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Citizenship = USA; Service = USN;
Outfit = Chapel in The
Palms
My_Quest = Having as much fun as
possible in every place
possible
VT_of_a_Swallow = while carrying a
coconut?or
solo?
My_Warstory = I dreaded this tour
when I received my
orders.But
the outstanding Chapel
staff, quickly made me feel at home.It
ended up being my favorite all time tour. The beaches
are primo, the clubs a
blast. Except with dealing with a crazy husband from
12,000 miles away I loved
it.I am
still in touch with Treva
Stapleton, Julie (Jules) Tibus, Hector Perez, Becke
Stroud, Marilee Hagen.I would love to hear from the ExPats :)So drop me
an email.
My_Warstory
= I was by far the greatest pariah on DG...I was
CAAC...The base Drug and
Alcohol Counselor. Normal people show up on DG
and you leave as one of 4
types: Hunks (work out all the time), Chunks (eat all
the time), Monks (spend
all your time in church) or Drunks (self-explanitory).
The food sucked, I'm not
religeous, I couldn't drink...hell, I wound up
screening 10% of the population
of the island...So, I spent most of my time watching
the 3 TV channels and
working out. Thank God I had a bike when I was
there. I was there on
September 11th...command ordered MWR to quit selling
alcohol....10 days later,
about 6 hours shy of a mutiny, they re-lit the
drinking lamp...there was some
nervous times though. Overall, good tour. Great
weather. I worked with good
people. As much as people complain...I liked it
there...I guess it's what you
make of it...my next duty station after DG was 30
months in Keflavik, Iceland...
VT_of_a_Swallow
= Are you
suggesting coconuts migrate?
My_Warstory
= Made two trips to
the island pre-9/11 to support the Offut AFB aircraft
that transited through
there. Couple of memories: Getting told
about 4 hours after landing
that I had made MSgt. The AF Captain in charge
of the Det (Doug Heath)
there was thrilled to tell me 'cause it was the first
time he ever was able to
tell an enlisted they made rank (my buddy Dan Hawkins
also made rank).
The promotion party at the Brit Club was epic...Thanks
to SGT Cheesman from the
Royal Marine (Commando) detachment there--not sure if
my liver ever forgave
me. Also remember watching one of the "Queen's
Crabs" attack
our truck on the flightline. Don't screw with
the Queen's Crabs
there. Or the Queen's Asses either.
My_Warstory
= hey this
is a real story, i have my record in B.I.O.T. police
station. i was put in jail
damn it was soooo cold during my inprisonment thats
the time the jail was
renovated. it was also the time when timmy was put to
sleep. he is a military
dog.i still remember R.O.P.Os name like ROPO 5 Haydee
Dunn ROPO 10 Andy Varah,
ROPO 6 David Mcaffrey, ROPO 11 Ollie Olsen. most of
the british military have
become my friends especially andy varah, he visited me
in philippines twice.
hey who can forget the fullmoon platoon and island
wide picnic. gosh i miss the
place its a unique paradise. Anyway i lost my temper
which led to my
imrisonment and lost my good job. too much opportunity
have lost. now i am
working in saudi arabia but given a chance i want to
work in D.G. again. by the
way my purpose for posting my story is to have a
communication to any of the
brit military who took care of me. i was not treated
as a prisoner i became
trustee right away. guys im ronnie contanct me in my
e- mail ad. bhaywolf 69@yahoo.com
ronaldo mangalino. thx
My_Warstory
= I WAS FROM
CALIFORNIA, TRAVIS AFB, PAYIN' BACK OL' BIN LADEN FOR
HIS SEPTEMBER 11 MISTAKE.
ANYWAY, IT WAS NEW YEARS EVE 2001-2002, AND I FOUND
OUT I WAS GOING HOME THE
NEXT DAY. ZAPP [FROM ROGER AND ZAPP] CAME AND HAD A
CONCERT TO HELP US DEPLOYED
AIRMAN GET IN THE MOOD FOR NEW YEARS EVE. SO THE WHOLE
ISLAND WAS BUZZIN' FROM
COOKOUTS TO DRINKIN' DANCING AND ACTIN' WILD. BY THE
TIME THE NEW YEARS
COUNTDOWN STARTED I WAS WAISTED. ME AND MY
WARTIME BROTHERS AND SISTERS
WERE AT THE BRIT CLUB COUNTING DOWN WHEN A GROUP OF
CHICKS GOT NAKED AND JUMPED
IN THE WATER OF COURSE WE ALL GOT DOWN TO OUR BIRTHDAY
SUITS AND JUMPED IN THE
WATER ....,.. 3....2....1.... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! AND
THE LUCKY ONES
SHARED A DRUNKIN' NAKED NEW YEARS KISS. BEST ONE EVER
GOD BLESS DIEGO GARCIA
AND ALL THE SOLDIERS WHO BEEN THERE, PEACE.
