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  1. 1.

    raven

    I’m glad I DVR’d it so I could FF through asshole. I hope they keep him out of the booth but I doubt it.

  3. 3.

    J R in WV

    GO NAVY — beat Army.

    I can’t get CBS broadcast any more, either trees grown up or issues with their transmitter they’re too cheap to fix; so I can’t watch this game. Sad!!

    Unless streaming might work!??

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    I’ve lost track. Is the Navy streak still going? I was acquaintances with the old Army Coach (Ellerson; a first class Dude), but lost track after Coach went the way of Coaches that don’t beat their rival.

    Sorry to see asshole showed. Can we load him in a cannon?

  5. 5.

    raven

    @J R in WV: You can sign up for CBS All Access or Youtube tv for a free trial and stream it. I did it last week as a hedge for the GA-Bama game.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    Will the marching bands form a giant turd, with an arrow pointing to where you know who is seated, during halftime?

  10. 10.

    A Ghost To Most

    As prior USAF, I usually root for the underdog.

    Go Navy, get a first down!

    And Fuck the fucking xian fascist USAF Academy.

  12. 12.

    raven

    My old man was a Navy Mustang. WW2 Destroyer sailor and commissioned after college. He fucking HATED Regular Navy pukes.

  14. 14.

    A Ghost To Most

    @The Dangerman:

    Sorry to see asshole showed. Can we load him in a cannon?

    Only after he’s been reduced to ashes. Just to be sure. It worked for my father; he never came back.

  17. 17.

    A Ghost To Most

    @retiredeng: My uncle was a power lineman for the USAF in Vietnam. He told me stories about being way up on a pole or tower, fixing something, and some asshole would appear and start shooting at him.

  18. 18.

    Duane

    The worst college game this year was the PAC-12 championship between Utah and Washington. Until now.

  22. 22.

    piratedan

    its becoming more and more apparent that each day with all of this WINNING, that Trump is wearing out his staff in that they are all suffering from success overload and feel the need to return to the people to share it more effectively….. There must be an actual limit to being too effective and this administration continues to push the envelope in bringing success to the American people……

    <—— Faux News audition tweet…..

  23. 23.

    Duane

    @raven: Washington at #9 is way overated. There’s a dozen teams that are better. Nothing personal, but they aren’t that good.

  27. 27.

    The Dangerman

    @Duane:

    The worst college game this year was the PAC-12 championship between Utah and Washington.

    I’ve seen more people at a busy In-And-Out then went to that game in person. Other than TV evidence, it would have been a well kept secret.

  31. 31.

    retiredeng

    @A Ghost To Most: I had a “relatively cushy job” on the flag ship. Admiral’s detachment but enlisted so crappy quarters. But the guys on shore getting shot at and killed were in tough shape. I’m a Vietnam veteran but not like the real ones.

  32. 32.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @raven: My grandfather was a mustang. Lied about his age to join in the early 20s, age roughly 15. Served on a gunboat in the Yangtze River in China. Naval air in the Pacific before and during WWII – flew on the first regular US Mail flight to Guam, was present (luckily onshore) at Pearl Harbor. Retired in the late 50s and went on to a second career working on guided missiles at Raytheon, as a completely self-taught engineer. A bad-tempered, foul-mouthed, incredibly clever old bastard who hardly ever had a kind word to say but often did kind things. He was enormously proud of his son (my dad), a career Navy officer, and would have loved that my brother went on to serve in the Navy and that that brother’s daughter is now at the Naval Academy.

    GO NAVY!

  34. 34.

    raven

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Cool, I don’t have a dog in the fight since I was Army but I just know the stories he told me about how incompetent Regular Navy officers were then. You seen “The Sand Pebbles”? Those China Sailors must have been something.

  36. 36.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @The Dangerman:
    I loved In-And-Out Burger when I was in California 2 years ago. In Ohio, you got two choices: Wendy’s and McDonald’s, with the occasional Five Guys.

    Of those, I would rank as best:

    1. Five Guys
    2. Wendy’s
    3. McDonald’s

    The quality at McDonald’s is too iffy most of the time.

  38. 38.

    A Ghost To Most

    @retiredeng: I went in in 1974, so I am considered Vietnam War era vet. My one duty station was SAC HQ IN Omaha. At least you were in the neighborhood.

  39. 39.

    raven

    @retiredeng: I was flying back from the 10th Anniversary of the Wall and I was next to this really young looking Navy Officer wearing the Vietnam Service Medal. We had a nice talk and I felt comfortable asking. He said he was in his freshman year at the Academy and they were on a summer float in 75 and crossed into Dixie Station (I think) and he said the pretty much made him wear it.

  42. 42.

    A Ghost To Most

    @RSA:
    I did that from 2004-2009. Set up and ran the Joint Medical Asset Repository at Ft. Detrick in MD.

  43. 43.

    retiredeng

    @raven: I remember the heat and humidity. We had no A/C in our quarters so we slept on deck at night. Even slept through the 16″ guns firing onshore. But that was the extent of the hardship for us.

  44. 44.

    RSA

    @A Ghost To Most: Cool. I’m at the Army Research Laboratory, on Aberdeen Proving Ground.

    I’ve been temporarily detailed to Pittsburgh until April, though. It was awkward visiting a bar on a recent Sunday, watching the Steelers and the Ravens. :-)

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    I thought it was Space Force versus Peace Corps. This is what I get for only paying for the basic cable package…

  47. 47.

    jl

    Trump screwed up again and has the army fighting the navy now? Oh shit. How many dead? I’ll go check the news.

