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Item 174: Rumsfeld force projection

Entered by pvn on Sun Aug 24 04:44:36 2003:

Got me to thinking, why not?  Why have the equvalent of multiple
divisions of US troops deployed for such things as feeding the troops?
Instead of subcontracting out such to Wendy's or McDonalds?  I mean
perhaps fast food diet isn't the best, but it would sure and beat MREs.
28 responses total.
#1 of 28 by rcurl on Sun Aug 24 06:26:07 2003:

Why not contract with the Iraqis to cater for our forces?

#2 of 28 by sj2 on Sun Aug 24 09:46:51 2003:

You would get bombs for burgers!!

#3 of 28 by tod on Sun Aug 24 13:54:00 2003:

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#4 of 28 by rcurl on Sun Aug 24 21:03:14 2003:

Re #2: we could also employ Iraqi tasters.....they need more jobs in Iraq.

#5 of 28 by scott on Mon Aug 25 01:43:36 2003:

More jobs every week, it seems, since there's an article in the paper today
about the US hiring former Iraqui secret police to help track down terrorists
within the country.

#6 of 28 by pvn on Mon Aug 25 04:46:25 2003:

Who better to?

#7 of 28 by sj2 on Mon Aug 25 10:24:28 2003:

I thought Iraqi Secret police were by default members of the former 
Baath party. And Baath party members were strictly being kepy away 
from holding any positions in the new administration.

#8 of 28 by eprom on Mon Aug 25 16:26:57 2003:

MRE's are awsome (with the exception of chicken ala king). My fav is the Lemon
pound cake loaf in the newer MRE's.

#9 of 28 by tod on Mon Aug 25 17:38:28 2003:

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#10 of 28 by mvpel on Thu Aug 28 00:20:42 2003:

I gather that one of the fun things to do with MRE heaters is to insert them
into 2 liter soda bottles along with some water and cayenne pepper, and roll
them into officers' tents.

#11 of 28 by happyboy on Thu Aug 28 02:02:39 2003:

it scares me that you have guns, walter.

#12 of 28 by janc on Sun Aug 31 02:26:22 2003:

Sorry, Wendy's and McDonald's don't have contracts pre-negotiated with the
Army, so have a nice tasty Halliburger, soldier.

Hey, I'm not complaining.  I'm a stockholder.  Too bad Bechtel's privately
held.  (Though why exactly I should be profiting from the war, I don't know.)

#13 of 28 by eprom on Sun Aug 31 02:31:59 2003:

I think Burger King has some sort of contract with AAFES (Army Air Force
Exchange service), every base I've been to has a BK somewhere on base/post.

#14 of 28 by gelinas on Sun Aug 31 02:45:44 2003:

Still?  That contract was first awarded circa 1984.

#15 of 28 by tod on Sun Aug 31 14:42:25 2003:

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#16 of 28 by goose on Sun Aug 31 20:15:48 2003:

Do they wrap that whopper in camo paper?

#17 of 28 by tod on Mon Sep 1 14:59:03 2003:

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#18 of 28 by dah on Tue Sep 2 06:12:05 2003:

Why is it that so many Grexists are all like SANS PERSONALITY?


I mean, GEEZ.  ,  nearly every M-Netter I know has a different personality
than his/er respective brethren, but here it's all the same, for mostly. 
bland, w/ chunksmsg.

#19 of 28 by sno on Tue Sep 2 15:50:33 2003:

Its hard to look unique in ascii.  I, however, look just like I type.

.[A

#20 of 28 by tod on Tue Sep 2 16:27:23 2003:

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#21 of 28 by jaklumen on Tue Sep 2 23:01:17 2003:

If he does, can I change mine to Bootsy Collins II?

Oh wait, that might not have enough personality for him.

#22 of 28 by dah on Wed Sep 3 00:22:05 2003:

I didn't say anything about looks, Sno.

#23 of 28 by sno on Wed Sep 3 00:33:47 2003:

Thank god for that.  I'm not that pretty.

#24 of 28 by dah on Wed Sep 3 01:07:19 2003:

See?  You're not even a person.

#25 of 28 by other on Tue Sep 9 03:31:49 2003:

I walked past Bootsy Collins in the parking lot behind the Fox Theatre 
one night as I was on my way in to work the load-out of a George Clinton 
show.  He was one freaky lookin' mutha.  Wildest afro I ever did see, 
sparkly cape, and Elton John-like bigbooties that made him look about 
seven feet tall.

#26 of 28 by jaklumen on Tue Sep 9 23:44:59 2003:

I'm envious.  Really cool, man.

#27 of 28 by other on Wed Sep 10 00:52:35 2003:

At the time, I didn't have a clue who he was.

#28 of 28 by jaklumen on Wed Sep 10 05:24:25 2003:

Interesting.

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