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OT, but I had to share - 7/26/2007 10:24:12 PM

JWE

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Friend of mine, Maj. J. Faustini, USMC, sent me this. He thought it was funny and thought I would get a kick out of it. There's lots more and I stripped out the ops headers and the endorsements. Funny thing, a G5 civ tellin the Crotch how to do what they do. Can you hear my tears.

Dr. CIV V Corps Deputy G5, CIMIC/US Executive, Maneuver Programs;
Giangrego, Salvatore Mr. V Corps G5, Manuever Management

To: All Commands

Subject: U.S. Navy Directive 16134

Ref: ComMidEast (mip://03620fb8) For Inst 16134//24 K
All commanders promulgate upon receipt.

The following T-shirts are no longer to be worn on or off base by any
military or civilian personnel serving in the Middle East:

A. "Eat Pork or Die" [both English and Arabic versions]
B. "Shrine Busters" [Various. Show burning minarets or bomb/artillery
shells impacting Islamic shrines. Some with unit logos.]
C. "Napalm, Sticks Like Crazy" [Both English and Arabic versions]
D. "Goat - it isn't just for breakfast any more." [Both English and
Arabic versions]
E. "The road to Paradise begins with me." [Mostly Arabic versions, but
some in English. Some show sniper scope cross-hairs.]
F. "Guns don't kill people. I kill people." [Both Arabic and English
versions]
G. "Pork. The other white meat." [Arabic version]
H. "Infidel" [English, Arabic and other coalition force languages.]

The above T-shirts are to be removed from Post Exchanges upon receipt
of this directive. In addition, the following signs are to be removed
upon receipt of this message:

A. "Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range at
0800 Daily.
B. "Do we really need 'smart bombs' to drop on these dumb
bastards?"

All commands are instructed to implement sensitivity training with respect to the above topics upon
receip.

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/26/2007 10:48:50 PM

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Thats good. I like "E" the best.

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/26/2007 11:11:11 PM

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Nice one - I Like them all, but both "B's" are great

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 12:33:51 AM

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2 that were popular in my day:
1) Nuke em till they glow and shoot em in the dark.
2) Wheres the beef? (water buffalo pic)

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 12:55:40 AM

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USN-2
Libya-0
T-Shirt also had a picture of a Flogger going down in flames.

I'd fly 1000 miles to smoke a camel
Very popular during DS

A popular one from the engineering department on the Tommy-T:
USS Truxtun - Where the shaft never stops. The Cheng actually let us wear them. Poor deluded guy.

Geeze am I dateing myself or what?

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 1:13:23 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Whipple

USN-2
Libya-0
T-Shirt also had a picture of a Flogger going down in flames.

I'd fly 1000 miles to smoke a camel
Very popular during DS

A popular one from the engineering department on the Tommy-T:
USS Truxtun - Where the shaft never stops. The Cheng actually let us wear them. Poor deluded guy.

Geeze am I dateing myself or what?

Whipple

? - 1985 on the Flogger?

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 6:33:08 AM

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I used to have one that showed a nuclear explosion on the front with the caption, "Made in USA, Tested in Japan."

On the back read, "Watch out Russia, you're next!"

This was back in the 80's right in the midst of the Cold war. The Japanese were somewhat "sensitive" to us wearing them while deployed to Japan so they were banned.

My other favorite was my hat (which I like to wear around war protesters. It shows a P-3 heading away from a nuclear explosion with the caption, "Now it's Miller time!" I've gotten some "funny" reactions from peaceniks.

Chez

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 3:00:09 PM

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This one made my jaw drop:

A. "Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range at
0800 Daily.

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 5:19:41 PM

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I had a similar t-shirt with a B-52 flying at you with a mushroom cloud in the back ground also saying "its Miller time".

quote:

ORIGINAL: ChezDaJez

I used to have one that showed a nuclear explosion on the front with the caption, "Made in USA, Tested in Japan."

On the back read, "Watch out Russia, you're next!"

This was back in the 80's right in the midst of the Cold war. The Japanese were somewhat "sensitive" to us wearing them while deployed to Japan so they were banned.