Mark Travis
[markj1957@msn.com]
Your
website:
http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/tankeropsdg.html
has some great pics
of the mission we completed on Diego Garcia in 2001.
While the
lead sentence states the
28th AEW was formed on Oct 9, it seems to allude to
that being the date
everyone arrived.
I traveled
with the 34th Bomb Sq.
out of Mountain Home supporting the aircraft
maintenance side of the
house. I’m fairly certain we got there on the
23rd of Sept. The
KC-10s, B-52’s and B-1’s were already there at that
time.
In fact, on
Oct 7th, we launched
the aircraft to begin the war. What a
sight. The lone runway was
lined with GI’s waving US Flags. 10 B-1, 10 B-52
and 12 KC-10 lifted off
in about 30 minutes. I swear the island lifted
10 inches out of the
water.
All the
jets took off heading
south. They formed up south of the island,
turned and headed north.
They came back over the island at about 30 MSL,
refueling and leaving contrails
in their wake. An incredible day….it was payback
time. And it felt
good.
I'm looking
to get in contact w/
any air traffic controllers that were on board from
2000-2002. Pineapple,
4days, Bertram, Shannon, Jew, Bean, Kat... where
are you guys!?!
AC2
Aaron "OX" Stregles
July 2001
to June 2002
NAME = Jon
"Bernie"
Nicholson
MY QUEST =
To live in a place with
bars and live music w/in walking distance again
VT of a
SWALLOW = 122 mph......if
she doesn't sneeze on you
RANK/RATE/JOB
= Got out of gov
work last summer. 15 years was enough. Almost
found a wife on DG but it
didn't work out....but made good friends anyway. Hello
to all those Filipinos I
left behind
MY INTEREST
IN DG IS = Stroll Down
Memory Lane
SUBJECT OF
MY STORY: = I am a Born
Liar, and Want To Tell About All The Sex I Had on
Dodge
MY WARSTORY
= Actually I had no
sex on the island. At least none that I recall.
My friggin co-worker met
a Navy gal on the plane over from Singapore
and that
bastard was set for the
next two months. She had some big ol knockers.
Hey, worse
two weeks on the island
is when they had a curfew and no alcohol sales after
9/11. The filipinos made
bucks selling liquor under the table to
thirsty
contractors.
I really
liked the bands,
specially the first one from PI. One of the
singers got married to
another contractor while I was there. Just
before Christmas
there was a
band from Bali and
rumor was that the little Indonesian singer would give
it up for $150. Who
knows if it's true.
Miss those
late nights at the
Fil-Mau and the nights when Luz at the CPO club kept
pouring them after closing
time. Also miss kidding around with those
ladies at
the Seaman's and Peace
Keeper at lunch.
Just
remembered when an AF reserve
Major (I think) just flew in as part of the OEF exped
force. He walks into
Seaman's and tells one of the Mariner's to take his
hat off inside the club.
The guy tells him to screw himself and the Pilot says
he's going to tell the
manager. The manager over hears and tells the pilot
that he's going to have to
leave before he gets thrown out. Good fun, those
sailors for hire.
Subject:
A
great site that killed time for me in the Bag
I just
spent a good afternoon
killing time by reading about DG.
I am
presently working In the
wonderful country of Iraq.
I support
the Comm infrastructure
rebuild project.
I worked on
DG in 2001 as a Diver
for about a month supporting the UCT one guys who
helped install the subcable
off the T building. I did all the dive, cable install
equipment install and QA
and basically hung out.
DG reminds
me of other islands
that I spent a good deal of time working at Ascension
and less so Wake.
The parties
at the afore mentioned
sites where as good as the ones I have read about at
DG, unfortunately I quit
partying like I did in the 80s do to kidney and liver
damage from Malaria and
probably 10 cent highballs at the volcano club.
If you are
in Iraq ping me I am
heading up to Talil in near future.
Thanks for
the great time spent on
your island.
JR
SGI
Field
Operations
Baghdad
Iraq
summer of
2001
NAME = bill
shaver
MY QUEST =
to stay out of wars
VT of a
SWALLOW =
?????????????????????????????????
