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US troops drink capital city’s entire beer supply in one weekend
Fox News via NY Post ^ | 10/31/2018 | Fox News

Posted on 10/31/2018 6:36:09 AM PDT by DFG

Thousands of US soldiers depleted all of the beer in Iceland’s capital over the weekend.

More than 6,000 soldiers were in Reykjavik for four days participating in the Trident Juncture 18 — a NATO-led military exercise. After their drills, the troops reportedly visited the city’s downtown bars, where they finished off the entire beer supply.

According to Icelandic magazine Visir, the brewery Ölgerð Egils Skallagrímssonar had to send emergency cases of beer to the bars.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alcohol; beer; iceland; nato; reykjavik; skallagrmssonar; usmilitary
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To: N. Theknow

Lol!!!


41 posted on 10/31/2018 7:31:45 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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42 posted on 10/31/2018 7:35:58 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: DFG
Fear - More Beer
43 posted on 10/31/2018 7:39:08 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: keats5

Was Justice Kavanaugh in town???


44 posted on 10/31/2018 7:41:42 AM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: DFG

If the walls of the Loftleidir Hotel in Reykjavík could talk what tales they could tell.


45 posted on 10/31/2018 7:45:16 AM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: rrrod

git’er done ping.


46 posted on 10/31/2018 7:49:21 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: lakecumberlandvet

47 posted on 10/31/2018 7:55:05 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Celerity
"Did it really take this author 2 weeks to write this article ?"

That's when he finally sobered up....

48 posted on 10/31/2018 7:59:19 AM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: DFG
Wait a minute...

Just a few weeks ago, Democrats were telling us that drinking beer was a bad thing.

-PJ

49 posted on 10/31/2018 7:59:50 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: roho

Forty years ago I was a Mess Sgt in the Army Guard. It was a Supply and Transport Battalion to an Infantry Brigade.

We had 185 men in the Company with some Headquarters Detachment attached to us and my mess hall.

We often ran and provided the NCO club facilities in the field for other companies that wanted to visit as well. It catered to all enlisted on annual training. We used a Transportation company semi truck to haul the beer to summer camp. In 74 we filled it.

We ran out of beer on day 7 and had to take off to a wholesaler and buy more.

As I was the Mess Sgt and was the backdoor source for ice, I never paid for anything in the NCO club.


50 posted on 10/31/2018 8:03:26 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: DFG

“emergency beer” ... has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?


51 posted on 10/31/2018 8:07:29 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: DFG

Break out the morale gear!


52 posted on 10/31/2018 8:07:54 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: roho

It’s no coincidence that “Anchors Aweigh” is the only military anthem that specifically mentions drinking.


53 posted on 10/31/2018 8:52:31 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Democrats are against a probiotic organic health food drink?? Communists!


54 posted on 10/31/2018 8:55:59 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: DFG

It's a good thing they were in Iceland, and not Sweden, or they might have been forced to resort to switching to "recycled beer", when the primary (clean) supply ran out.

(See this article ==> "Sweden's Newest Beer Is Made Using Sewage Water".)

55 posted on 10/31/2018 9:10:57 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: DFG

EU, UN, and NATO are outraged! How dare US military drink beer on leave? Bet the pub owners are happy campers.


56 posted on 10/31/2018 9:11:59 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: DFG

That’s our boys!


57 posted on 10/31/2018 9:27:52 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: CrazyIvan
"It’s no coincidence that “Anchors Aweigh” is the only military anthem that specifically mentions drinking."

Really? Without Googling, what part says that? I've heard it dozens of times, but guess I never paid attention thinking it was the weakest military cadence hymn. Yet I could pretty much recite the Marine Corps hymn lyrics, maybe even much of the Army's hymn lyrics. Also, know the first to the Air Force.

What a pathetic former Sailor. Still, I yam what I yam. Got knot?

58 posted on 10/31/2018 10:05:03 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet

“drink to the foam”


59 posted on 10/31/2018 10:24:05 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: DFG

Iceland’s entire population is only approx 1/3 million.


60 posted on 10/31/2018 12:14:45 PM PDT by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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