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Australia navy in breast op row
BBC ^ | Sunday, 16 September 2007, | n/a

Posted on 09/16/2007 6:37:18 PM PDT by fishhound

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Morale Boost.
1 posted on 09/16/2007 6:37:20 PM PDT by fishhound
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To: fishhound

Okay, I just assumed it was to make them more buoyant.


2 posted on 09/16/2007 6:38:55 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich!)
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To: fishhound

They are Integrated Personal Flotation Systems.


3 posted on 09/16/2007 6:39:32 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: aculeus; Billthedrill; martin_fierro; Larry Lucido
Broader needs alert.
4 posted on 09/16/2007 6:40:23 PM PDT by dighton
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To: fishhound

they were carried out for psychological reasons, not to make sailors “look sexy”.

What’s the distinction?


5 posted on 09/16/2007 6:40:39 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: fishhound

3 posts in, and already this thread is a riot.


6 posted on 09/16/2007 6:40:48 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: fishhound

This thread is useless without pics!


7 posted on 09/16/2007 6:41:18 PM PDT by Loyalist (Social justice isn't; social studies aren't; social work doesn't.)
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To: Army Air Corps

There ya go. Water wing implants


8 posted on 09/16/2007 6:41:53 PM PDT by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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To: fishhound

It’s this a little over the top?


9 posted on 09/16/2007 6:43:21 PM PDT by Wheee The People (Go FRed)
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To: fishhound

This is the first really new idea to come along regarding parade dress in the last 10, maybe 15 or 20 centuries.


10 posted on 09/16/2007 6:43:22 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Old Seadog

Also good for protection against thoracic trauma from blunt impact forces.....


11 posted on 09/16/2007 6:44:03 PM PDT by Kozak
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To: fishhound
"I have to say [it] smacks of a government out of touch."

hmm...dunno about that.
I'd have to touch them to make that assessment.

12 posted on 09/16/2007 6:44:29 PM PDT by evad
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To: fishhound
But the opposition Labor Party said it wanted details on the cases.

Like what? Pictures?

A government "out of touch"? Oh, I think they very much want to be in touch.

13 posted on 09/16/2007 6:44:58 PM PDT by JoanVarga
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To: magslinger

Ping!


14 posted on 09/16/2007 6:45:11 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: fishhound
Morale Boost.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Recruiting numbers for the Australian Navy are SURGING.

15 posted on 09/16/2007 6:45:40 PM PDT by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: fishhound

They serve beer on their ships too!


16 posted on 09/16/2007 6:45:46 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: Loyalist
This thread is useless without pics!


Hey big boy!

17 posted on 09/16/2007 6:46:00 PM PDT by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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"I have to say [it] smacks of a government out of touch."

They could have said that a different way, but noooooo..

18 posted on 09/16/2007 6:46:06 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: fishhound

This could be a ballooning problem.


19 posted on 09/16/2007 6:46:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.com)
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they serve beer...

add wings and burgers and you got .....Hooters.

They will have to make more ships.


20 posted on 09/16/2007 6:48:35 PM PDT by fishhound
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