Yup, looks real to me
Someone sent us this picture and since it’s a slow news day and since I don’t feel like writing a post every five minutes about L’affaire Petraeus, shirtless FBI agents and the media chasing the Lebanese twins around hoping they’ll take their shirts off, here, this picture came from this forum;
Now, I don’t know a Marine uniform from a Navy uniform, but I do know that, with the Saudi Defense and Kuwaiti Liberation Medals, there should be a star or three on that SWAT medal. I’m pretty sure that the Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon doesn’t rank higher than a Bronze Star Medal. But you guys go ahead. And, oh, if you know where he is, we’d like to know, too. The only thing visible on that crooked-ass name plate is “Anton”
ADDED: I guess Stolen Valor can be a family activity;
November 15th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
I wish my facial hair looked that good.
I mean seriously if he put half as much effort into his uniform as he does into PMCSing that beard there’d be reason to call his medals into question.
November 15th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Love the beard. Thought the Navy did away with those in 1986, though.
And yeah, that does appear to be a SEAL Trident above the ribbons.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Looks “Navy” to me. Tan piss-cutter and some sorta device on it that isn’t the EGA.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Holy shit, where do I begin…aw, fuck it. Just take off and nuke this douchetool from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
And Hondo–it was 1/1/1985. I remember the day well. Remember one Chief who looked like he had NO lower jaw after he shaved it off and I thought to myself, “I **knew** there was a reason he liked his beard so much.”
While SEALs do let the facial hair grow out on deployment (hell, we even got to do “no shave” chits on long underways with a $10 contribution to the boat’s MWR Fund) it’s a big no-no when back in CONUS.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Nik–that’s a Naval officer crest, so he at least got that right.
But the name tag is all jacked up. Not even with the pocket, and I’m pretty fucking sure there’s no command that would allow an unauthorized emblem from a command that doesn’t even exist any longer on it.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Pretty sure there ought to be at least ONE Bronze Service Star on the SWASM (South West Asia Service Medal).
November 15th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
@5
I thought it might be, but I didn’t trust my remaining brain cells enough to be sure.
And the way his cover is sitting on his head isn’t right. It’s almost as if…well…maybe it wasn’t his or something. It’s clearly too small. It’s broke down the middle and still doesn’t cover his head right.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
ANALYSIS
Beards in the Navy = NSW DEVGRU.
Sea Service over Bronze Star = Drunk SEAL TEAM 6 Member, cut him some slack!
Top Gun Aviator Sunglasses = “Could not see in the dark and put nameplate on crooked”
Ribbon Lined up ON the pocket line = Perfection in all that he does!
Pestilent look = Killer instinct!
REAL DEAL!
END OF ANALYSIS
November 15th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
What the fuckin’ fuck???
Is that one of the Village People?
November 15th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Shouldn’t there be some daylight between his ribbon rack and the top of his pocket? Looks like it’s flush on top of it.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Master Chief–the only thing that would make this more perfect is if he was dressed in a women’s shirt and bloused his khaki pants into some bitchin lookin boots a’la Soup Sandwich.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
In the Navy (did I just say that?)… above the pocket is ALAWYS 1/4 inch! Either side and for everything … NOTHING is mounted on the thread or stitch of ANYTHING! PERIOD! FINISHED! I think I am 100% almost pretty sure on that!
November 15th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
I read these and still wonder why can’t we get someone with dolphins? What the “silent service” ain’t sexy enough? Obviously they never made it to the P.I. back in the day.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Nik–Yep…1/4 inch above the pocket.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
RM3/SS–I made it to PI…
November 15th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
@ 13 …. sshhhh … It is the Silent Service for a reason …. the posers don’t know about it … yet!
November 15th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
@14
Thought so. In the Corps, it’s 1/8″. Figured it’d be something like that in the Navy.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Did someone say PI:
1. Midget throwing.
2. Smiles at Marylines.
3. SM for 20 cents.
4. LBFM’s all over the place.
Sorry about # 1 … I should not have said Midgets, that is insensitve. I should have said “Fun Size”.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
@16, We already have plenty of posers using the plot for “The Deer Hunter” in their stories. It would be a change of pace for a poser to use the plot from “Hunt For Red October” or “U571″.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Prior Enlisted? Good Conduct? No Antons as a LT listed in NKO White Pages, but for this dude maybe I should have looked in the BLACK pages.
