Saturday - February 18, 2006

Black Sheep

Quote Of The Day: “she didn’t believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce.”

Winner of the Congressional Medal Of Honor and the Navy Cross not a good example? Unbelievable. Do these spoiled brats have even a remote clue what their lives would be like if not for men like “Pappy” Boyington? For one thing they’d be eating sushi and driving Japanese cars. (!) Scratch that. You know what I mean.

What, in the name of all that’s rational, gives these pampered, pusillanimous pricks the utter gall to spew out words like this: “many monuments at UW already commemorate rich white men”? For the record, Boyington was not rich and was part Sioux. These dipshits can’t even get their stories straight.

I am outraged that these spoiled brats who live in an academic ivory tower, sponging off their parents and working on a degree in some liberal arts bullshit are even allowed to speak in public, much less be a “senator” in a student body.

I call shame on the entire University of Washington. It is indeed appropriate that the school mascot is a “husky” because the student body has damned sure gone to the dogs ....

Students Reject Honor To ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ Hero

(WORLDNET DAILY)

The University of Washington’s student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus Gregory “Pappy” Boyington of “Black Sheep Squadron” fame amid concerns a military hero who shot down enemy planes was not the right kind of person to represent the school.

Student senator Jill Edwards, according to minutes of the student government’s meeting last week, said she “didn’t believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce.” Ashley Miller, another senator, argued “many monuments at UW already commemorate rich white men.”

Senate member Karl Smith amended the resolution to eliminate a clause that said Boyington “was credited with destroying 26 enemy aircraft, tying the record for most aircraft destroyed by a pilot in American Uniform,” for which he was awarded the Navy Cross.

Smith, according to the minutes, said “the resolution should commend Colonel Boyington’s service, not his killing of others.” The senate’s decision was reported first by Seattle radio talk-host Kirby Wilbur of KVI, whose listeners were “absolutely incensed,” according to producer Matt Haver. Brent Ludeman, president of the university’s College Republicans, told WND in an e-mail the decision “reflects poorly on the university.”

“Pappy Boyington went beyond the call of duty to serve and protect this country – he simply deserves better,” Ludeman said. “Just last year, the university erected a memorial to diversity. Why can’t we do the same for Pappy Boyington and others who have defended our country?”

The resolution points out Boyington, a student at the UW from 1930-34, served as a combat pilot in the 1st Squadron, American Volunteer Group – the “Flying Tigers of China” – and later as a Marine Corps combat pilot in charge of Marine Fighting Squadron 214, “The Black Sheep Squadron.” Along with the Navy Cross, Boyington was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his heroism. He was shot down and spent 20 months in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

The resolution says, “Be it resolved … [t]hat we consider Col. Gregory Boyington, United States Marine Corps, to be a prime example of the excellence that this university represents and strives to impart upon its students, and, That we desire for a memorial for Col. Boyington be commenced by the University of Washington by 11 January 2008, the twentieth anniversary of his death, which will be publicly displayed, so that all who come here in future years will know that the University of Washington produced one of this country’s bravest men, and that we as a community hold this fact in the highest esteem.”

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   Friday - December 09, 2005

Photo Du Jour

“Donkey Borne”
-by-
Spc. Mike Pryor

The Story Behind The Picture ....
October 12, 2005
MIANASHIN, Afghanistan (Army News Service)

Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, along with Afghan National Army troops, were conducting an operation in the Mianashin region north of Kandahar in early October when an airdrop of supplies fell short of its mark. Water bottles and boxes of food were strewn for hundreds of yards across the mountain and paratroopers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment spent the afternoon carrying boxes down from the ridgeline, but there were still several large loads that needed to be transported. With daylight rapidly disappearing, A Company seemed to have run out of options.

Luckily, that is when the “Donkey Man” showed up.

Spc. Daniel Boyle spotted the old man as he led a team of donkeys up a hill in the distance. Boyle realized the donkeys might be the solution to A Co’s transportation problem. He beckoned the man over and began to negotiate. They reached an agreement, and soon each donkey was loaded with a bundle of supplies and was ready to move out. Staff Sgt. Matthew Sheppard mounted the lead donkey and with a gentle jab he spurred the animal forward. “On a mission like that, you never know what situation you’re going to find yourself in. That’s why we just try to stay flexible and make the most out of whatever breaks we get,” said Shaw.

The five-day operation resulted in the detainment of three Taliban leaders and the destruction of two enemy safe houses. It began with a pre-dawn air assault into the town of Lwar Kowndalan Oct. 1. Two Chinook helicopters with an Apache gunship for support delivered the paratroopers in a clearing just outside the village. They exited the helicpoters and as the dust settled, the paratroopers could see they had landed in a graveyard.