MY INTEREST
IN DG IS = My Time
There is Lost in an Alcoholic Haze, Help Me Remember!
SUBJECT OF
MY STORY: = Other
MY WARSTORY
= this was a surreal
place, not even Cuba compares to it! But anyways my
time there was somewahat
boring and a real pain in the ass, as the people i
worked for on the Kaiser,
reall assholes you might say From Captain on down!
But
anyway my whole memories are of visiting Seamans club
every opertunity, which
was everyday as the Kaiser never went anywhere so it
was this or fall asleep at
outside theater, you know Mosquito cinema!! Along with
long talks & big
drinks with that redhead from USnavy , can't remember
her name, .. strange...
she had big hooters you know, quite popular with
people on the Bonneyman &
J.L. Hauge Jr. Anyone remember who she was & last
heard she was being
forced off the island by her superiors on the Island
as for her behavior was
not up to snuff for them, typical squid assholes in
charge of nothing you know
oh well hope to hear from her some day as she was
alively one! Not like some of
the others around there
June 2001
NAME = Bill
MY QUEST =
To never have to stay
in such silly place as Diego garcia again!!!
VT of a
SWALLOW = who cares
E-MAIL =
mrcanoehead@canoemail.com
NATIONALITY
= all
SERVICE =
worked on comerce ships
in anchorage
RANK/RATE/JOB
= Farm Manager in
Cuba
MY INTEREST
IN DG IS = Other
SUBJECT OF
MY STORY: = Other
MY WARSTORY
= You know i
thought Cuba was a sureal place till My job on one of
those ships that sit
there & go nowhere , boy how silly a place it was,
cheasey food, crummy
stories, lousy movies, crummy phone/computer service
etc, etc, Except for the island
itselfm must have been interesting to see it befor we
set up those listening
posts.The lives of that comunity were surely ruined
for the sake of the USA .
anyway
it was extremly boring all the time 24hrs/day, hope to
never see anyone
from there again.
Best
part was ship headed to Sembawag shipyard to get fixed
& my 2 week
stay in Singapoer with girlf friend who workes at
Intercontinental hotel , met
her in Dubai several years ago.
MY INTEREST
IN DG IS = Please
Select The Category That Best Discribes Your Interest
in Diego Garcia
SUBJECT OF
MY STORY: = Please
Select a Title For Your Story, or Select 'Other'
MY WARSTORY
= Livin back in good
old Ohio now. Had a blast living on the island. Never
had a captain and coke
until I went to the Brit Club, and its still my
favorite drink today! Get
memories everytime I drink one. Any you guys from
metoc that remember me, write
me...I kind of miss the rock.
What an
awesome site! I was lucky
enough to be in Diego for 18 months with the P-3
bubbas...had the best year and
one half of my life (seriously)....looking at your
site brought a little tear
to the eye, man...anyway, I saw you had the EXPAT club
listed on there still,
and thought I'd give ya a heads-up that it was no
longer alive...the SEABEES
had to tear it down when they realized it was going to
come crashing down at
any moment...the dirty PHILMAU is sitll around though,
still providing the
usual wild crowds with Salsa and Caribbean style
music. And the Brit Club
is massive since I was there...the built a huge
covered deck, and tore away the
shrubbery behind it (no more sneaking off with the
DGAR queens behind the
scabby!). Anyway, wanted to say thanks for
bringing me back to the place
that time forgot...have a good one.
I am a
former Diego Garcian (08jan2001-08jan2002), and still
maintain contact with
some friends who work there and some who just got
there (and yes I laughed at
them, and they didn't get the joke until the day they
got their, and the
message was VERY rude:), and I just got an interesting
article on cable and
wireless. thought you'd be interested.
Also,
while I was there, I ran the islands first bird
abatement program (as an
admitted cargo pilot, thought you might be interested
in the efforts to reduce
the problems of cattle egrets on the island) for nine
months.
anyway,
here is the article;
THIS
ARTICLE IS ABOUT OUR ONLY PHONE COMPANY ON ISLAND
. THIS ARTICLE CAN BE
FOUND AT :
> >
It is praised by financial analysts for its remarkable
re-invention. It
> >
praises itself for what it claims as the world's most
technologically
> >
advanced IP network. But it still makes too much of
its money via
> >
neo-colonialist monopoly arrangements in third-world
countries.
> >
> >
The company is Cable & Wireless. And despite the
rave reviews, it remains
> >
a company that makes money in odious ways.
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>
> 'What is most offensive about this
odious company is the way
it
> >
uses the monopoly rents of small, poor island nations
to subsidise its
> >
loss-making fibre networks in rich European and
American countries.'