November 15th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Honest question from someone who doesn’t know. I get the medals are in the wrong place, the nameplate is crooked and well, he’s sporting a Justin Timberlake style beard, but my question is this.
Is it possible for things to get crooked? I mean, it’s just a pin, right. Could a nameplate become crooked and you would have to notice or be told? I honestly don’t know and am just curious. Not defending the guy but it’s tough for us civilians to grasp the detail that goes into one’s uniform. Makes me wonder why anyone would think they could pull it off…
Andy Kravetz
November 15th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
ALL AT ONCE: Attention to detail. They kick you in the nuts for months in boot camp about it. Plus a shit load of uniform inspections. That is why you always do a self check and a buddy check before manuevering.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Andy: only if he either (1) snagged it pretty hard on something while wearing it, or (2) didn’t bother to check it before putting on his shirt (or put it on while he was shitfaced). Alignment of ribbons/nametags/etc . . . is something you double-check between putting them on the shirt and putting on said shirt.
In fact, it’s really kinda tough to screw up the nametag after putting it on the same shirt a few times. The shirt gets “pick marks” where the two prongs on the nametag go through it. After a few times, getting the nametag straight on the shirt where it belongs gets pretty easy.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
@21
Possible? Yes. In the sense that World Peace is possible, but very unlikely.
These things are specifically designed NOT to become crooked.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
@ 21 Andy … NO!
Too many errors. PERIOD GUILTY AS CHARGED! Any Mil (or decent former) member would have told him about the name plate and it would have been fixed on site! The Sea Service ribbon above the BS and ribbons mounted on the pocket are DEAD give aways. This guy IS A FRAUD POSER. And even if he is, by some strange and almost impossible chance, the real deal, he should have is ass kicked by a division of recruits from Great Lakes because he is jacked up and he landed in this blog!
Any questions? I did not think so!
November 15th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
And again, I apologize if I have offended any “Fun Sized” people who read this blog!
November 15th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
@20–Prior Enlisted? Good Conduct? No Antons as a LT listed in NKO White Pages, but for this dude maybe I should have looked in the BLACK pages.
And if I look at that right, that’s a SILVER star on that GCM, meaning SIX awards, or at least 18 years of service. Yeah, I’m guessing that 18 years ago this douchetool thought girls had cooties.
Hell, he probably still thinks that.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t the proper order of precedence be:
Bronze Star, Navy & Marine Corps Achievement, Combat Action, Navy “E”, Navy Good Conduct, National Defense Service, Armed Forces Expeditionary, Southwest Asia Service, Afghanistan Campaign, Iraq Campaign, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary, Global War on Terrorism Service, Armed Forces Service, Navy Sea Service Deployment, Kuwait Liberation Ribbon (Saudi Arabia), Kuwait Liberation (Kuwait), Navy Expert Rifle Ribbon, Navy Pistol Expert Ribbon
November 15th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Ahhh Master Chief, the memories of “fun sized” LBFM’s. brings a tear to my eye. Pay my bar fine?
November 15th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
29 .. you are dastardly … you liked “midget (fun sized) LBFM’s. You Marines are always pushing the envelope of fun!
November 15th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
The guy seems to have a MRAP behind his left shoulder (rear door of RG31 SOCOM variant?), and a genuine raghead behind his right shoulder.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
It’s been awhile, but IIRC, you are only allowed to wear one set of specialty insignia, (recruiters, CO’s, etc excepted). ?
This guy has a SEAL trident above his award rack, but also has Navy parachutist wings below, and I was under the impression you only get to wear one or the other.
And yeah……. someone needs to give this clown some wall-to-wall counseling.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Only Marine here was a SUBmarine! At the Buzzard you could fit get two for one on fun sized! Adult Disneyland it was…
This is more fun than talking about posers!
November 15th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
RM3(SS)…ah, the memories…Island Girls up in Bo Baretto…one of the few bars where skimmer pukes rightly feared to tread. And free beer first night the boat was in.
It’s good having a retired submariner who ran a bar in the PI. I miss that place.
Watching a buddy of mine do an entire pitcher of Mojo and try to walk, only to realize, “Holy shit–gravity WORKS!” Via’s right across the bridge for tacos and lumpia before catching the “special” to the Barrio (or worse.)