The paratroopers moved out quickly and encircled the town by squads. Their objective was to capture several high-ranking Taliban operatives known to live in the village. After they searched several houses, three Taliban members were captured. Meanwhile, paratroopers were also on the lookout for a safe-house used by Taliban forces. After several hours, Capt. Michael Shaw, A Co. commander, decided to set up a patrol base from which to continue the search. He chose a high-walled, fortress-like compound. Ironically, soon after occupying the building, the paratroopers realized it was actually the safe-house they were looking for.

- Read the rest of what happened on Operation Donkey Tales here ....

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   Sunday - December 04, 2005

Photo Du Jour

November 29, 2005 Paratroopers from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, take cover after receiving enemy fire in Tal Afar, Iraq.

-- Photo by Pfc. James Wilt

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   Thursday - December 01, 2005

Your Daily Assignment

OK, gang! Listen up! Here is your daily assignment. Read the story below very carefully and follow the link to get the rest of the details. Feel free to take a moment to feel damned proud of our troops for doing a job that the Left says can’t be done. Then I want you to all to carefully examine the media over the next 24 hours. Check out the Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX, etc.

First, I want you to report on how many of these Liberal “journalists” actually report this story. Second, I want a report on how many of them did report it but had to add a “but” and a disclaimer from some dip-shit talking-head to play down the success of our troops. Bear in mind that this is not George Bush’s accomplishment. This is an accomplishment by our fine men and women on the ground in Iraq. Let’s see if the Left really means it when they say they are against the war and Bush’s policy but for the troops. Let’s just see ....

(- A big thanks from the Skipper to all our troops in Iraq & Afghanistan. Well done! -)

Bombings in Iraq Fall to Seven-Month Low
BAGHDAD, Iraq (MYWAY NEWS)

The U.S. military said Thursday that suicide bombings fell in November to their lowest level in seven months after joint U.S.-Iraqi operations west of the capital. In Ramadi, the U.S. military played down reports by residents and police of widespread attacks against American and Iraqi installations there, saying only one rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an observation post and there were no injuries.

An AP Television News video showed the insurgents walking down a shuttered market street and a residential neighborhood, as well as firing four mortar rounds. The masked men, however, appeared relaxed, and the U.S. command dismissed the video as little more than a publicity stunt. Also Thursday, Iraq’s interior minister fired his top official for human rights in connection with a torture investigation. Gunmen attacked Saad al-Obeidi, an adviser to Iraq’s defense minister, seriously wounding him along with two of his bodyguards, police said.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch told reporters that suicide bombings fell to 23 in November, which he attributed to successful U.S.-Iraqi military operations against insurgent strongholds in the Euphrates River valley west of the capital. “His weapon of choice is suicide bombers,” Lynch said of the insurgents. “In the month of November: only 23 suicide attacks; the lowest we’ve seen in the last seven months, the direct result of the effectiveness of our operations.”

- Read more on this story that the MSM will probably ignore

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   Monday - November 28, 2005

PULL OUT! NOW!

If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C.(among others) is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our nation’s capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq. 

Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, DC.

_{(-- thanks to sdkar)}

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   Tuesday - November 15, 2005

Senator Gives Away Pre-War Secrets

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the exchange between Chris Wallace and Senator Jay Rockefeller on Fox News Sunday.  If not, here is a portion:

WALLACE: Now, the President never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn’t it Jay Rockefeller?

SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The — I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.

Did you catch that?  The ever-brilliant Bill Bennett did.

While Democrats in Washington are berating the White House for having prewar intelligence wrong, a high-profile U.S. senator, member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, who has a name more internationally recognizable than Richard Cheney’s, tells two putative allies (Saudi Arabia and Jordan) and an enemy who is allied with Saddam Hussein (Syria) that the United States was going to war with Iraq. This is not a prewar intelligence mistake, it is a prewar intelligence giveaway.

Indeed.  Who is going to start the investigation into what exactly the good Senator told the Syrians, Jordanians and Saudis?

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   Friday - November 11, 2005

And The Guns Fell Silent …

Aftermath
(1920)

HAVE you forgotten yet?…

For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you’re a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same--and War’s a bloody game…

Have you forgotten yet?…

Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, ‘Is it all going to happen again?’
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?

Have you forgotten yet?…
Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you’ll never forget.