My other favorite was my hat (which I like to wear around war protesters. It shows a P-3 heading away from a nuclear explosion with the caption, "Now it's Miller time!" I've gotten some "funny" reactions from peaceniks.

Chez

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 5:51:35 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Wolfie1

quote:

ORIGINAL: Whipple

USN-2
Libya-0
T-Shirt also had a picture of a Flogger going down in flames.

I'd fly 1000 miles to smoke a camel
Very popular during DS

A popular one from the engineering department on the Tommy-T:
USS Truxtun - Where the shaft never stops. The Cheng actually let us wear them. Poor deluded guy.

Geeze am I dateing myself or what?

Whipple

? - 1985 on the Flogger?

Oops. Fritters, not floggers.

Whipple

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1981 RTC, SD
81-82 NPS, Orlando
82-85 NPTU, Idaho Falls
85-90 USS Truxtun (CGN-35)
90-93 USS George Washington (CVN-73)
93-96 NFAS Orlando
96-01 Navsea-08/Naval Reactors

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 6:12:22 PM

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IUSS (ASW Network) T-Shirt - "In God We Trust, All Others We Track."

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 9:17:45 PM

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Word from elsewhere is that this is a fake...

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/27/2007 11:48:06 PM

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Picture of B-52 flying away from a nuclear fireball. T-shirt caption was "SAC When it absolutely, positively has to be there tonight."

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/28/2007 12:03:50 AM

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Word from elsewhere? My how cryptic. You can tell it's bogus just from the header and the suntax, as anyone who has ever served, and has ever looked at an official communication, would immediately recognize. You don't need some secret elsewhere to tell you that. Besides, Jim is at Pendleton and would not likely be on the distribution for what is obviously masquerading as a CAPIRG communication.

He thought I would be amused; and I was. I thought I would share; and I did.

Who cares?

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/28/2007 12:14:59 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: dtravel

Picture of B-52 flying away from a nuclear fireball.� T-shirt caption was "SAC� When it absolutely, positively has to be there tonight."

Back in my day it was 105mm with a caption "10 Mile Sniper"

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/28/2007 3:27:56 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: JWE

Friend of mine, Maj. J. Faustini, USMC, sent me this. He thought it was funny and thought I would get a kick out of it. There's lots more and I stripped out the ops headers and the endorsements. Funny thing, a G5 civ tellin the Crotch how to do what they do. Can you hear my tears.

Dr. CIV V Corps Deputy G5, CIMIC/US Executive, Maneuver Programs;
Giangrego, Salvatore Mr. V Corps G5, Manuever Management

To: All Commands

Subject: U.S. Navy Directive 16134

Ref: ComMidEast (mip://03620fb8) For Inst 16134//24 K
All commanders promulgate upon receipt.

The following T-shirts are no longer to be worn on or off base by any
military or civilian personnel serving in the Middle East:

A. "Eat Pork or Die" [both English and Arabic versions]
B. "Shrine Busters" [Various. Show burning minarets or bomb/artillery
shells impacting Islamic shrines. Some with unit logos.]
C. "Napalm, Sticks Like Crazy" [Both English and Arabic versions]
D. "Goat - it isn't just for breakfast any more." [Both English and
Arabic versions]
E. "The road to Paradise begins with me." [Mostly Arabic versions, but
some in English. Some show sniper scope cross-hairs.]
F. "Guns don't kill people. I kill people." [Both Arabic and English
versions]
G. "Pork. The other white meat." [Arabic version]
H. "Infidel" [English, Arabic and other coalition force languages.]

The above T-shirts are to be removed from Post Exchanges upon receipt
of this directive. In addition, the following signs are to be removed
upon receipt of this message:

A. "Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range at
0800 Daily.
B. "Do we really need 'smart bombs' to drop on these dumb
bastards?"

All commands are instructed to implement sensitivity training with respect to the above topics upon
receip.

Can't for the life o' me think why they don't seem to have taken you guys over there

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RE: OT, but I had to share - 7/28/2007 7:03:12 AM

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My ammo chief in Desert Storm had a shirt sent to him that had the Nike swoosh but it said 'Nuke' instead of 'Nike'...it said 'Nuke Iraq - just do it'

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