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Google Query of the Year

By lex, on January 9th, 2009

From the ivied parapets at UT Austin, came this traffic:

do chicks dig the navy uniform

OK, I admit, the year is very young. But the answer is yes. Yes they do. Preferably on the floor.

The tidy ones like it folded.

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January 9th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Small Stuff

57 comments to Google Query of the Year

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  • Quartermaster
    January 11, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    The Coasties have the oldest continuous service. Both Navy and Army, for all practical purposes, ceased to exist after the war for independence ended.

    The Army was raised before the Navy, much as it pains this ex-squid to admit. Since I am a Grandpa, I have no qualms about challenging another. The Navy will just have to happy with the CIC’s Trophy.

  • AW1 Tim
    January 11, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    Umm,

    Not so fast there, QM..

    The Coast Guard was actually a sort of here & there service, to wit:
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    From: American Military Equipage, 1851-1872, by Frederick P. Todd. Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, 1974

    PP 551, paras 1&2

    The commencement of our period found the Revenue-Marine (later to become the U.S.Coast Guard) at a low point in its career. Returned to the Treasury Department following the War with Mexico, its fleet had shrunk to eight cutters and its administration had become dissipated among local seaport politicians. One of the few bright spots of these years was the launching of the steam cutter Harriet Lane, a highly successful vessel destined to lead the service out of the age of sail.

    The Civil War brought the Revenue-Marine again under Navy control, and with this came widespread action and a substantial increase in vessels. All the while the cutters did not lose sight of their older mission of revenue protection. In 1863 it became known by law as the Revenue Cutter Service, although the new designation does not seem to have been generally used for some years thereafter. Following the war, the Revenue-Marine returned to direct Treasury Department control, where it remained a civilian agency
    ——————————————

    Just sayin’…..

  • Snake Eater
    January 12, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Not that it really matters…especially if your’e a take no prisioners vet of the Senior Service…but I’d strongly recommend that you- all reserve judgement on this matter until Barry’s big parade next Tuesday and you eyeball the service connection of the … lead/first/ senior marching unit…trust me on this… and all will be revealed at that time. Best

  • RetRsvMike
    January 12, 2009 at 11:07 am

    thank you Snake. i was actually going to wait until after the parade to demonstrate the correct answer.

  • Snake Eater
    January 12, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    RRM, Sorry to steal your thunder…I just could’nt resist teeing-up these unaware gomers a bit. Best

  • RetRsvMike
    January 12, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Snake: no, no, none stolen… perfectly willing to have someone else chortling along.

    …good to know someone else was watching for the correct answer to be profoundly apparent.

  • b2
    January 13, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    Oh…I thought the winner of the 2008 CIC’s trophy was to lead the inauguration parade, too..I guess the Casons are leading again, eh? Makes sense sorta. After all, Washington was Commander of the Continental Army. However, I’ll bet if George tried to task John Paul Jones during the revolution, Jones would have told hin to pack sand!

    Nit picking twits all, ‘specially Pedantic-Pecker Head…er ..Wood, knock on.

    BTW, the Coast Guard is not a ‘service’, it’s a PR organization.

    Gomer1

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