Comments on: Screw Ups http://olbroad.com/2009/12/01/screw-ups/ Politics, humor, moonbat bashing, charter member of the vast right wing conspiracy. Sat, 26 May 2012 06:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: olbroad http://olbroad.com/2009/12/01/screw-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-19840 olbroad Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:18:59 +0000 http://olbroad.com/?p=26516#comment-19840 <p>Granted, it has gotten a bit quicker.  I remember those letters to and from Vietnam seeming to take forever!  But I think you're right, not much has changed since waaaaaaay back when.  Heh.</p> <p>Gracious sakes.  That's who they're ogling these days, eh?  Well, that's not Raquel Welch, or Betty Grable, but I reckon it'll do for today's young whipper snappers.  Heh.</p> Granted, it has gotten a bit quicker.  I remember those letters to and from Vietnam seeming to take forever!  But I think you’re right, not much has changed since waaaaaaay back when.  Heh.

Gracious sakes.  That’s who they’re ogling these days, eh?  Well, that’s not Raquel Welch, or Betty Grable, but I reckon it’ll do for today’s young whipper snappers.  Heh.

]]> By: Inbred Redneck http://olbroad.com/2009/12/01/screw-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-19839 Inbred Redneck Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:14:57 +0000 http://olbroad.com/?p=26516#comment-19839 I guess I'll expect mail delivery to improve about the same time the chow improves, or the goldbricks, or the Second Lts., or.......... Bet it was the same for the Roman Legions. I do know that now my son-in-law gets his packages in a week to ten days at his base in Afghanistan. Guess it's about time to order him a calendar from Gina Elise at www.pinupsforvets.com so he'll have it for next year. Too bad he has to settle for the calendar, though, as we got visits from Bob Hope, Ann Margaret and the like. Ah, the good ol' days. I guess I’ll expect mail delivery to improve about the same time the chow improves, or the goldbricks, or the Second Lts., or……….
Bet it was the same for the Roman Legions.
I do know that now my son-in-law gets his packages in a week to ten days at his base in Afghanistan. Guess it’s about time to order him a calendar from Gina Elise at http://www.pinupsforvets.com so he’ll have it for next year. Too bad he has to settle for the calendar, though, as we got visits from Bob Hope, Ann Margaret and the like. Ah, the good ol’ days.

]]> By: olbroad http://olbroad.com/2009/12/01/screw-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-19836 olbroad Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:33:15 +0000 http://olbroad.com/?p=26516#comment-19836 <p>Jeeez.  Some females...  sigh...</p> <p>Anyways...  You'd think that after all this time, there would have been some improvements on the mail delivery.</p> <p> </p> Jeeez.  Some females…  sigh…

Anyways…  You’d think that after all this time, there would have been some improvements on the mail delivery.

 

]]> By: Inbred Redneck http://olbroad.com/2009/12/01/screw-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-19835 Inbred Redneck Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:17:18 +0000 http://olbroad.com/?p=26516#comment-19835 Sorry to get to this discussion this late, but  it sounds as thought this letter was handled by an Army postal clerk. The US Post Office turns mail to the APO/FPO system and the branches handle it from there. I'm sorry for the worry and shock the mother suffered, but if her lawyer (sounds like a money-grubbing idiot to me) was too dumb to even figure out how the mail was handled, he ought to ask for his money back from the schools that let him graduate without even teaching the fool how to do basic research. Anybody who's been in the military knows how screwed up the APO is. The girl to whom I was engaged in '68 sent me a Dear John letter, but by the time it got to my unit I'd been wounded and sent to Vung Tau. It didn't get to the hospital there 'til I'd alreaady been evacuated to 106th GenHosp in Japan. Even with the 2-1/2 weeks I was there, I out-raced it to Okinawa. Of course, in the meantime I'd called her collect from Tachikawa Air Base when we first got to Japan, so it cost her 150 bucks to tell me on the phone what was in the letter that reached me about 2 months after she sent it. Rob J       Sorry to get to this discussion this late, but  it sounds as thought this letter was handled by an Army postal clerk. The US Post Office turns mail to the APO/FPO system and the branches handle it from there. I’m sorry for the worry and shock the mother suffered, but if her lawyer (sounds like a money-grubbing idiot to me) was too dumb to even figure out how the mail was handled, he ought to ask for his money back from the schools that let him graduate without even teaching the fool how to do basic research.
Anybody who’s been in the military knows how screwed up the APO is. The girl to whom I was engaged in ’68 sent me a Dear John letter, but by the time it got to my unit I’d been wounded and sent to Vung Tau. It didn’t get to the hospital there ’til I’d alreaady been evacuated to 106th GenHosp in Japan. Even with the 2-1/2 weeks I was there, I out-raced it to Okinawa. Of course, in the meantime I’d called her collect from Tachikawa Air Base when we first got to Japan, so it cost her 150 bucks to tell me on the phone what was in the letter that reached me about 2 months after she sent it.
Rob J
 
 
 

]]> By: Shadowblitz70 http://olbroad.com/2009/12/01/screw-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-19730 Shadowblitz70 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:44:58 +0000 http://olbroad.com/?p=26516#comment-19730 I understand its troubling, but actually worth SUING over? Hardly. But like you said, a high ranking officer showing up at the door to personally apologize would go a long way. I understand its troubling, but actually worth SUING over?
Hardly. But like you said, a high ranking officer showing up at the door to personally apologize would go a long way.

]]> By: jim spice http://olbroad.com/2009/12/01/screw-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-19727 jim spice Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:28:59 +0000 http://olbroad.com/?p=26516#comment-19727 Another one we agree on. By the way, same thing happened in my family as yours. My dad's brother was reported as KIA in WWII then just walked in the door. It was a dog tag mix-up in the chaos of war. Another one we agree on. By the way, same thing happened in my family as yours. My dad’s brother was reported as KIA in WWII then just walked in the door. It was a dog tag mix-up in the chaos of war.

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