I’m too old to do that shit now, but it was fun to get to do it when I had the chance.
November 15th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
@21- The nametag looks like one of the pins broke, but there is no excuse for the other discrepancies.
November 15th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Detour ahead…
Damn Facebook searches never disappoint…. you can’t make this shit up. https://www.facebook.com/anton.navyseal
November 15th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
@28 Yes, besides the Obvious first two, the Battle E is out of place. He has 18yrs service but no NAVCOMS? There is a Reserve Seal Team 17 in Cali. but he does not have the Reserve service ribbons.
November 15th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Gotta be legit – just look at the shades!
Once made the mistake (OK, I still don’t think it really was a mistake, but I never did it again!) of privately pointing out to a “superior” that his uniform was jacked up. He took offense. Our supervisor understood completely. but made us sit down and talk it out anyway.
What a crock!
November 15th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
I get it. He’s a Marine seal. The photo caption says “good to see a Marine here”. That explains it.
I thought the Navy gave up garrison caps in the 1970s.
November 15th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
@ Ex-PH2 … All ranks still wear the Garrison Cap … aka “Piss Cutter”
November 15th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Marines don’t wear khaki covers.
November 15th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Marines don’t wear khaki covers – EVER.
November 15th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
@ 32 … Negative. Two Warfare Devices are authorized. Para Wings are quals and treated like Warfare Device. Ah … SEALS typically wear Trident and Gold Jump Wings or just Trident because wearing Jump Wings violates the double multiple have that already redundancy rule. But chicks dig the two devices … so most SEALs wear both!
November 15th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
@ 36 … Wait … we are talking about a poser Navy SEAL named Anton … then we devolve into a cesspool of debauchery discussing ol’ PI … then you googletwit facetweet mybook whatever and come up with that … HOLY BAT SH*T … There is a God and he is a COMEDIAN!
November 15th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Found him. His name is Anton Antonov. Anyone speak Russian?
http://94.100.189.169/mail/antonovich75/_myphoto/#
November 15th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Nice try water dogs but the anton.Navyseal on FB is of Asian/Pacific Islander descent, the one above is Caucasian…
November 15th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
One comment translated is: ????))))))))))))))) ??? ??? ???))))))) translation per Google: “Fighter))))) rah rah rah)))))”
Antonovich is the posters last name…
November 15th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Even better:
November 15th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Guess that wouldn’t let me post the image. Here:
http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/antonovich75/_myphoto/i-372.jpg
November 15th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
http://94.100.189.169/mail/antonovich75/_myphoto/#
picture of this man & female….If someone will grab and post it ?
November 15th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
same photo ‘stang.lol
November 15th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
#48 Isn’t the female in the picture wearing a Trident too? Wow is that picture a Joke? There are no female SEALS right and if I remember correctly no one can wear the Trident without graduating BUDS.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
@52, not only that, she has tattoos!
They are (dare I say it?!?!?) infiltrators. The highest level of the Society of Secret Squirrels. They can’t even talk about themselves and what they do when they’re alone in the shower.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
He looks like Sean Penn preparing for his role in the remake of “Can’t Stop the Music.”
November 15th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
there is a young woman at the following link that runs with Antonovich. It appears somehow that Russia got photo’s & press releases on “Zero Dark Thirty”. I can’t get the translater software to work on the whole page, only on pictures & comments. OWB? Zero? Where’s Rurick?
http://94.100.189.169/mail/89036703286/_myphoto#
November 15th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
they are paint ball or air soft warriors
November 15th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Mustang: saved and uploaded to TAH. Your call as to whether or not to post the photo, Jonn.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Here are a couple more of her
http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/89036703286/_myphoto/i-51.jpg
http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/89036703286/_myphoto/i-66.jpg
I’d almost bet they’re some kind of actors based on their other photos.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Extras in the “Battleship II”?
November 15th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
@53 I love your post your too funny. And I thought I saw a gravy recipe you posted? Looked good.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
She’s wearing what looks like a Navy Good Conduct ribbon. Unless things have changed a LOT, officers don’t wear those.
Master Chief, HELP!!!! How did my Navy change so much? Women seals?
ONLY IN MY BOOKS.
