Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
Bulldog I think you will see now the "assignments" in Europe have been swapped and moved east a bit that was why I asked about your timings.
Yes, indeed. Some of us were reassigned to Vienna and Prague 98/99 as the Czech area really heated up albeit you may have been a 'young pup'
then. Nevertheless, I'm confident you're familiar with Operation Allied Force Kosovo...
Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
With the new US bases in Poland and Romania coming soon and a new NATO FOL coming to an "Eastern" location things are really moving East.
Yes--timing is everything, to the east we may well go again, sooner than NATO and JCS planned . . .but the breaking news about the latest Kosovo happenings is not unexpected ....however, I fear we'll have plenty of civil unrest and plenty of troubles of our own to deal with in the streets of the average American city after the elections are over.
"Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army whose ethnic Albanian guerrillas clashed with Serb troops in a 1998-99 conflict that claimed 10,000 lives, was expected to convene an extraordinary session of parliament Sunday afternoon to proclaim the Republic of Kosovo."
Underscoring Serb anger, about 1,000 people staged a noisy protest in Belgrade on Saturday, waving Serbian flags and chanting "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia."
Kosovo has formally remained a part of Serbia even though it has been administered by the U.N. and NATO since the war ended in 1999. The province is still protected by 16,000 NATO-led peacekeepers, and the alliance boosted its patrols over the weekend in hopes of discouraging violence. International police, meanwhile, deployed to back up local forces in the tense north.
"It would be best for the Americans to take the Albanians to America and give them a part of their territory, so that they could have a small republic there," Ljubinko Stefanovic, a resident of the ethnically divided northern town of Kosovska Mitrovica, said in disgust. [/B]
Nice thing to awake to, at 0400, LUH ? --
Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
I fly out of DCA often as I am a lobbyist and I have never had the pleasure of the crow. I have read about him on here but never had the pleasure.
I am not sure if I should be happy about that or sad LOL part of me is happy I usually have "normal" experiances but part of me wants the fun of picking on the hacks. DCA is actually one of the few locations where the checkers are chatty and not in a spotnik way. I tend to fly at off hour times so it is normally not crowded. They normally are talking sports or weather.
I like DCA better than IAD myself.
Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
But you never know maybe the "kids" father was overseas...hell could have been the Salvation army for all the TSA knows.
TSA needs Salvation something to save it from itself...
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