an end, that end being convincing them to do what they don't want to. This begs the question, what if the other side doesn't share our view of death. f they think dying for a cause is a goal [other than helping them with the dying part] maybe our strategies needs adjustments, no? witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

The aim politics is basically to get someone who disagrees with you to capitulate to your will, no? The difference is a question of magnitude. Politicians do some pretty despicable things to see their agenda done. It's a matter of how important things are to any given individual. I was just defining things as they apply to scenarios in which we have chosen a goal to be more important than someone's life. witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

> Don't let revisionist history fool you - we did our > level best to kill as many people in Japan as > possible. There were no surgical strikes to take >out just weapons production plants while leaving > civilians uninjured. Killing is what war is all about. > Firebombing and nuclear weapons were very > effective in that regard. Pardon me, new voice from a newbie, but isn't that the point of war. Put a soldier on the ground to kill as many of the enemy as necessary and occupy the field until the other guy calls it quits. Hold no delusions about this. We were at war with JAPAN, not the Japanese military. Getting them to quit while keeping our guys alive. Works for me. Even seems the current brass and above could learn some lessons here. Kennedy witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1*

So they take your money, THEN they tax you for it? God bless the bureaucracy....and heaven help us all. like some guy wrote, ain't that a hole in a boat like some guy said, ain't that a kick in the head

Jim, you know I hail from the state where George Washington is no longer a historical figure [according to the state BOE/DOE anyway]. Poor me. Pour me. Pour me another shot of whiskey. Kennedy