All those images originate in Russia — the dot ru is a giveaway.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
airsoft warrior she is…http://94.100.189.169/mail/89036703286/_myphoto#
Looks like replica .45 ACP shoots 6mm plastic airsoft pellets, seen that make of airsoft pistol before can’t recall the name their made in Germany, IIRC.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
I studied Russian when I was attached to BLACK OPS during Grenda as a Boiler Technician in the Navy.
I just translated some of their narratives from their RU webs sites:
# 1. Hello my name is Anton, I am Soviet white trash, me like dressing up like military war heros. I much enjoy Navy SEALs and I am now one for you to enjoy more so much. I like men in uniform and dress up all the time and look at men in uniform and play military like men in uniform … but I am not gay!
# 2. Hello my name is Ugla, I am Soviet white trash too, like my boyfriend Anton. He calls me GI JANE and beats me often like most drunk Russian men like to do. My tattoos cover up the needle marks on my arms from much heroin I take to smoother the long cold winters here in Russia. Anton like men in uniform and spends most times in bathroom … I don’t know why he does not like sex with me … but he is not gay!
November 15th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
@60 = That was YatYas’s gravy recipe. It is so good it needs to be kept a state secret.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
OK … NO FEMALES HAVE EVER COMPLETED BUD/S EVER!
NOR WILL THEY EVER AS LONG AS I AM ALIVE!
SOME SOVIET WHITE TRASH, WITH BIG DUMP TRUCK BUTT CAN PLAY ALL DAY LONG … BUT NEVER IN A MILLION FRIGGIN’ YEARS WILL IT HAPPEN!
November 15th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Now that there was bad, MCPO. lol. I say give ‘em a pass at least they are in an odd way pretending to be US soldiers and not hating them like the mis-fits in this country does. Just saying.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
#64 I am writing a Cookbook for my family could it be shared? I can’t remember what post it was in..
#65 I know there are no female SEALS, I am just astounded that people go to such lengths to LIE or Steal Valor. I am a peace time Veteran but I feel no need to embellish or imagine service I didn’t perform. These people blow my mind. What desperate ignorant people.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
@67 – I can’t remember what post it’s in, either. Maybe we could get Jonn to start a recipe post, or something.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
I tell you. I’m tempted to say “give ‘em a pass”. They might not be SEALs or any such, but they have guts. Dressing up as US Military? In Russia? That’s gotta count for something.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
@68 Maybe he could start the Warrior’s Table Post. Some of my best recipes are from my time as a Marine and a dependent. I hate to ask him.but as military people we eat and cook some of the best food around.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
@ 66 … I know. It is just good ol’ condendushunallee protected satire! I may crack myself up more than you guys, but I enjoy ever keystroke of it!
November 15th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
marinewm86, Ex-PH2:
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=32084#comment-675519
November 15th, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Hondo-Thanks from the number of recipes on that post maybe a on going recipe post would be a great idea…
November 15th, 2012 at 6:08 pm
My Russian is still good. What needs translating? As far as I can tell, some crap about an inspection, no real captions or blurbs about him or the pictures. I agree with Sweeper and Nik, I think they are models or something.
November 15th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Copy that, Hondo.
I think a recipe post is a great idea. How many ways, for example, could a WWII housewife prepare SPAM?
November 15th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Russian actors in a movie about the US Navy? Or at least a couple of supposed-to-be members of the US Navy in a Russian made mvoie? Lovely.
November 15th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
This is one you can make in a crock pot:
Ingredients:
- 1 (pound ) brisket, trimmed
- 1 1/2teaspoon(s) coarse sea salt
- 3/4 teaspoon(s) pepper
- 1 tablespoon(s) vegetable oil
- 1 large onion, coarsely chopped
- 1 1/2tablespoon(s) garlic, minced
- 1/2 cup(s) dark beer, (such as porter or stout)
- 1 tablespoon(s) Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoon(s) lemon juice
- 3 tablespoon(s) honey
- 1/2 cup(s) ketchup
- 1 teaspoon(s) paprika
- 8 kaiser (or other sandwich ) rolls for sandwiches
________________________________________
Directions:
1. Cook the brisket: Season the brisket with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the brisket, brown on all sides, and transfer to a slow cooker.
2. Add the remaining ingredients to the slow cooker and stir well. Cook on high, covered until the meat is very tender — 8 hours. Remove the meat, place it on a cutting board, and let it rest for 15 minutes. Reserve the sauce.