> >
> >
Cable & Wireless has a proud beginning, building
the first submarine
> >
cables in the 19th century. Not long after, it spread
out, taking
> >
advantage of the economic reach of the British Empire
to secure itself
> >
telephony franchises in the Caribbean, Central
America, the Pacific Ocean
> >
and the British Far East Asia.
> >
> >
Of course, these days Cable & Wireless gets most
attention for its
> >
expansive IP network roll-out, reaching some 84 cities
across the world
> >
with OC-192 connectivity.
> >
> >
But this IP-centric business focus isn't yet
profitable. Indeed, as a
> >
business unit, it lost some $317 million in the last
financial year.
> >
> >
Where does Cable & Wireless make its real money?
Jamaica, Ascension
> >
Island, Panama, the Falkland Islands, Diego Garcia,
and lots of other
> >
places that are (1) small, (2) poor, and (3) suffer
the misfortune to be
> >
ex-British colonies.
> >
> >
Pound of Flesh
> >
Together, Cable & Wireless' island monopolies are
home to only a few
> >
million people with limited incomes. But Cable &
Wireless certainly
> >
extracts its pound of flesh.
> >
> >
Indeed, Cable & Wireless made some $298 million in
pure profit from its
> >
'regional businesses' last year, along with another
$104 million in
> >
Australia and $425 million from 'discontinued
operations' mainly Hong Kong
> >
Telecom.
> >
> >
For many years, Cable & Wireless made most of its
profits from Hong Kong.
> >
And although the British finally handed Hong Kong back
to China in 1997,
> >
Hong Kong taxpayers were then forced to cough up
billions to 'compensate'
> >
Cable & Wireless for the early termination of the
monopoly licence granted
> >
by the British administration in the mid-1980s.
> >
> >
And what a monopoly it was. Cable & Wireless took
advantage of Hong Kong's
> >
small borders to charge full IDD rates for calls
travelling as few as 15
> >
miles to neighbouring cities in China and the
adjoining enclave of Macau,
> >
where the local telephone company was also owned by
Cable & Wireless. At
> >
one point, Hong Kong Telecom was returning almost half
its sales in
> >
profits!
> >
> >
But while the Hong Kong cashcow has been consigned to
history, the cashcow
> >
of a whole bunch of former British Empire island
nations continues on. A
> >
quick perusal of the ITU's list of international
settlement charges shows
> >
that the most expensive in the world are always levied
by a Cable &
> >
Wireless property on some island nation. What's more,
these countries are
> >
being left behind by Cable & Wireless monopoly
rents and refusal to invest
> >
profits back into their infrastructure.
> >
> >
Enough is enough
> >
Just this past March, five of them in the East
Caribbean got together and
> >
said enough is enough. High phone charges and
under-investment were
> >
leaving them marginalised from the world economy. So
they forced Cable &
> >
Wireless to step aside and face liberalisation. Cable
& Wireless was
> >
petulant in negotiations, threatening to disrupt phone
service without an
> >
orderly transition. After it agreed to the
liberalisations, it spitefully
> >
laid off hundreds of local workers.
> >
> >
What is most offensive about this odious company is
the way it uses the
> >
monopoly rents of small, poor island nations to
subsidise its loss-making
> >
fibre networks in rich European and American
countries. Its grand new IP
> >
network doesn't extend out to these places - when it
is clear those
> >
economies would benefit from being connected to the
world's broadband
> >
network. When it does invest in these regions it's the
usual eye-rolling
> >
affair - an e-business centre in Bermuda for British
companies' offshore
> >
tax haven registrations is one of the few examples it
can provide of
> >
'regional' investment.
> >
> >
Of course, not all of the profit makes its way back
into first world IP
> >
investment. Some $197 million of it was given back to
Cable & Wireless'
> >
British and American shareholders in dividends last
year.
> >
> >
The East Caribbean actions of last month should
empower other countries to
> >
end C&W's monoploy deals. It may have been all
right for the British to
> >
plunder the world's island natives back when 19th
century values of
> >
business morality prevailed, but it's clearly not
acceptable in the 21st
> >
century. Good riddance to the world's worst telephone
company.
