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Re: In other news ...
« Reply #784 on: November 20, 2020, 01:26:37 PM »
The Marine Corps (with an S) is still in the Department of the Navy.

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« Reply #785 on: November 20, 2020, 02:31:18 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on November 20, 2020, 01:24:44 PM
The Coast Guard is the Vanderbilt of the armed forces, no?  Yeah, you're in the group, but just because.
I know a lot of guys who are in the USCG. If you think it's easy, go ahead and sign up.
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« Reply #786 on: November 20, 2020, 02:48:19 PM »
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« Reply #787 on: November 20, 2020, 07:59:01 PM »
Saw this in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today. This is a direct quote from the president of the University of Wisconsin system (Tommy Thompson, former governor and Secretary of the Health and Human Services, I think, under W. Bush):

"You go to the university to learn, but you also go to the university to grow up. You go there to have fun, you go there to watch football, you go there to drink beer, to have a cup of coffee, to study and learn."

Let's take a moment to thank the system president for plainly stating that one of the reasons to go the University of Wisconsin is to drink beer.

It's just about 5pm here. Time for me to have a cocktail.

On Wisconsin.
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« Reply #788 on: November 20, 2020, 10:21:37 PM »
Quote from: NorthernOhioBuckeye on November 20, 2020, 12:32:01 PM
I was going to post that the A Bombs were weapons employed by the Air Force but then remembered that the Air Force didn't come into being until 1947. Being as the Air Corps was actually part of the Army during WWII and specifically 1945 when the 2 A Bombs were deployed, you are correct.
Ever since the Air Force came into existence as a separate service, we've had trouble winning serious wars.  The U.S. Army Air Forces were the greatest aerial weapon--relative to the first-rate competition it faced--of any air arm in history.
And the greatest amphibious invasion in history--Operation Overlord--was an Army-Navy thing too.  No need for any other services.
If it hadn't been for Belleau Wood, we might not have a U.S. Marine Corps today.  There were more soldiers than marines in that fight, but somehow the only story that got told to the American people was about the "Devil Dog" marines there.  And the whole "Teufel Hunden" story was fabricated too.
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« Reply #789 on: November 20, 2020, 10:26:49 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on November 20, 2020, 01:24:44 PM
The Coast Guard is the Vanderbilt of the armed forces, no?  Yeah, you're in the group, but just because.
The sharpest cadet I taught at West Point was a Coast Guard Academy exchange student.
The USCG used to be under Dept. of the Treasury control during peacetime (revenue cutters were a big thing) and Dept. of the Navy during wartime.
I think that their peacetime home these days is Dept. of Homeland Security.
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« Reply #790 on: November 20, 2020, 10:32:13 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 20, 2020, 01:26:37 PM
The Marine Corps (with an S) is still in the Department of the Navy.
As the Space Force <rollseyes> is under the Department of the Air Force.
The Army's outnumbered.
And administrative authority is split six ways (if you count the USCG) under three different sub-cabinet departments and a different cabinet department altogether during peacetime.
It's really something of a mess.  It's no wonder that we can't get to the bottom of who contracted for $300 hammers and $600 toilet seats.
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« Reply #791 on: November 20, 2020, 10:33:22 PM »
If you're at all familiar w Tommy Thompson, like I am, you find this quote so befitting Thompson.  I can hear him yelling it out loud with his , , 'dems and 'dohs.  Many a time have been in his presence while he was Gov. and he's been doing the same. 

A quintessential Wisconsin ambassador. 
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« Reply #792 on: November 20, 2020, 10:41:21 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on November 20, 2020, 07:59:01 PM
Saw this in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today. This is a direct quote from the president of the University of Wisconsin system (Tommy Thompson, former governor and Secretary of the Health and Human Services, I think, under W. Bush):

"You go to the university to learn, but you also go to the university to grow up. You go there to have fun, you go there to watch football, you go there to drink beer, to have a cup of coffee, to study and learn."

Let's take a moment to thank the system president for plainly stating that one of the reasons to go the University of Wisconsin is to drink beer.

It's just about 5pm here. Time for me to have a cocktail.

On Wisconsin.

I mean, I sure as hell did. I didn't even know I would drink when I committed, but I figured it out soon enough.

I think that's a nice way to look at college, but one that isn't always the best. 
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« Reply #793 on: November 20, 2020, 11:45:18 PM »
worked for me at UNL
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« Reply #794 on: November 21, 2020, 02:18:34 AM »
I met Tommy a couple of times, once at a tailgate in Milwaukee, and once at his birthday party in Madison. He likes his beer as much as the next Badger. He's definitely one of the fellas. But also smart, and a good person (though I rarely agreed with his politics).

So yeah, this was a very Tommy Thompson comment, but I still enjoyed it. :-)
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« Reply #795 on: November 21, 2020, 03:17:34 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on November 20, 2020, 02:31:18 PM
I know a lot of guys who are in the USCG. If you think it's easy, go ahead and sign up.
Sigh.
Didn't say it was easy.  
I also doubt it's easy to be a Vandy football player.   


Thanks for misconstruing.  Weird hobby.
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« Reply #796 on: November 21, 2020, 06:17:42 AM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on November 20, 2020, 07:59:01 PM
Saw this in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today. This is a direct quote from the president of the University of Wisconsin system (Tommy Thompson, former governor and Secretary of the Health and Human Services, I think, under W. Bush):

"You go to the university to learn, but you also go to the university to grow up. You go there to have fun, you go there to watch football, you go there to drink beer, to have a cup of coffee, to study and learn."

Let's take a moment to thank the system president for plainly stating that one of the reasons to go the University of Wisconsin is to drink beer.

It's just about 5pm here. Time for me to have a cocktail.

On Wisconsin.

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« Reply #797 on: November 21, 2020, 07:19:44 AM »
In Europe, about 35% of HS grads go to college.  Here the figure is almost double that.

I think some of this is that our HS system is not as rigorous for that top third, and kids go to college to catch up on whatever they failed to learn in HS.

Another thing about college in Europe, you basically take ONLY courses in your major, you don't take English and history and liberal arts if you are a science major.  So, they get a more extensive study in the field of choice undiluted if you will by those make up courses.  They are assumed to have learned a foreign language in HS, and their own language, and history, etc., so they come out of college with a more extensive knowledge in their field of study.

We here have made college an egalitarian "experience" with kids below the mean in academic achievement attending.
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