3. Carve brisket into thin slices and divide it among kaiser rolls topped with reserved sauce. Serve warm, with plenty of napkins.
November 15th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
@77 I just copied and pasted that recipe. Thank You and BTW I love Spam. LOL my entire family loves it. One of the most requested items in care packages to my brothers when they were in Theater. It just grosses our mother out since she never ever cooked it when we were kids.
November 15th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
@78 — It has been rediscovered and become popular among the younger generation (not sure which one that is) because it’s cheap, storable — comes in a can – and has a variety of uses. In researching stuff, I came across a book of recipes using Spam as one of the ingredients in many recipes, from someone who grew up on Guam.
November 15th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
I have fond memories as a child of eating fried spam sandwiches.
What’s that you ask? Yes, I did grow up in the South. How’d you guess?
November 15th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
@79 and 80
My brother and I were stationed together in Hawaii we got hooked on Spam, Pineapple and Kona Coffee. We came home on leave and our grandmother who was in the Army Nurses Corps during WWII fixed us our first fried Spam sandwiches our other two brothers decided they loved them too. Our granny also made the best burgers in the world. She was a quite a woman. And proud that her oldest three grandchildren followed her into the service. But not as proud as we are of her creating a legacy of service to our country.
November 15th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
gawddamn!! y’all just made me piss myself twice! i had to put
my big-boy panties on!!
November 15th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
@76. Yep. They be Rooskies. I rather fancy her but Boy George there just doesn’t look the part.
November 15th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Hmmm. He’s kinda cute, but…
November 15th, 2012 at 7:39 pm
Remember the chaffing facial hair!
November 15th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
@83
She’s got too much ink for my tastes.
November 15th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Not an issue here! There is plenty of facial hair at this homestead. It did get a trim day before yesterday but still more than the aforementioned Roosky. My bunkmate is of the “retirement requires the growth of a beard” school. And I like it!
November 15th, 2012 at 11:36 pm
sorry, you guys got it all wrong…
it’s the Village People- trisexual duo
November 15th, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Ex PH2,
Officer who earned Good Conduct Medal’s wear ‘em.
I earned mine when you had to go four years without a conviction, so they mean more.
Open Channel D sends….
13 years enlisted (E-8), 24 years commissioned (0-5).
1975-2012. Miss it more every day.
November 16th, 2012 at 12:00 am
@89, yeah, I forgot about mustangs getting them.
November 16th, 2012 at 12:04 am
#59- that, or extras for whatever the new SyFy “Original” “movie” coming down the pipe is.
November 16th, 2012 at 1:16 am
Cease fire! unload clear and lock! obvious reenactors, movie actors or collectors here. Bandwith would be better spent hunting real dirtbags rather than hitting up every picture on the web on the assumption they are claiming service.
November 16th, 2012 at 1:57 am
@91
OH! Maybe Frankenfish II
November 16th, 2012 at 3:19 am
On warfare pins: As was said, you can wear two – one above, one below the pocket. For those super sailors who have more than two, you can sort of wear a third one as a belt buckle decoration.
On ribbon racks: They have at least a pin on either side and the bigger ones have another on top to hold them in place. They tend to stay aligned as you pin them unless you seriously snag it on something or the frog holding the pin in pops out. Depending on who you ask, they go 1/4″ above the top of the pocket flap OR 1/4″ above the stitched seam (which puts them almost touching the top of the pocket flap). Uniform regs aren’t really clear, so you’re equally liable to get chewed out either way you do it.
On good conduct medals: Theoretically possible for officers to have them if they were prior enlisted. Six is pushing it.
Parting thoughts: First fakers I can remember seeing wearing NSUs. And man, I wish our command would let me grow a beard like that.
November 16th, 2012 at 3:48 am
i think this is his facebook profile; https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004599999108
November 16th, 2012 at 8:32 am
She’s got too much ink for my tastes.
Oh, whatcha talkin bout, Nik? All the “cool” officers had full sleeve tats!
AnotherNuke–unless the requirements for LDO have changed, you can’t have more than 16 years to apply, so six GCM’s = no go.
And are you surface or sub? And if the latter, what the hell kind of uptight a-holes won’t let you grow one on OP? Does the COB have nothing better to do than stand four-section DOOW and eat ice cream in the goat locker? Oh, wait–go back aft once a week with a burnt-out flashlight and tell the nukes where they need to clean. Forgot that one.