1996-2001
NAME =
Richard Chase
MY QUEST
= Telephone company
VT of a
SWALLOW = Aleph null
E-MAIL =
rchaseio@yahoo.com
NATIONALITY
= USA
UNIT =
BJS-DG21
RANK/RATE/JOB
= Public Works Director
MY
INTEREST IN DG IS = Want to Drink A Lot, Cheap
SUBJECT
OF MY STORY: = Other
MY
WARSTORY = I noticed new stories by George Laughlin
and Harry Johnson, so I
thought I'd chime in. Here is my first day in DG,
September 1996:
I had
been traveling for days to get there. Anyone who has
been there can remember
the ever-infamous Paya Lebar rerun, where you show up
at the airfiled day after
day to get a seat. All I can say is, "Thanks Helen Lee
for making all my
Singapore stays bearable!" So I finally get a seat on
KC-10 (AKA indoor
rainstorm). I was dead tired and thrashed from the
travelling. I did find a
spare pint of Tanduay from PI that got me through the
flight.
When I
landed, I went through the standard Brit customs
drill, "No bongs, knives,
or explosives. ANY video tapes will be confiscated and
viewed for
pornography!"
My boss
picked me up and drove me to BEQ-8, where the
contractors stayed. It was
Tuesday night. I noticed that there was a huge party
out front of the
BEQ. There was comely Filipina bartende (Helen
from Seamen's Club) who
kept forcing me to drink. And drink I did. It turned
out that BJS used to have
a weekly shindig each Tuesday.
That was
my first exposure to DG. I met Harry Swartout, Conrad
Matt, Ray Weaver, George
Laughlin, and many others that night. I stayed for 6
years and ended up in the
local island band. Great memories.
UNIT = IPAC
and BJS until 1999,
NFCU fm 2001 to 2003
MY INTEREST
IN DG IS = Stroll Down
Memory Lane
SUBJECT OF
MY STORY: = Actually, I
Have a Real Story To Tell
MY WARSTORY
= One of my
fondest years on Dg was back when Capt. Check (CO) and
CDR Bob Collard(SUPO),
would call me and my buddy, Flightline Freddie to the
O Club so we could drink
for free all night coz the O's could not play Hosre
Collar. That was fun, even
when the Marine XO would climb into the rafters and
pour beer on us. Another
grand time was getting with Jack and the gang and
building the Golf Course,
then playng it. There was the two years that BJS
golfers would play the Brit
Party every Tuesday. It started out being a fun once a
month deal, for beer and
build your own at the Expac afterward, but with the
wipping that we (BJS) gave
the Brits the first time. The Brit Rep. CDR Gram Niven
changed the program to
weekly. We even had a trophy at the Club House with
the weekly score posted.
I'd have to say the we (BJS) won 98% of the time.
Grand times at the course. If
anyone wants to complain at not having a good time on
the island for several
years I was the one who brought the EAP Charter to the
island and you missed
out. Even though the EAP turned into the Dave Burges
Fan Club. More stories to
come. YA-HOO
MY
WARSTORY = me and some friends were drinking by the
cannons on the beach and
decided to head back to Camp Justice. with a six pack
left of Corona...I
decided to stay at thr pier while my friends went back
to camp (no alcohol in
tent city). while I was drinking...some
gal popped out of the blue
and just stood there looking at the coastline. being
drunk..I offered her a
back massage...next thing you know...we started messin
around on the pier. I
would like to know...who this gal was.
28 April
2001-7 May 2002.
NAME =
Doug "Radar" Heath -- Former Det 1, 13AF/CC (PACAF)
MY QUEST
= Single-Handedly Repopulate the World with REDHEADS!!
RANK/RATE/JOB
= Major, Currently stationed on Guam
douglas.heath@andersen.af.mil
MY
INTEREST IN DG IS = My Time There is Lost in an
Alcoholic Haze, Help Me
Remember!
SUBJECT
OF MY STORY: = There I Was, Passed Out in the Club
MY
WARSTORY = EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT, BAYBEE! haha!
Too many
war stories to tell right now. From the very first
landing of the 28 AEW...my
dynamic Detachment of 14 souls caught the first 800
troops and 32
aircraft
without assistance. We worked 44 hours straight, along
with our outstanding
buddies in the BIOT Police (ROPOS ROCK!!!!) and the
Royal Marines
(God
Bless 'EM!!!) but we got through it.
There was
some whining by the deployed dudes (seemingly very
angry that the
"permanent party" PACAF Det had hard-billets
downtown--forgetting
that we are on a REMOTE for a YEAR there! That was our
PERMANENT HOME!)--but
they came around and remembered that we were at
WAR...except for this one...
[editor's note: There's ALWAYS one - I had one
in '87 during ERNEST
WILL).