    Edit: Silverman promised us that Mattis had this kind of crap on lockdown.

  48. 48.

    JMG

    @jl: Don’t laugh. After the first Army-Navy game in 1890, the series was suspended for several years because generals and admirals were challenging each other to duels.

  50. 50.

    tobie

    @RSA: let us know when you’re back in Harford County! khead and I are the two Ceciltucky residents on this blog, and a Meetup for folks from Bel Air to Wilmington might just be do-able.

  51. 51.

    raven

    @retiredeng: Dad was on the USS Crosby, DD-164-APD 17. It was a WW1 four piper converted to a High Speed Transport well suited for landings. He was a signalman and rode in one of the gun buckets on the LCPR. He talked about sleeping on the deck a great deal during those years.

  52. 52.

    RSA

    @tobie: Hey, that sounds good!

    Ceciltucky, LOL. My parents live on the west side of Baltimore County, close the border of Carroll County, and they have similar comments.

  53. 53.

    tobie

    @RSA: When I despair about political in Cecil, I always remind myself I could be living in Garrett County. Your folks should do the same.

  56. 56.

    p.a.

    Tidbit I found out in spring re:lacrosse, but may be more widely aapplicable. Army & Navy are self-funded/endowed, AF is not. If there’s a gvt shutdown AF lax shuts down, Army & Navy don’t.

  57. 57.

    jl

    @JMG: OK. Stupid football game again.
    Isn’t there a Coast Guard – Marine croquet game coming up?

    Edit: and how come the IRS-BLM beer pong tournament never gets any coverage?

  59. 59.

    A Ghost To Most

    @RSA:
    Nice. The Steelers-Ravens rivalry has become intense. Like the Penguins-Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals.

  61. 61.

    PaulWartenberg

    GO NAVY.

    <—Dad was a Navy pilot during the 60s and 70s, Older brother graduated from Annapolis (his freshman year he was in the same company as David Robinson!) My twin's oldest son just got a thumbs up from his congresswoman to get in to Annapolis himself. And I have a great-uncle who died at Coral Sea in 1942, got a ship named after him.

  62. 62.

    Bill Arnold

    A few odd tweets this afternoon pre-Army-Navy game. Who is writing these? (“Lucid Trump”? Perhaps the DJT that doesn’t know how to close an umbrella but isn’t so afraid of downslopes. :-) The style of the second/third (the Blumenthal thread) has been appearing occasionally since at least summer 2018 and perhaps earlier. Sorry, just playing. The DJT is so weird sometimes. :-)

    Very sad day & night in Paris. Maybe it’s time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes? The U.S. was way ahead of the curve on that and the only major country where emissions went down last year!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2018

    Watched Da Nang Dick Blumenthal on television spewing facts almost as accurate as his bravery in Vietnam (which he never saw). As the bullets whizzed by Da Nang Dicks head, as he was saving soldiers….— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2018

    ….left and right, he then woke up from his dream screaming that HE LIED. Next time I go to Vietnam I will ask “the Dick” to travel with me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2018

  68. 68.

    The Dangerman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    ….the dusk shots are always the best.

    I saw one 2 or 3 years ago from San Bernardino area at dusk; it was excellent. Perspective from that distance was really whacked; if I hadn’t have known what it was, I wouldn’t have known what it was (hmmm, Department of Redundancy Department there).

  70. 70.

    tobie

    @Bill Arnold: sorry, I almost spit out my drink when I read “Da Nang Dick.” What it’s this man’s problem??? Second-graders are more mature. Really he is everything that is vile in the human species. I need brain bleach now.

  72. 72.

    Mike J

    @jl:

    Isn’t there a Coast Guard – Marine croquet game coming up?

    Back in October there was an international sniper competition. USMC sniper school instructors came in 10th, right behind the Coasties. 75th Rangers form the US Army were first.

  73. 73.

    RSA

    @A Ghost To Most:

    The Steelers-Ravens rivalry has become intense.

    Yes! I was away from Baltimore when the Ravens arrived, and so my memories of football rivalries are ancient history (Colts vs. Patriots, in the ’70s and ’80s). Nowadays, though, the Baltimore friends I’ve reconnected with from high school tell me that if I come back with black and gold gear they’ll disown me. :-)

  74. 74.

    J R in WV

    @ Goku :

    Of those, I would rank as best:

    1. Five Guys
    2. Wendy’s
    3. McDonald’s

    Shouldn’t that be:
    1. Five Guys
    3. Wendy’s
    1,257. McDonald’s

    FTFY.

  76. 76.

    J R in WV

    @Mike J:

    Back in October there was an international sniper competition. USMC sniper school instructors came in 10th, right behind the Coasties. 75th Rangers form the US Army were first.

    I wonder how the NCAA champion rifle team from WVU would do in that. They have more championships than any service academy. I flew into CRW last year with some team members wearing their new champion jackets, and watched their joy fade as their rafle cases didn’t come out of the luggage chute! Expensive rifles!!

    A whole different kind of marksmanship than sniping.

  78. 78.

    J R in WV

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I will confess that I have eaten a big special burger at McDs at 3 or 4 am across the street from the hospital, back when wife was in MICU with septic shock. It was good, fully acceptable!

    She’s all well and good now, though, in spite of the odds with that stuff, I held her foot, since her hands were all plumbed up, and talked to her straight through the 23 odd days she was on the vent. Maybe it helped, anyways, the nurses, all from trauma duty in the ‘stans pulled her through.

  81. 81.

    rekoob

    @jl: Perhaps, but every April, the US Naval Academy and St. John’s College meet for an epic croquet match in Annapolis.

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