November 16th, 2012 at 9:18 am
Yep, these posers are play acting as Navy LT’s. And very badly. Along with the issues you guys already caught (name tag askew, female with trident- NO, facial hair, ect): Their uniforms don’t fit them, their gig lines are way out of alignment. Belts are not correct size and the brass end tab is not in alignment with the buckle. Uncovered outside- a no no.
Have to admit, I love the top gun aviator glasses! :0D
November 16th, 2012 at 10:00 am
2nd photo also has cigarette in hand outside and they are clearly not in the designated smoking area (you can tell because there is no butt kit), his name tag is now aligned to the top of the pocket but it is also aligned to the left hand edge of the pocket, one has their cover to port and the other to starboard, she looks like she is wearing wash khakis and he is in the new cotton poly whatever its called. When you compare them standing side by side there is a slight difference in color or it could be that I just can’t make out the differences due to poor eyesight.
As a follow on he looks like the Aussie guy that shoveled the pig crap in the Thunderdome movie. They share the same weird haircut.
November 16th, 2012 at 10:13 am
@94- When I got out I started to grow something like that until my best friend called it “the hair around the hoo hah”.
LOL. @96, Sparky, it’s been a long time since I was in, reading your post brings back memories, or nightmares I’m not sure. my boat SSN639. Terrible “T” FTW!
November 16th, 2012 at 10:18 am
SSN-715 and SSN-647 here with a tender radcon tour in between. No Ka Oi, little Pogsters!
I feel bad for the Buffy. I did a couple of Westpacs on her and Guam SUCKED. So where did I do my tender duty? GUAM. And where is Buffy homeported now? GUAM. So close to PI, yet so far…
November 16th, 2012 at 10:30 am
OK, Sparky, so what’s wrong with Guam? Those overbuilt hotels? The yuppied-up restaurants? Living at the DaysInn? Is Jeff’s Pirate Cove no longer cool? Spill.
November 16th, 2012 at 10:42 am
I’m a Russian linguist at work 3+/3/3. I can’t access the photos, though. Work blocks them. Can someone send this crap over? I’m curious now. This is actually sort of my lane of the road.
November 16th, 2012 at 11:05 am
Oh, and nice tats, Dumptruck.
November 16th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Now I grant you, PH2, I’m going off nearly 15-year old memories here, but Jeff’s was kind of a dive then…typical Guam bar, being open air and being near the main gate (I was on Site III) it was always fun to sit and watch the cars slip and slide on the coral-based roads right after the 4:00 PM rainshower.
Nah, The Jungle down towards the airport was much better, if still an open-air dive, but at least it had a band sometimes. Then there were the strip clubs, and if you really felt like mixing it up with the Japanese tourists there were a few places in Tumon (which I hear now has a version of the Horse And Cow bar there.)
No, it was the no barracks for single people, rolling blackouts, typhoons, brown tree snakes, locals that hated white people, phone calls that ran $2/minute, rock fever (20 years ago it was $1500 r/t to the West Coast), etc., yeah, I was glad to leave after my tender tour of 2 years, 17 days, 4 hours, and 24 minutes.
Not that I was counting or anything.
November 16th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Thank you, Sparky. Going on what you said, it looks like Guam has changed a bit. Jeff’s got a good food review in the local turista guide to Guam and the yuppiefied hotels are now occupying all the good beaches except for Gun Beach, which is a national park. There seems to be a boatload of changes since the airport was expanded for tourism.
Thanks for the heads up.
November 16th, 2012 at 1:40 pm
“And are you surface or sub? And if the latter, what the hell kind of uptight a-holes won’t let you grow one on OP? Does the COB have nothing better to do than stand four-section DOOW and eat ice cream in the goat locker? Oh, wait–go back aft once a week with a burnt-out flashlight and tell the nukes where they need to clean. Forgot that one.”
Carrier out of Norfolk. We have such a variety of kinds of uptight a-holes…
November 18th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
The MRAP in the second picture looks like it had a bad day. Wonder where that picture was taken. It doesn’t LOOK shopped, but I can’t be certain.
November 18th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
“Oh, and nice tats, Dumptruck.” I don’t agree but that line sure gave me a good laugh.