Any idea of the maker of this?

Who would want to lead/supervise a bunch of dick heads forced into service?  They would have to allow physical punishment, and the military jails would be overrun with malingering bastards a well.

Which village is she from?  I was stationed there for a couple years a decade ago, and loved the island, people, weather, and food!  Still never got a good recipe for finadine, and miss Tuan's restaurant big time.

Did he take a bite of the chalk before the third attempt?

Guinness or Sam Adams for beer nights, Woodford Reserve for whiskey.

Happy birthday Marines.  Btw, can't believe Smedley D. Butler wasn't mentioned...HE was a bad ass!

Would hit

Kigtropin...100% H2O

This

Yep, exactly right!

Solid hamstring/calf workout?

Yep "not optimal"! 

Sybian!

Something like that.  Prefer the anonymity of the net...but yes I'm in the medical field in the military in Japan.

Most in Japan is"like" Kobe as well too.  They cannot raise enough cattle there to satisfy the demand even here.
As for breakfast, small bowl of oatmeal, one cup of egg beaters, and a strong chip of coffee.

Being out for six months is a HUGE deal with the current time in my career.  They have done some iontophoresis treatments with little effect, but say that these may also help?  I really want to avoid being "out of action" for that long if anything else will help.

After an MRI recently, I have been offered surgery to repair two tendon tears...a mild Subscapularis tendon tear and a moderate Supraspinatus muscle and tendon tear, both from an acute injury.  While the doc tells me that they will not heal on their own, I can continue to go to PT and get more occassional injections of cortisone and lidocane.  I could also receive surgical repair, which they tell me will take me out of any physical activity for six months or more, and I still may not completely regain overhead lifting strength/loss of pain.  Anyone with experience with these injuries?  What did you do, and how did post surgical recovery/use turn out?

What amazed me the most is that this is from a columnist who works for the Washington Post!

November rain

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE</a>

>> I too have become disillusioned.
>>
>> By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San
>> Francisco Examiner)
>>
>> Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama
>> as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling
>> breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle
>> Ages.
>>
>> How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional
>> accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the
>> world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military,
>> execute the world's most consequential job?
>>
>> Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life:
>> ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and
>> test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer";
>> a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement
>> (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote
>> "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United
>> States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential
>> ambitions.
>>
>> He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature
>> legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his
>> troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who
>> for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual
>> terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is
>> easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on
>> Earth was such a man elected president?
>>
>> Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
>> addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure,
>> no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater
>> of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill
>> Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black,
>> and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with
>> protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit
>> extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass
>> - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.
>>
>> Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history
>> matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself
>> had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to
>> become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism
>> to rest?
>>
>> Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama
>> phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But
>> certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action
>> laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white
>> people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
>>
>> Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat
>> themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools
>> for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the
>> inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow.
>> Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't
>> around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem
>> resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes,
>> racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the
>> color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if
>> that isn't racism, then nothing is.
>>
>> And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never
>> troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have
>> noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite
>> undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough
>> for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he
>> was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate.
>> All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough
>> for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
>>
>> What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display
>> every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked
>> executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory
>> skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives
>> included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
>>
>> The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when
>> he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent
>> he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever
>> issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that
>> has failed over and over again for 100 years.
>>
>> And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and
>> everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I
>> inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing
>> to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own
>> incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never
>> been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act
>> responsibly?
>>
>> In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither
>> the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you
>> understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current
>> erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone
>> otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office

Alright all, active duty SNCO here.  Much of the info here has been close to accurate, however some had changed in the past few years.  Thirty days leave per year plus holidays if you don't work in a job that requires duty regardless of the date (i.e. Police, medical, flight line, etc).  Chow halls (DFAC) allows three meals per day with one meat item per meal...on a meal card, in which case they do not get a food allowance.  If you're paying cash, you can eat all you would like, but you pay cash based on each item.  Cheaper than off base, but not free.

Routine urine tests do not screen for steroids.  A unit commander can order a blood test for steroids, but a command ordered test cannot be used to prosecute.  It can be grounds to begin an investigation however.

Btw, many MSgts have some sort of office, but they are subject to random testing as well as all officers!

Does that yellow thing restrict breathing?  If not, without the filter there isn't much restriction to airflow at all. 

Epic fail using a former president who was impeached!  Somebody get me a cigar...

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