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Man, you guys are bumming me out. There were times when I was in that I thought we had some petty stupid rules but man the Spang and McGuire guys take the cake in the stupid petty rules category. I'd wear what I want and wait to see how hot it got. We used to wear Red/Green SAC patches during the month of December. Guard and other non-approved patches anytime we went TDY and sometimes when I was home station just for fun. On alert we had all kinds of (unofficial, rude and sometimes crude) patches we would wear for the week. I wish the SQ CCs would man up as well and tell the boss he is full of crap (diplomatically of course).

Man was that a good game today or what? Germany vs. Turkey.

As much as I love soccer, I'll agree with your statement HerkBum. I do wish they would throw more cards at those pansies faking injury all of the time. In Asia we didn't have as much of that crap as they seem to have in South America, Italy and Spain. Not sure what is up with that other than they think they will get away with it (which they seem to) and gain a competitive advantage. The refs are supposed to watch for that and penalize when they dive!!

Anybody else watching and enjoying the soccer currently being shown on ESPN? I grew up in Pakistan and Taiwan so played soccer my whole life and really love it when we get some good soccer on ESPN. I personally think Croatia was screwed with the extra time in their game/match against Turkey. But how can you not be excited about Turkey and their 3 come from behind victories so far. If you like soccer you've no doubt enjoyed some great soccer so far!

I know this is kind of an old topic but here's a quick story from 1991. One of the guys I was stationed with in Plattsburgh and temporarily assigned to the 1703 ARW during Gulf War I decided to grow a mustache while he was deployed. I think he got to the desert in late August and by the time I showed up in early January (the next year) he had a huge push-broom just above his mouth. That stache was the biggest, thickest stache I have ever seen in person. It was huge and made Gen. Old's mustache look like a milk mustache. Whenever Fitz walked into a building everyone would just stop what they were doing and stare. It was classic and our SQ/CC let him keep it until we rotated home (he had to shave it before he reported to duty after getting back home). Our wing commander was less than impressed when we rotated home and one of his pilots jumped out of the airplane looking like Artur Jorge. (I was going to post a picture of Artur but couldn't get it to load right). Fitz had more hair but the mustache was pretty similar.