10-08-2004 17:52									#421
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[quote]Last night around 8pm a mortar landed in the parking lot in front of my palace./quote]

man I'd love to be able to refer to something as my palace.

	10-08-2004 20:57									#422
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Smiley,

Don't think you want to be where he is.

	11-08-2004 01:28									#423
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Sheep meat, yum! Planning on having gyros?

	12-08-2004 01:03									#424
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka how the hell can they fire 2 rpgs and miss both on vehicles not moving? Do they have some kind of improvised rpgs or are they just not trained to handle it, or what do you think?

They were probably nervous as hell and didn't bother to aim correctly otherwise people on my end would have died.

	12-08-2004 01:05									#425
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley [quote]Last night around 8pm a mortar landed in the parking lot in front of my palace./quote] man I'd love to be able to refer to something as my palace.

Ok, so it's not really mine. I guess since it belonged to Saddam the Iraqi government owns it but the US Army took it fair and square during a war and it just so happens that I've squatted in it.

	12-08-2004 01:46									#426
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Yep, you marked the territory, dude!

	13-08-2004 19:52									#427
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Yesterday I saw something which is often talked about but almost never seen. Elphantitus. That's right the strange medical condition where parts of the body swell and become disgustingly enlarged. I was standing out guarding the vehicles while CA went in to have a meeting with the provencial Agricultural Minister when an elderly man walked up to me. He was walking kind of bow legged and slowly like it hurt him to walk but he came up to me and said hello. I shoke his hand and then the man handed me several pieces of paper which had English writting on it. As I read the papers I noticed that the man began to cry and I had no idea way. The papers were medical forms from the clinic on the near by American military base which said the guy had elephantitus but which did not detail the specific part of the body that was effected; there was also a perscription for anti-biotics folded in with the other papers. While I read the papers the man continued to cry and he explained to my translater that he was a very poor man who could not afford to pay for his medicine. To my astonishment the man then grabbed his nuts through his dashdasha (an Arab type of men's dress which looks similiar to a Victorian men's PJs). His scrotum was badly swollen and his nuts were nearly the size of kiwi fruit.

It was no wonder the guy was crying. He must have been in terrible pain to have such a sensitive part of his body swell up like that. I felt so bad for the guy I gave him $20 and told him to go buy his anti-biotics. After he left I remembered that I shoke his hand and so I made sure to use copious amounts of hand sanitizing lotion. I figured it was better safe then sorry.

	13-08-2004 20:01									#428
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Don't worry. Elephantitus is a parasite and usually is not transmitted through hand shakes.

	14-08-2004 09:47									#429
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I didn't think so but...

	14-08-2004 11:06									#430
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Isn't the Army looking for a few good men with big, swinging balls?

	14-08-2004 11:20									#431
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Unfortunatley I have other obligations at the moment.

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	14-08-2004 15:07									#432
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I can't blame you Oerdin, I would have done the same thing, very likely.

	23-08-2004 21:19									#433
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Oerdin,

Hope you are okay. We miss hearing from you and hope for the best.

Monk

	25-08-2004 08:04									#434
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Oerdin is OK, but not in a position to post any updates for now.

	25-08-2004 08:36									#435
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Good to hear. Thanks.

	25-08-2004 08:50									#436
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ya, he can't find a comp cable long enough to reach his foxhole right now.

	25-08-2004 12:14									#437
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No news is good news.

	26-08-2004 06:14									#438
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Ya, Johnj, thanks. Was wondering about Oerdin lately.

	05-09-2004 02:38									#439
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This thread is one of the reasons I keep reading Apolyton despite that I have stopped playing CIV3. Keep us posted - we know you are out there and that you have made some brief posts in other threads!

	10-09-2004 20:05									#440
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Indeed, the concern is worldwide...

... you and your buddies are in my prayers on a daily basis. It's really the least I can do.

	10-09-2004 20:07									#441
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It would appear his superiors frown upon activities such as posting threads like this and that is why he no longer posts updates in this thread.

	11-09-2004 00:29									#442
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quote: Originally posted by pchang It would appear his superiors frown upon activities such as posting threads like this and that is why he no longer posts updates in this thread.

Yeah, loose lips sink ships. As if it was still WW2. If that is the reason, America is a sick joke of a democracy...

EDIT: But I should not be too harsh, we used to have similar rules too, back in the Cold War when I was in the service. You were not supposed to do things like discuss politics or participate in demonstrations while in uniform. And last time they called me for a refreshment excercise, we were not allowed to bring mobile phones. But society has changed dramatically since then. Now policemen in uniform could even participate in the Gay Pride parade without risk of getting punishment.

	11-09-2004 01:02									#443
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quote: Originally posted by pchang It would appear his superiors frown upon activities such as posting threads like this and that is why he no longer posts updates in this thread.

I'm not sure why...I can't think of anything he posted that violated OPSEC.

	11-09-2004 01:21									#444
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Well, it should not be news to anyone, but his posts have once again confirmed the notion that NCO's get a lot more done w/o officers mucking about.

Perhaps they (the officer corp) don't like to look bad. Course it was never like that back in VietNam era.


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	11-09-2004 08:19									#445
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perhaps it was not so much Oerdin's blogging, but all the blogging out there.....

	11-09-2004 09:15									#446
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Too bad.

	11-09-2004 17:40									#447
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Officially the US government has 3 levels of security:

Confidential
Secret
Top Secret

in practice they are:

Secret
Top Secret
Embarassing

	11-09-2004 20:01									#448
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Here is a link to a Los Angeles Times story about Iraq blogs by soldiers from the Sunday, September 5, 2004 edition.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printed...1,2718442.story

This is a link to the NPR.org story refered to in the LA Times article.

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3867981

And a link to the Dagger JAG blog in the NPR story.

http://daggerjag.blogspot.com/

	12-09-2004 05:00									#449
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quote: Originally posted by pchang Officially the US government has 3 levels of security: Confidential Secret Top Secret

Technically, that's incorrect. I would say we're not suppose to say what the other clearences are, but I've heard them referenced in Stargate: SG-1

	12-09-2004 06:15									#450
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The special compartments are officially just further refinements of Top Secret