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when you mix the lemon lime flavored electrolite mix from an MRE with the fruit punch flavored electrolite mix from another MRE, it tastes like skittles.

just saying.

Hey! In radio communications, why is the call and response "Do you copy?" and "Copy that" used to determine whether a message has been heard and understood??

Well, I'm glad you asked!

The phrase dates back to the early days of radio communication when Morse Code was the most common form of transmitting information. A radio operator receiving a message as...
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6 weeks.

so i'm at the gym... got my headphones on... lifting some heavy stuff... rocking out to sk8ter boi... when some random Jarhead walks up to me.

so i was all thinking: fucckkkkk... are my headphones loud enough for him to hear my Avril?

but he was all: hey dude! you're fucking famous!

and i was like: say again?

and he was like: yea dude, i...
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here's some shit on YouTube that i like.... 'cause its cool... and stuff... yeah.

Battle at Kruger - Winner of YouTube's Best Eyewitness Video.
A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park. You have to check out all eight and a half minutes of this. its so bad ass....
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my edit broke.

lame.

excerpts from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig:

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And in the fog there appears an intimation of a figure. It disappears when I look at it directly, but then reappears in the corner of my vision when I turn my glance. I am about to say something, to call to it, to recognize it, but then do not, knowing that...
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excerpts from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig:

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And in the fog there appears an intimation of a figure. It disappears when I look at it directly, but then reappears in the corner of my vision when I turn my glance. I am about to say something, to call to it, to recognize it, but then do not, knowing...
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so, while i sit here, wasting away my time on the interwebs, charlie is in the bush.. getting stronger...

heh, who am i kidding?

but this vacation shit is getting pretty weak. i'm ready to go back to work.

so i started packing my gear for our thirty day field op, the last major training we get before we go carve out our new AO...
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