US Forces Demonstrate Cultural Insensitivity Again
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US Forces Demonstrate Cultural Insensitivity Again
The USAF has had to apologize to Afghani Muslims for offending them by including non-Halal food items in Air Drops conducted in a "Win the Hearts" Operation.
When will we learn?
Air Force Apologizes For ?Tasteless? Christmas Ham Drop In Afghanistan
When will we learn?
Air Force Apologizes For ?Tasteless? Christmas Ham Drop In Afghanistan
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Sorry
, but after I stopped p!ssing myself laughing, you are indeed correct, major fail, and you would have to wonder how such and obvious b@llsup could happen.
The sad thing is, the extremist mullahs will take it as some deliberate act and try to stir things up.
, but after I stopped p!ssing myself laughing, you are indeed correct, major fail, and you would have to wonder how such and obvious b@llsup could happen.The sad thing is, the extremist mullahs will take it as some deliberate act
and try to stir things up.
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US Forces Demonstrate Cultural Insensitivity Again
Sad thing is (and I know this will make me controversial for knowing this), Muhammed did tell the People that if you are hungry, Allah will understand if you eat food that is not halal. He knows when you are starving and need to do something to live...It's actually quite a flexible book, more so than Leviticus!
Standing back and waiting for the assault now...
Standing back and waiting for the assault now...
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What an excellent newssite, and with such refreshingly honest articles! That article about the USAF being found guilty of a conspiracy to recruit all the hot chicks, just reinforces what we always suspected!! 
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Which may be the problem. Delete all the bits you don't like.
Reminds me of a story many years ago, only the names changed to protect the guilty.
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Paddy on an overseas flight buys a can of beans. They are hugely expensive. Paddy sees a market opportunity here and goes and tests the market. He asks Seamus, an Asian shop keeper if he would like to make a killing with baked beans.
A deal is struck.
Next trip Paddy visits Seamus with 3 big cases of beans. Asks for the money
"Oh dear, oh dear, not the beans with pork sausage."
Reminds me of a story many years ago, only the names changed to protect the guilty.
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Paddy on an overseas flight buys a can of beans. They are hugely expensive. Paddy sees a market opportunity here and goes and tests the market. He asks Seamus, an Asian shop keeper if he would like to make a killing with baked beans.
A deal is struck.
Next trip Paddy visits Seamus with 3 big cases of beans. Asks for the money
"Oh dear, oh dear, not the beans with pork sausage."
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Originally Posted by onetrack
...That article about the USAF being found guilty of a conspiracy to recruit all the hot chicks, just reinforces what we always suspected!!
Alternatively, this tragedy could have been the result of an innocent prank going horribly wrong. I well remember rolling the contents of an N5 thunderflash into the foil paper liner of a cigarette packet and taping it underneath the table where our Chief of Staff (Mess Pres) sat at the Christmas lunch. I detonated it with an F77 'puffer' wired to a battery in my pocket just as he banged his gavel before delivering his annual 'state of the nation' speech whereupon he disappeared in a cloud of white smoke. The following year, he invited the guest of honour to sit in his chair.
Do you think I should inform the appropriate authorities of my suspicions?
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I wouldn't say it was tasteless, I bet it was rather tasty ham 
I wonder if they got a few beers to go with it.
I wonder if they got a few beers to go with it.
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Great spoof this.
Serious Note. USAF used to run an "Operation Christmas Drop" where they would put out a DCI (or what ever they were called in the US) in the months leading to Christmas, calling for units to make surplus airdrop kit available. they would then do a round robin dropping gifts to remote islands. I think mainly in the Far East (Philippians ??)
Not sure if this still operates. I think it was the guys at Ft Lee who co-ordinated it.
For those who cared to open the link. the smart ones will recognise the load as weapons containers. Lots of EDM. Note one of the containers poking out through the side of the harness! perhaps the containers were full of sausage!!
Serious Note. USAF used to run an "Operation Christmas Drop" where they would put out a DCI (or what ever they were called in the US) in the months leading to Christmas, calling for units to make surplus airdrop kit available. they would then do a round robin dropping gifts to remote islands. I think mainly in the Far East (Philippians ??)
Not sure if this still operates. I think it was the guys at Ft Lee who co-ordinated it.
For those who cared to open the link. the smart ones will recognise the load as weapons containers. Lots of EDM. Note one of the containers poking out through the side of the harness! perhaps the containers were full of sausage!!
I would put money on SASless having posted the link believing it was true! He is probably hiding under a desert stone, scratching around for scorpions, embarrassed to show his face again ....... poor chap! 
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RH.....I love the web site.....they do some really great work! Sadly sometimes it is awfully close to the truth!
Rarely does such post not catch a few folks off guard!
Rarely does such post not catch a few folks off guard!
So how come the Christmas Eve US coup d'etat has been kept out of the UK media? I think we should be told! Damn D Notices are at it again...
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thinks- why didn't they publish a report that AK-47s and RPGs were made my lubricating machines and all moving parts with pig fat- maybe all fighting would cease!
Worked for the sepoy rebellion!
Worked for the sepoy rebellion!