Re: Beer crates, again...

At 11:00 AM -0700 7/30/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>Monteith is a camp in Kosovo outside Gjilane.	It's
>named after 1st LT Jimmie Monteith, a platoon leader

Wow. There aren't that many Monteiths (ieths) out there. I wonder if 
he was a relative of grandpa Montieth. I'd ask my mom to look into it 
as she was the family geneologist, but she can't do that any 
more....:-/

>
>Ummm. . . there's 70,000 troops at Fort Hood.	I know
>a couple hundred somewhat and maybe a 100 reasonably
>well.	Maybe 8-9 of those I know by their first name.
>And no chemmo pukes are on that list.
>

Heh....Some times small world syndrome does hit. It sometimes pays to 
ask. I met a kid in a cafe here in Atlanta that was in town for a few 
hours with his other Japanese friends. Turns out, he was from the 
same neighborhood that I was living in for about 2 months in Japan 
back in '87. He even knew my host family.

>The turban cannot be worn under a kevlar helmet, and
>the beard makes it impossible to correctly wear a
>protective mask.

Granted. I think the Sepoys were less concerned about it back in the 
'40s and before. Head protection being a relatively recent innovation 
back during the great war. Still, they omitted the concerns of the 
use of the respirators for WWII. I've a few pictures of Indian troops 
with full beards and such in the desert fighting in North Africa or 
in the east.

>
>Eh?

Back at some point a story came out that pagans were worshiping in a 
field around a bon fire at Fort Hood or some other base out west. Bob 
Barr thinking he could single out a segment for some good old 
politically driven bashing, started making statements about pagan's 
not deserving to be in the military due to our nation's Christian 
foundation.

http://www.witchvox.com/xmilitary.html

He thought he had an easy target. He was very wrong. The tempest 
eventually died down. I'm just wondering how it's changed. I'm 
curious as I have more than a few pagan friends.

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