-- Siegfried Sassoon

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   Thursday - November 10, 2005

Gunner Palace

I don’t usually give an extra plug to the advertisers in the right sidebar. Everyone here knows the drill: click ‘em when they interest you and buy stuff you like. Every time you click and buy stuff, I get money and this blog stays on the air. Today however, I got a last minute ad submitted to run for only two days during Veterans Day holiday time slot. The ad is at the top right for a new movie called “Gunner Palace” that was released this last summer (somehow I missed hearing about it). It’s now available on DVD. I was naturally intrigued by the lateness of the ad and just had to check out the content (I buy a lot of stuff from those ads myself - in fact, I’m currently reading Michael Crichton’s “State Of Fear” which I bought from one of the other ads - it’s a humdinger of a suspense novel that trashes the whole enviro-whacko movement - try it you’ll like it).

But I digress. I just clicked on the ad for the movie and took a look at the trailers for “Gunner Palace”. This is one I will have to see. If anyone beats me to it, I’d really appreciate your sending me a review of the movie. I’ll post it here. Meanwhile, go click on the ad and view the trailers. I think this is the war movie that we’ve all been waiting for. The DVD is available from Amazon ....

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   Monday - November 07, 2005

Keeping Faith

The 230th Marine Corps Birthday Ball
Saturday, November 5, 2005

Corporal Jim: Eight terrorists ambushed him in Fallujah as he was doing house-to-house search.. After being wounded, he got five with a grenade, then shot another before he lost consciousness.  His buddies finished the job for him. He has a titanium repaired jaw, part of his tongue gone, and wounds in five other places.  He’s ready to go back on active duty after his next three surgeries.  He walks tall and proud and looks strong. The puckered skin in the corner of his mouth makes him look better. 

Sgt. Mary: is dignified and serious. She wears her Purple Heart well. Her fellow Marines rocked the room with OOH-RAHS when she stood to be honored.

Staff Sgt. (Ret’d) Don: (a friend of mine) bears the distinction and honor of being called “A Crazy MoFo”.  You want him next to you in combat, but want to avoid him whilst out in town on Liberty.  He’s been up and down the ranks more than once. He says he made Sergeant in Korea, Corporal in Japan, and Private in San Francisco.  He has five Purple Hearts and two Silver Stars— I kid him that the second Silver Star was awarded during a recess in his General Courts Martial. In Vietnam, his squad captured a huge North Vietnamese artillery piece—the biggest in the war. They heard it fire, spotted it in a clearing, and charged while the crew was reloading. The reporter from “Stars & Stripes” asked him what went thru his mind when he first saw that enormous piece, and the crew spotted him and his squad? “Jesus H. CHRIST! I hope they don’t fire that motherf-----!” That quote didn’t make the newspaper.

Gunny (Gunnery Sergeant) Jim (Ret’d):  would have liked to have stayed in the Corps past his Twenty (years), but Jimmy “Blowjobs For Dictators” Carter decided to Give Peace A Chance, and started big military cutbacks.  Jim says he has ten kids. He still counts the one that died at age five.

Lance Corporal Ted: was waiting outside the women’s room holding a pair of gold glitter high heels.  I complimented him on how well they matched his Dress Blues.  He complimented me on how well the purse I was holding matched my eyes. I demonstrated how a Real Man carries his wife’s purse.  I asked him if he had yet purchased Feminine Hygiene supplies?  No, but he’s only engaged, not married.

Corporal Tom: was one of the first black men allowed to join the Marines in 1942.  We agreed that it was not due to a sudden guilty change of heart by the U.S. Government. He loves his Country and The Corps.

Lieutenant Colonel Jane: introduced herself, again, same as last year, “Hi, I’m Jane”. Yes, Ma’am, I ain’t never called a Marine Officer by her/his first name yet, and I ain’t gonna start today.

Frank Schaeffer (not a veteran) was our speaker. He was “a successful novelist living in “Volvo-driving, higher-education-worshipping” Massachusetts. He had a son who graduated from Georgetown and a daughter who graduated from New York University. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, decided to join the U.S. Marine Corps.” Parents visiting the private school administration wanted to know what they had done wrong. Read his book: “Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps”.

There was, of course, the traditional “Cockroach Dance” —done to the tune of “Wipeout”—Surfaris, 1962 . Male Marines only—and for good reason.  You get in a large circle, dance / clap your hands, then when the staccato drum solo starts, everyone flops on his back and kicks his legs in the air like a overturned cockroach.  The DJ pronounced it the coolest thing he’d ever seen.

Our speaker said the Marine Corps is “the Bank” where values of Duty, Honor, Country are saved and preserved during times like ours.  I remembered how the monasteries copied and preserved the works of Western Civilization during the Dark Ages.

