Homeless Diver

I have to agree with Nick on this, some people simply cannot keep themselves from embellishing the facts.  Having been in the military and again in war in civilian capacity, I can vouch that a great many people call home with ‘war stories’. He references a story on military.com that reeks of a bunch of hooey that seems to be todays calling card for gaining sympathy for those that have otherwise un-extraordinary lives in the military/gov’t sectors. Just because you ‘were there’ does not make you a fucking hero. Nick is a contractor on Antarctica, (and has experience in Iraq as well).

I like his take on this. The most interesting parts are the comments that came back to slam him from POV’s assuming fellow Ice Folk identities.

I once had another blog where I slammed the military and contractors alike for calling/writing home about how ‘dangerous’ it was… when none of these people experienced anything more dangerous than high cholesterol from the 4x daily buffet of all-you-can-eat DFAC meals. I would regularly get nasty grams about how insensitive I was to the war fighters.

One rather large group of correspondence was from the friends of a particular person that is now part of those fictitious Pajamas Media ‘experts’. He lied blatantly and embellished everything so bad that one blog entry claimed to have a mortar hitting next to his trailer when it was actually 4 kilometers away outside CP-1 (which I had to do the report on). He talked about having to endure the hardships of eating bland military food when he was actually only issued a single MRE for the flight over and had access to the Embassy chow hall at 4 meals a day…. and it was great food. I had his billeting info, his work schedule, his civilian work history, his palace office info & tasking, ..everything. I was not part of the RSO and the info was nonsecured. His was a social agenda - so was mine.

Even after calling out this supercool cat, his friends then slammed me for the act of ‘calling out’ instead of admiting their friend was a craptastic lier.

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(this is the most blandest, under lubricated, thick walled, boring condom out there….obviously HR had something to do with its selection)

Intrepid souls braving the cold climes of Antarctica clearly find traditional ways of keeping warm.

McMurdo Station has taken delivery of 16,488 condoms. The shipment last month constitutes a year’s supply, ensuring the frisky can stay safe in the sack.

The station’s manager, Bill Henriksen, said he was initially surprised by the delivery but said there was “not really” anything unusual about McMurdo staff.

“During the summertime we’ve got a normal population of 1100 people and this is for the year round not for the 125 people we have here in the winter,” he said.

The last flight out of McMurdo before winter was on February 26. There will be no relief from winter’s darkness until the first sunrise of spring, on August 20.

“There are some people that tend to get a little bit bored but, for the most part, people who come down here know how to occupy their time,” Henriksen said.

The condoms would be freely available to staff avoiding any embarrassing purchases.

“Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable we’d prefer to just provide them and do it that way so that people don’t do without.”

Ok…I looked it up and averaged the staff population for McMurdo over the summer/winter fluxuations…and that comes to about 27 condoms per person, per year. shoot…if only a few people are getting nookie, I would be strutting tall as ever into the store, slap a few dollars down loudly and announce to anyone within earshot “If you don’t mind, I would sincerely like to purchase one of your fine prophylactics. Yes sir, I need a condom!”