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To: US Navy Vet
You'd think a newspaper person in Omaha would know it's Offutt Air Force Base.

Chalk another one up to "modern journalism".

2 posted on 06/04/2012 5:18:04 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

He can blame it on writing too quickly.


3 posted on 06/04/2012 5:20:58 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: DuncanWaring

All his base are belong to us and we wouldn’t release one for the story.


4 posted on 06/04/2012 5:24:52 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Extraneous Wind sends ...)
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To: DuncanWaring
You would think that, Navy Vet, but I recently saw an official poster at Hanscom Air Force Base (Yeah, I know it's part of Air Force Materiel Command which makes it difficult to count as part of the real Air Force.) that misspelled Offutt as “Offut”. When I pointed this error out to the lieutenant colonel who had approved the poster, you would have thought I has pissed into his coffee.

I concluded that the lieutenant colonel has an IQ somewhere around the temperature last week. (I was warm here, but not enough to get his IQ out of the imbecile range.)

One would think that a base that has been named after a World War I hero who lost his life in France for almost 100 years and which is the headquarters of US Strategic Command would be spelled correctly today as all it would take would be wondering about the little squiggly line underneath the misspelling. But as I noted above having an IQ of 80 makes one unlikely to even notice that line.

6 posted on 06/04/2012 5:29:15 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Da Bro' Gotsta Go!)
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