Some of us older guys were the worse for wear and age.  Everyone stood at Attention tall and proud during the presenting of the Colors, the National Anthem, and The Marine Corps Hymn.

Each group of Marines from different Wars (NOT conflicts NOT police actions) were asked to stand and be honored.  And they were honored.  There were only three from WW2.

There was single table and chair, left empty, for those who have gone before. When I was in The Corps, Sergeants didn’t hug each other.  Our loss.

Most people rented rooms at the hotel where the Birthday Bash was held.  Just as well, because I saw a lot of foolin’ around on the dance floor during the slow numbers.  Only the brave deserve the fair.

Presidents had better think long and hard before sending these men and women to die.  “Getting Wasted” (greased, blown away, KIA) had damn well better remain a metaphor.

I cried, but I feel ever so much better.  I always do, this time of year. Where do we get men like these?  How do we deserve women like these? 

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   Saturday - October 22, 2005

Quote Of The Day

“We decided to burn the bodies because they were bloated and they stank.”
-- A US Soldier in Afghanistan after Taliban corpses were destroyed last week

“In that case, let’s apply the napalm to Teddy Kennedy and Michael Moore too.”
-- The Skipper

Stench Prompted U.S. Troops to Burn Corpses
The desecration of Taliban dead prompts outrage in Afghanistan
(TIME)

There simply wasn’t enough room on the rocky hilltop above Gonbaz village in southern Afghanistan for the U.S. platoon and the corpses of the two Taliban fighters. The Taliban men had been killed in a firefight 24 hours earlier, and in the 90 degree heat, their bodies had become an unbearable presence, soldiers who were present have told TIME. Nor was the U.S. Army unit about to leave — the hilltop commanded a strategic view of the village below where other Taliban were suspected to be hiding.

Earlier, Lt. Eric Nelson, the leader of B Company, I-508 platoon leader had sent word down to Gonbaz asking the villagers to pick up the bodies and bury them according to Muslim ritual. But the villagers refused — probably because the dead fighters weren’t locals but Pakistanis, surmised one U.S. army officer.

It was then that Lt. Nelson took the decision that could jeopardize his service career. “We decided to burn the bodies,” one soldier recounts, “because they were bloated and they stank.” News of this cremation may have remained on these scorching hills of southern Afghanistan, had the gruesome act not been recorded on film by an Australian photojournalist, Stephen Dupont. Instead, when the footage aired on Australian TV on Wednesday, it unleashed world outrage. A Pentagon spokesman described the incident as “repugnant” and said that the army was launching a criminal investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in violation of the Geneva Convention on human rights.

Fueling the furor was the fact that the TV report showed that after the bodies were torched, a U.S. Psychological-Operations team descended on Gonbaz in Humvees with their loudspeakers booming: “Taliban, you are cowardly dogs. You are too scared to come down and retrieve the bodies. This just proves you are the lady-boys we always believed you to be.”

- Go Read The Rest Of The Story Here

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   Friday - October 14, 2005

Band Of Brothers Unit Reactivated

OK, it’s time for the latest generation to step up and show us what they’re made of. It is a proud name to carry. I’m sure all of them will live up to the unit’s reputation. They always do ....

Historic Unit Reactivated for Iraq Mission
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP)

The 101st Airborne Division on Thursday reactivated a historic unit whose actions during World War II were the subject of the book “Band of Brothers.” The 506th Regimental Combat Team—also known as the “Currahees,” a Cherokee Indian word meaning “stands alone”—returned to the division just as its soldiers were completing final preparations to return to Iraq.

“Our Currahees have trained hard and are ready to join their brothers,” Col. Thomas Vail, said as the unit’s 3,500 soldiers stood behind him. “They are ready to sacrifice their personal comfort and safety to answer a call to duty.” The reactivation is part of the 101st Airborne Division’s recent expansion from three to four brigade combat teams under a Pentagon plan to reorganize the Army into smaller, easily deployable units.

The unit—then called the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment—was among the first to land in Normandy during World War II. The Army deactivated and reactivated the unit several times, sending its soldiers to Korea and Vietnam, where the unit was critical to winning the battles on Hamburger Hill. First Sgt. Edward Lawrence, the brigade’s rear detachment commander, said the reactivation brings instant identity to a brigade whose current members have yet to be tested.

“It gives these young soldiers the history that they know about. It gives them something to base all further accomplishments on,” he said. While long famous for its missions inside the military, little was known about the unit until Stephen E. Ambrose published “Band of Brothers” in 2001. The book was later adapted for an HBO miniseries.

