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AFN is off the air until after the Shut Down. Certainly not a huge issue--especially for those out on missions. But if you are between missions, it certainly cuts down on the boredom.
1 posted on 01/20/2018 8:40:32 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

But they haven’t shut off the cell phone access yet? That’s good. Useless dementocrat compromise in daca-——Either our way or we vote no. Now that’s compromise for ya. Bet chucky will still be getting his pay check.


2 posted on 01/20/2018 8:46:21 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Vermont Lt

all for the sake of the”rights” of ILLEGAL Immigrants


3 posted on 01/20/2018 8:46:57 AM PST by RaginRak
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To: Vermont Lt

Television, on deployments?

I don’t think the actual problem is being identified here.


4 posted on 01/20/2018 8:49:08 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Vermont Lt

It is out here in Afghanistan. The message they re running on the screen says “Due to the government shutdown, AFN services are not available”.


5 posted on 01/20/2018 8:49:37 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Vermont Lt

There are a lot of unhappy campers here because it looks like the troops will not be able to see the NFL Conference championships tomorrow.


6 posted on 01/20/2018 8:51:06 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Vermont Lt

If you’re on Twitter, have you tweeted this to Trump?


7 posted on 01/20/2018 8:51:37 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Vermont Lt

That is one of many consequences of our government trying to give America to the Third World.

There will be many more consequences, and they will be worse.


8 posted on 01/20/2018 8:52:41 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Vermont Lt
When I was in the Navy and deployed in Japan, we had televisions in the berthing spaces but no current programming. We watched a lot of movies on VHS.

Don't worry about your SIL -- two things American servicemen know how to do: 1. embrace the suck and make the worst out of bad situations, and 2. make their own entertainment.

12 posted on 01/20/2018 8:57:04 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Vermont Lt

I ran a big intel computer network hub at the Pentagon in the early 1980s.

I typed in a lot of play-by-play to the remote corners of the world every Sunday and especially during the bowls and playoffs.

When I was in Australia even earlier, we didn’t have Internet yet, but compadres in other locations always transmitted scores back to us. We’d print them on the teletype and post them on the ops center wall.


18 posted on 01/20/2018 9:02:49 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Vermont Lt

How could anybody designate our troops as a “non-essential” part of our government?


20 posted on 01/20/2018 9:14:49 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Vermont Lt

HA HA

AFN and being stationed in isolated places that got the super bowl 2 weeks late, It was easy to cut the cable when I got out of the service.

Afrts is about the worst govt propaganda you can be exposed to. Tell him he is actually befitting from not having to hear it. Go outside! Take a walk!!


24 posted on 01/20/2018 9:21:58 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Don’t they have internet access?


25 posted on 01/20/2018 9:22:09 AM PST by EEGator
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One laptop and an internet connection. And a bit of ‘know how’.

There are plenty of sources for sporting venues.


27 posted on 01/20/2018 9:31:00 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Vermont Lt

But there’s money to keep them in Africa?


31 posted on 01/20/2018 11:46:57 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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In the ‘60s on the Forrestal, the only tv was in the ready room, that I recall (Maybe there was one on the Mess Deck.) And it only showed the lively action on the flight deck.

Don’t know WHAT the escort group watched /sarc

Our deployments were 9½ and 8½ months long with a fairly brief turn-around between.

Kent State came and went and probably 95% of us didn’t even know it happened.


32 posted on 01/20/2018 1:42:13 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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Active Duty ping.


37 posted on 01/20/2018 6:23:14 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Vermont Lt
You racist!

I will have babies on you, you white European hater!

38 posted on 01/20/2018 6:27:22 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Someone should put a picture of Shyster Schumer’s smug Liberal face on the TV screen with “Thanks to the Schumer Shutdown there will be no TV.” Take a picture and send it to all the families back home so they can forward it viral!


39 posted on 01/20/2018 6:42:04 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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