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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 16, 2012, 10:00:55 PM
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Checking in from Alaska.
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We are missing you. Your name has been mentioned, and not in vain.
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Yes we do miss you! Hope your trip is going well, and thanx for the lolcat. He's cute.
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Thanks for dropping in!!
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left tit twitching! left tit twitching! :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic:
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How ya doing?
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Weather is pretty and the locals are spoiling us rotten. So far we've been treated to salmon in every conceivable concoction, moose, musk ox, caribou, homemade jams, trout, king crab and some scrawny squab. It's like their favorite local sport is: Who Feeds the Soldiers Today.
Spent the first week teach classes to the kiddies at school. Now I'm taking patients. It's been...interesting. These folks are NOT primitive by any stretch of the imagination yet there are some things we take for granted that just have not caught up with them. It's amazing how they'll describe their lives of subsistence hunting, fishing and berry-gathering when they suddenly stop in mid-sentence to check their email on their smart phones.
COOL STORY: Around 2200 local we got a call that there was a veterinary emergency on the island of Little Diomede. They have a video teleconferencing suite in each clinic (even if the clinic is nothing more than a spare room packed with med supplies). Using the VTC suite our vet was able to talk the health aides through administering IV fluids and antibiotics for a husky pup--whose sire won the Iditarod this year-- that had contracted parvo.
Rumor control said the week before we arrived another village health aide was able to insert a chest tube.
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Weather is pretty and the locals are spoiling us rotten. So far we've been treated to salmon in every conceivable concoction, moose, musk ox, caribou, homemade jams, trout, king crab and some scrawny squab ptarmigan. It's like their favorite local sport is: Who Feeds the Soldiers Today.
Just making it truthful. :cheersmate:
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Got any pictures?
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Weather is pretty and the locals are spoiling us rotten. So far we've been treated to salmon in every conceivable concoction, moose, musk ox, caribou, homemade jams, trout, king crab and some scrawny squab...
Anybody seen Ptarmigan lately? :yum: :drool:
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King Crab? Salmon???? :bawl:
Yummo! :-)
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Got any pictures?
Fine!
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9 hours of this to transit from Buckley AFB to Nome, AK.
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This part of the world doesn't feel like it has changed since Jack London wrote about it. They've maybe added a few more saloons and a Chinese restaunt but that's about it.
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The village where I'm currently located.
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King crab, caribou sausage and caribou steak. The latter was well-seasoned, including plenty of black pepper, tender and juicy. Distinctive flavor but definitely not gamey.
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The video teleconference to Little Diomede. The soldier on the right is the vet.
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There was a story about two people killed on a remote Alaskan military installation. Any insight on that ?
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There was a story about two people killed on a remote Alaskan military installation. Any insight on that ?
I haven't heard anything except what has already been reported in the MSM.
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I haven't heard anything except what has already been reported in the MSM.
For a second there I thought you meant the owebumaManiaMedia.
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What a cool adventure! :cheersmate:
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King Crab? Salmon???? :bawl:
Yummo! :-)
Bitchslapped for quoting Rachael Ray. That bitch gets on my nerves.
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Bitchslapped for quoting Rachael Ray. That bitch gets on my nerves.
Whoopsiedaisy. My bad. :thatsright:
Oh yeah, BS'd for parity. :-)
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For a second there I thought you meant the owebumaManiaMedia.
Snugs is the Bunny Media! :-)
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That pic of the teleconference just underlines the advances medical sciencehas undergone in the last 20 or so years. It's definitely leaps and bounds better than back when I was wearing the green suit in SE Asia.
Thanx for the travelogue, Sarge.
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Had caribou stew and Akutaq, a.k.a. "eskimo ice cream" today.
The Akutaq is surprisingly sweet considering it has no sugar in it; sweeter than the berry sundae topping from the Sam's Club concession. I had 3 helpings. You can sell a cup of the stuff for $5 around here but we were treated to a big bowl for free.
feel free to google Akutaq
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Had caribou stew and Akutaq, a.k.a. "eskimo ice cream" today.
The Akutaq is surprisingly sweet considering it has no sugar in it; sweeter than the berry sundae topping from the Sam's Club concession. I had 3 helpings. You can sell a cup of the stuff for $5 around here but we were treated to a big bowl for free.
feel free to google Akutaq
I have heard of it, no need to google. And yeah, I would try it.
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Are there espresso stands every five miles on the highway? That was one thing I noticed driving from Homer to Soldotna on Hwy 1. :rofl:
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When my sister was in the Navy back in late 1970s and early 1980s, she was stationed in Adak, Alaska for about a year. Yes, she really could see Russia from her house. It was really difficult because we couldn't talk to her on the phone much because it was so expensive.
Any of you ever been there? I used to worry about her a lot when she was there. She was also stationed in Okinawa.
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When my sister was in the Navy back in late 1970s and early 1980s, she was stationed in Adak, Alaska for about a year. Yes, she really could see Russia from her house. It was really difficult because we couldn't talk to her on the phone much because it was so expensive.
Any of you ever been there? I used to worry about her a lot when she was there. She was also stationed in Okinawa.
I couldn't help but comment, it's amazing how the libs can have a field day heyday with the truth.