A Frog-Prince, beloved by the Krauts. A good Christian soldier. Loved taking the steel and the flame to those heathen bastids.
Side note. I've touched the Prinz Eugen, the USS Prinz Eugen (she was accepted temporarily into the US Navy,) at Kwajalein Atoll. Neat wreck, sadly deteriorating, and the eco-jerks are freaking out about the potential oil leak from her tanks. They're not freaking out over the chemicals, oils or explosives on all the Japanese wrecks, of course, just the one that used to belong to the US.
It was a momentous and joyful experience being at the Catcher's Mitt of the Western Test Range (now Ronald Reagan Test Range.) The Launcher of said WTR, being Vandenberg, was where dad, and thus us, was stationed before Kwajalein.
Got to see all sorts of things normal people don't get to see. Walking on the reef at lowest tide and swimming in the shell craters. Finding expended brass and other things in our yard. Discovering a crate of Japanese handgrenades while snorkling. Watching functioning anti-ballistic missiles intercept incoming warhead simulators (Spartan missiles go for a very long time and were 'slow.' Sprint missiles go for short distances and were very fast, very very fast.)
You may not be able to go to Kwajalein, but you can go to other parts of the Mashall Islands, like Majuro or Truk (Chu'uk) and the fishing and snorkling/diving are spectacular.
What a fetching tune! Ilike it!
ReplyDeleteSo uplifting, LASK! And practical, too.
DeleteIt's got a beat, and you can dance to it.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting, shoot 'em all kinda guy. Stout fellow.
Exactly, Wild. Me? I like the timing of the song, per you, it has a beat.
DeleteMy favorite part? The rage and humiliation! It makes my withered up Italian heart sing with joy...
ReplyDeleteSame here, Adrienne! I fear you might be psychic.
DeleteA Frog-Prince, beloved by the Krauts. A good Christian soldier. Loved taking the steel and the flame to those heathen bastids.
ReplyDeleteSide note. I've touched the Prinz Eugen, the USS Prinz Eugen (she was accepted temporarily into the US Navy,) at Kwajalein Atoll. Neat wreck, sadly deteriorating, and the eco-jerks are freaking out about the potential oil leak from her tanks. They're not freaking out over the chemicals, oils or explosives on all the Japanese wrecks, of course, just the one that used to belong to the US.
That's a heckuvva side note, Beans. I've never been out there.
DeleteIt was a momentous and joyful experience being at the Catcher's Mitt of the Western Test Range (now Ronald Reagan Test Range.) The Launcher of said WTR, being Vandenberg, was where dad, and thus us, was stationed before Kwajalein.
DeleteGot to see all sorts of things normal people don't get to see. Walking on the reef at lowest tide and swimming in the shell craters. Finding expended brass and other things in our yard. Discovering a crate of Japanese handgrenades while snorkling. Watching functioning anti-ballistic missiles intercept incoming warhead simulators (Spartan missiles go for a very long time and were 'slow.' Sprint missiles go for short distances and were very fast, very very fast.)
You may not be able to go to Kwajalein, but you can go to other parts of the Mashall Islands, like Majuro or Truk (Chu'uk) and the fishing and snorkling/diving are spectacular.