I
digress....a WONDERFUL year on island...became very
busy but we as a unified
team (AF, NAVY, BRITS, AUSSIES) WE (ONE ISLAND, ONE
TEAM, ONE MISSION) did a
great job and really shined! God Bless CAPT Lucarelli,
and the Brit Rep (CMDR
Peters)!!!
My
Detachment was AWESOME! I will always be proud of my
AWESOME Airmen!
I was a
frequent guest of your club when I flew cargo to DG. I
am a C-5 Pilot with the
337th AS at Westover ARB, MA. I signed up as a
member, but don’t have a
card! (I vaguely remember giving $20.00, but am not
sure what happened after
that!) Anyway, I can provide proof that I was there
and would like to get a
membership card (even if I have to pay again).
Proof would be the form of
a verbal reprimand we received from a Colonel that
chewed us out for swimming
in the pool after hours.... Yah, we were the guys that
were sleeping in the gym
at the beginning of OEF - before the BUFF guys.
I proudly wear the red
hat, and get several looks here in Massachusetts, as
to where DG is, but that’s
fine.
Respectfully,
Patrick J.
Egan Jr.
Captain,
USAF
November
2001-November 2002
NAME =
Melissa
MY QUEST
= To Forget the Past and Start a New Future
NATIONALITY
= American; SERVICE = USN Separated; UNIT =
NSF/Weapons Dept.;
RANK/RATE/JOB = AO3
MY
INTEREST IN DG IS = My Time There is Lost in an
Alcoholic Haze, Help Me
Remember!
SUBJECT
OF MY STORY: = I am a Born Liar, and Want To Tell
About All The Sex I Had on
Dodge
MY
WARSTORY = I am really missing Dodge, had a lot of
great friends that I will
probably never see again, and alot of sex most bad, a
few good, the rest were
great. I mean, come on, that's what it was
mostly about right drinking
and sex!!!!! I was great though, I hated to
leave though I thought I was
ready to go.
NATIONALITY
= US; SERVICE = Navy; UNIT = METOC; RANK/RATE/JOB =
Active
duty....for a couple more years.
MY
INTEREST IN DG IS = Professional Adventurer Looking
For The Ultimate Get Away
SUBJECT
OF MY STORY: = Actually, I Have a Real Story To Tell
MY
WARSTORY = Cultural friendships, Panama, Village
parties, island sports, The
"Crawl", METOC, Afghanistan, Refocused life, fishing,
Yacht Club, Friday
night "Meetings", Latino Night......Do your job and
enjoy
life.....But the greatest gift DGAR produced is my
wife...Irais...Life is whole
again and Diego Garcia was my saving grace.
January-Mar
2001
NAME =
Jennifer
MY QUEST
= To find entertainment on Diego Garcia
VT of a
SWALLOW = What is a terminal velocity of which
swallow?
MY QUEST =
To seek the Holy Grail
and pocket some cash as a contractor
VT of a
SWALLOW = Yellow or
brown?.............What is your favorite
color............Blue no
red....AHHHHHHHH
NATIONALITY
= U.S.; UNIT = SATCOM;
RANK/RATE/JOB = Used to be Navy..now a traveling
contractor
MY INTEREST
IN DG IS =
Geo-political Rabble Rousing
SUBJECT OF
MY STORY: = Other
MY WARSTORY
= No stories yet, but
plan on being the subject of many. Updates will
be provided on an as
happens basis.
Well,.... there is this
story, but this one
sounds a little to far-fetched for even the most jaded
of DGers....
2001-now
NAME = charlie
MY QUEST = To find chicken
repellent.
VT of a SWALLOW = Depends
how long she's been on
island.
E-MAIL = middleofio@yahoo.com;
NATIONALITY = American;
SERVICE = Navy; UNIT = WX
MY INTEREST IN DG IS = Want
to Drink A Lot, Cheap
SUBJECT OF MY STORY: =
Actually, I Have a Real Story
To Tell
MY WARSTORY = A buddy of
mine that had already spent
12 months on DG was 2 days from leaving. To keep
him from being
imbarrassed we'll just call him John. We decided
to get him as drunk as
possible and succeeded to do so. Mind you that he was
here for 12 months and 12
long months with no action(if you know what I
mean). He said that he was
not going to leave here without getting some. I
told him that he could
use my room for the night. When we wnet to pick
him up for breakfast the
next morning we walked into a room with feathers all
over an 12 dead
chickens. Little did he know he did a
cock. For those of you that
don't know about the island there are more chickens
here than women. And
tons of desperate men.
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