Well, I managed to serve 24 years in the US Navy without going to sea AT ALL!
Now that I have retired from active Naval Service, I'm going to sea on the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman for 11 days!
It will be a working trip too! No sitting back with wide eyes being a tourist, nope, I'll be on the flight deck helping the jets take off and land!
I've done this once before for my current employer, but that was for only 4 days. This trip will be for 11 days!
I'm looking forward to it.
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The old rancher said,"Well, ya know,Obama is a 'Post Turtle'.''
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.
The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road, and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'."
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of an idiot put him up there to begin with."
So, here I am, a two-day member and I'm wondering if the majority of the members on this wonderfully kooky site even know that fubar is an acronym used by the military?
It's normally used when someone or something is so incredibly messed up that it takes quite a bit of study before that person or thing is recognizable again.
So, without prolonging the suspense...
F - F**ked
U - Up
B - Beyond
A - All
R - Recognition
Now if you are reading this blog and didn't know what fubar meant before, you do now!