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German troops in Afghanistan drank more than 1.8 million pints of beer last year
Telegraph.co.uk ^
| 17 Nov 2008
Posted on 12/03/2008 3:38:51 PM PST by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude
US soldiers are banned from consuming it completely. No booze, no porn - what were we fighting for?
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:40:52 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
To: Joiseydude; GOP_Raider
“German defence ministry defended their troops, saying that consumption was well within the allowed limit”
1.8 million liters and how many troops?
LOL
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:41:45 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:42:11 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:42:13 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
To: Old Sarge
>>what were we fighting for?
Cigars! Man, Ceeegaahs!
Oops, Oh, never mind.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:43:10 PM PST
by
swarthyguy
(*Bush Promised us Osama, instead we're getting Obama*)
To: Joiseydude
I know nuthink! I see nuthink!!!
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:43:47 PM PST
by
gridlock
(Global Warming is like The Homeless. It will disappear the moment a Democrat is in the White House.)
To: Joiseydude
Germans think beer is food.
BTW, for those with wheat intolerance, barley and rye have the same type of gluten that causes the problem so no beer either ~
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:44:35 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Joiseydude
It would not surprise me that in true spirit of coalition interoperability, the Germans are taking one (or several) for their U.S. counterparts who of course would never violate General Order 1 in CENTCOM and drink any alcohol. /eye roll
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:48:20 PM PST
by
Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
(We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
To: Joiseydude
British pints or American?
To: Joiseydude
With the Guard in the Vietnam era, our Supply and Transport Company (of an Infantry Support Battalion) left for Annual Training with a forty foot transport trailer loaded to the roof with cases of assorted brands of Barley Pop.
We set up our NCO club and some of the other companies in our battallion with less “logistical foresight” helped consume the strategic reserves.
We ran out and had to go for resupply with four days left to endure of the summer of ‘73.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:49:58 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
To: muawiyah
>>Germans think beer is food.
Beer IS food. Liquid bread.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:51:37 PM PST
by
swarthyguy
(*Bush Promised us Osama, instead we're getting Obama*)
To: Old Sarge
Sarge, if you believe our boys don’t spend a little cash buying booze from the Germans, we were in a different Army.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:52:15 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware of Obama's Reichstag Fire; Don't permit him to seize emergency powers.)
To: swarthyguy
Ah, yes, those faux-Cubans that were availabel all over theater; camel-pies rolled in date palms.
I preferred my pipe or the hookas.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:54:02 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
To: Joiseydude
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:54:16 PM PST
by
usmcobra
(Go ask Obama for your change, and don't bug me!)
To: MeanWestTexan
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:54:21 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
To: Joiseydude
Well I'm sure even the left can finally agree that the war is going good for some people.
To: muawiyah
The German Supreme Court ruled a few years back, it is illegal to prohibit bier to workers at “brotzeit” (morning snack) or at lunch.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:57:02 PM PST
by
patton
(Help - My antivirus software keeps trying to delete Vista as malicious code!)
To: Joiseydude
>>3,600 German troops in Afghanistan as part of Nato’s ISA operation are each drinking around 490 pints or beer
Sounds like a lot but assuming a TourofDuty of a year and a 4 months, that’s approximately one pint a day.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:57:02 PM PST
by
swarthyguy
(*Bush Promised us Osama, instead we're getting Obama*)
To: Joiseydude
US soldiers are banned from consuming it completely U.S. soldiers must leave a small amount in each glass.
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posted on
12/03/2008 3:57:47 PM PST
by
FoxInSocks
(B. Hussein Obama: The Paucity of Hope)
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