Veterans attending the reactivation ceremony applauded when the brigade accepted the 506th flag. “The unit’s colors stay alive,” said Brice Bickerton, of Clairton, Pa., a Vietnam veteran from the unit. The deployment to Iraq later this fall will be the division’s second; more than 60 soldiers based at Fort Campbell have died in the war.

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   Wednesday - October 12, 2005

Remember the Cole

Today is the fifth anniversary of the U.S.S. Cole bombing.

Stars and Stripes pays tribute to the 17 sailors killed in the terrorist attack, the dozens wounded, the survivors, and the families affected. Command Master Chief James Parlier will never forget the decision he was forced to make in leaving a mortally wounded sailor to die:

“That’s the first time in my Navy career that I had to let someone die, so I did,” Parlier said. “I made the call. I said last rites. I said a prayer and then we put him on the side somewhere so he wouldn’t be in a position where he was dying in front of the crew and demoralizing the crew.”
What did demoralize the crew was Yemenis celebrating the attack in view of Cole crewmembers for a couple of nights following the attack, Parlier said. They felt the Cole was their trophy, he said.

“Boy, that sticks [with me], seeing all these guys in white outfits jumping up and down, partying music blaring,” he said.

For the Cole’s sailors, it was tough not to retaliate, he said.

The Cole incident was one of a series of terrorist attacks in the 1990s that were not adequately answered by the United States, said Marc Genest, an associate professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War College.

“Measured responses against terrorist organizations are seen as a sign of weakness, not strength,” he said.

Genest said the overall lesson from the Cole is that not responding to terrorists’ attacks only emboldens them.

“The time to attack terrorists is at the very beginning of their strategy,” he said.

^{(via Michelle Malkin)}

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   Tuesday - October 04, 2005

Obituary

He was the last surviving member of the crew of the “Memphis Belle”. The generation that defined courage in the 20th Century ....

Robert Hanson (1920-2005)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)

Robert Hanson, the last surviving crew member of the famed Memphis Belle B-17 bomber that flew combat missions over Europe during World War II, died Saturday of congestive heart failure. He was 85 and had suffered from heart problems, family members said.

Hanson was the radio operator on the Memphis Belle, which flew 25 combat missions over Germany and France while escaping some close calls. Hanson told his family stories about a chase involving several German planes, the bomber’s tail being shot off and a nose dive that left the crew wondering if they should use their parachutes.

Hanson, who was from Walla Walla, Wash., joined the military in 1941 and was assigned to the crew of the Memphis Belle. The bomber flew to England in September 1942 and departed on its first mission in November. Army records show the plane flew 148 hours and dropped more than 60 tons of bombs.

Hanson and the crew finished their 25th mission on May 17, 1943. He went on to work as a salesman for Nalley Fine Foods in Walla Walla and became a regional manager. He later worked for a candy company in Spokane, Wash.

The adventures of the Belle were brought back to life by a 1990 film, “Memphis Belle,” that told a fictionalized version of the bomber’s final mission.

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   Thursday - September 29, 2005

Yo’ Momma’s Combat Boots

In a time-honored tradition, dating back thousands of years, the Greek army did what armies always do when they’re not fighting. My favorite quote from the story below: “the woman went happily through the ranks from lowly privates to the officers in charge”. Now that’s a real trooper! OOH-RAH!

Cypriot Soldiers Disciplined for Sex Party on Green Line
NICOSIA (AFP)

Greek Cypriot soldiers involved in a wild sex party at a guard post on the divided Mediterranean islands Green Line were banished to remote corners of the country as punishment. Politics daily said up to 10 army recruits were involved in an all-night romp in the Nicosia sector of the no-man’s land with a mother-of-three who had them queuing up for more.

“The soldiers formed an orderly line outside the room waiting to have sex one-by-one. At one point two soldiers came along to serve food, even they didnt leave unsatisfied,” it said.

Although the woman happily went through the ranks, from lowly privates to the officer in charge, military top brass frowned on her escapades.

The troops were undone when one of the participants decided to capture the moment with his mobile phone and forwarded the video images to fellow recruits. Army chiefs got wind of what was going on and an internal inquiry was launched.

Those involved were disciplined and had time added on to their length of service, which is 24 months for conscripts, Politis said. The Greek Cypriot national guard declined to comment on the report.

Cyprus has been divided into Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot sectors since 1974, when Turkish troops seized its northern third in response to an Athens-engineered Greek Cypriot coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece.

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4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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