Posted on 08/03/2017 8:42:30 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Well it’s off to the Gulag for him I reckon.
Well it’s off to the Gulag for him I reckon.
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I am afraid you are right. The worst crime a citizen can commit in Russia is to “make the country look bad” by embarrassing it on the national stage. Prayers up for a man who made an innocent mistake.
Some of the comments on that tweet thread were hilarious. I had to walk out of Wendy’s because I was stifling too many chortles.
Drunk they beat Napoleon
Drunk they beat Hitler
Who, in ANY country, thinks its going to end well to put paratroopers on live TV?
As a former paratrooper myself, I never knew one who did not drink.
Hell, the Army spent weeks teaching us how to fall down, might as well learn to drink heavily too.
(And, no, of course we mostly did not jump while drunk.)
August 16th is National Airborne Day in the USA! AIRBORNE!!
Don’t forget to get drunk and/or jump something/someone.
2017 is also the 100th Anniversary of the 82d ABN DIV.
Another excuse to drink...
“August 16th is National Airborne Day...”
Thanks, I did not know that.
[ 10th SFG(Airborne), back in the Reagan days when there was still a Ft. Devens in MA - long since decommissioned ]
Drink up! Legs together and remember to roll.
I have already reused your line about the Army spending weeks to teach us how to fall down to my Airborne battle buddies.
Thanks for that.
Feet and knees together, prepared to land.
The winter beat Napoleon.
Hitler beat Hitler (along with a lot of materiele from the US and UK)
Airborne! All the way and then some!
Keep up the propaganda - if it makes you feel
good
If you know anything about Paratroopers Day in Russia they are ALL drunk.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day on steroids.
Right. Beause in the real world Napoleon enjoyed a long, warm summer, Hitler was a strategic genius and the 7,000 tanks, 11,000 aircraft and 400,000 trucks of land-lease just didn’t really matter. How’s the beach on fantasy island?
I couldn’t imagine jumping out of a perfectly good plane sober.
“Airborne!”
One of my favorite parts was how, at six minutes away from the drop zone, they made us all chant “six minutes, six minutes, six minutes...” while rocking back and forth and stomping our feet.
To make sure everybody is awake for go time.
Then as you move into position the jump master says:
“Stand, in the door.... jump!”
“...jumping out of a perfectly good plane sober”
We were on a static chute line with a bunch of guys lined up behind you. So if you did not jump immediately when it’s your turn, then you got pushed out.
And our orders during our first jump were to trash talk the first “leg” (non-airborne Army guys) you see after landing.
All in good fun of course.
Ahh... good times, good times!
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