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The Official Weekend Single's Thread May 26 - 29 (Memorial Weekend)
Various | 26th May 2006 | Snugs;proud_yank

Posted on 05/26/2006 4:15:47 PM PDT by snugs

The Official Weekend Single's Thread ---May 26 -29 (Memorial Weekend US - Spring Bank Holiday Weekend UK)

Posted by Snugs;proud_yank

This weekend in America is Memorial Weekend a time when Americans honour their military dead.





TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: chat; gunsalute; hoodening; memorialweekend; morrismen; singles; springbankholiday
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To: rzeznikj at stout; ilovew

Sorry if I caused you trouble. I'll just leave this thread alone. Hang in there. ;0)


1,181 posted on 05/28/2006 9:35:30 PM PDT by cibco (www.streachfuelmileage.shorturl.com)
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To: cibco

It wasn't you, it was us. Apparently I'm not allowed to talk to Jon any more.


1,182 posted on 05/28/2006 9:37:27 PM PDT by ilovew (Jon is the sweetest and cutest guy on FR.)
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To: DollyCali; snugs
does everyone realize for Snugs/Eleanor it is now almost 3 AM & that she will hang around here & the Dose for many more hours?????

Cool! A FReeper all-nighter. 8:45 a.m. here and both of you are GREAT when it comes to support for our troops.

1,183 posted on 05/28/2006 9:44:55 PM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: Allegra

Hey there! Long time no C!


1,184 posted on 05/28/2006 9:47:04 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
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To: Allegra

Allegra!!!


1,185 posted on 05/28/2006 9:50:04 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: Allegra

Things still "quiet" there?


1,186 posted on 05/28/2006 9:50:50 PM PDT by cibco (www.streachfuelmileage.shorturl.com)
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To: ilovew

Hi ilovew.

So what did I miss?


1,187 posted on 05/28/2006 9:59:45 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness

Hmph. A lot. But I have no idea what we did wrong so the only one that can possibly explain it is the mod.


1,188 posted on 05/28/2006 10:03:43 PM PDT by ilovew (Jon is the sweetest and cutest guy on FR.)
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To: cibco
Unfortunately, no. I heard two chunky sounds that sounded like mortars just as I was going to bed last night. They probably missed their mark (they miss more often than not) because I haven't heard anything more about that.

I also heard that a bus was ambushed and bombed in Baqouba.

I'm sure this will make the MSM happy.

It sure was nice to have the radio (squawkbox) quiet for several days. It's not ramped up at this point and maybe it won't. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

1,189 posted on 05/28/2006 10:08:49 PM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: pcottraux; Maximus_Ridiculousness
Hi y'all!

Lots of people buring the midnight oil back home. You can tell it's a holiday weekend. ;-)

(Not for us...we're working. LOL)

1,190 posted on 05/28/2006 10:12:13 PM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: Allegra

Hey Allegra! Are you up near "Mortaritaville"?


1,191 posted on 05/28/2006 10:13:42 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
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To: Allegra

I burn midnight oil all the time. Sleeping is what mornings are for, LOL.


1,192 posted on 05/28/2006 10:15:32 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: Allegra

LOL! I remember one time I was back in the rear. Heard the first two rounds and got distance and movement.

While the REMF's headed to the bunkers, I just rolled over. One guy got a purple heart for stubbing his toe.

What can I say???


1,193 posted on 05/28/2006 10:17:03 PM PDT by cibco (www.streachfuelmileage.shorturl.com)
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To: cibco

LOL!! Stubbed toe!!! OMG!


1,194 posted on 05/28/2006 10:30:01 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness
Hey Allegra! Are you up near "Mortaritaville"?

LOL - that's up in Balad. About 60 miles north of here.

I'm in central "Gag-dad."

1,195 posted on 05/28/2006 10:42:28 PM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: cibco
For stubbing his toe? Dang! Cool trophy for doing that.

I wonder if I can get some kind of civilian medal for the time I scraped a knuckle while diving under a desk when a mortar came in real close in early '04? I called it my "war wound." HAHA

1,196 posted on 05/28/2006 10:44:01 PM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: pcottraux
Sleeping is what mornings are for, LOL

Around here we say "sleep is overrated."

1,197 posted on 05/28/2006 10:45:04 PM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: Allegra

Hubby was up in Balad for a while, and in and around BIAP. He also spent time in Talil.


1,198 posted on 05/28/2006 10:46:33 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
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To: Maximus_Ridiculousness
Hubby was up in Balad for a while, and in and around BIAP. He also spent time in Talil.

Is he home now? That base at Balad is HUGE. I was there briefly in the fall of '04. They had incoming every day - several times a day. We used to call it "Camp Incoming."

1,199 posted on 05/28/2006 10:50:06 PM PDT by Allegra (Thread Hijacker Extraordinaire)
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To: Allegra

Yeah...I get lots of sleep, just all at a different time than most people.


1,200 posted on 05/28/2006 10:50:21 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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