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hey thats not fai….ZZZZZZZ
That’s only the Naval Academy…..they’re not important. As long as the Marines and Air Force stay awake, we’ll be alright!
As much as I like to rag the Navy, they DOOOOOO have an important role. I mean, come on. 4.5 Acres of sovereign American territory anywhere in the world you want to put it.
Fail. The Navy does more, better, than the Chair Force, it can park a carrier battle group well within range of 80 percent of the world’s population within a week and can vaporize a location using more than 100 tomahawks, launched from a sub no one can find, that won’t leave radiation everywhere. Not to mention the security of maritime trade and the transportation of afore mentioned marines.
The chair-force has a disappointing tendency to lose Nukes, an investment in a massively expensive and obsolete F-22, but I’ll give them this, they have great housing and decent catering services.
Arrr….
LOL! It takes them a week to get any place and their claim to fame is “it can park”!?!?!?! I’m impressed!
All hail the Student Drivers of the armed forces!!!
If you think the F22 is obsolete, you need to be rushed to a mental hospital. And I do mean rushed. Before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Naval Aviation is pretty awesome, but it is till quite lagging in total ability. It’s simply more mobile.
2 sailors enter a ship/ 1 couple leaves……
the F-22 is built for cold war air to air combat, two things should stand out in this statement “cold war” (19 years ago) and air to air combat, which is a rare occurance to say the least, coupled with the reliance of the airforce on immobile bases of operation limits their usefullness in an age of the strike fighter like the f-35, which is cheaper, more useful, and can be carrier based. The navy has greater capabilities, just about everything but carpet bombing.
also the Navy never had this happen http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071703161.html
Oh, yes, the homophobic ad hominem attack really is a convincing argument that has anything at all to do with the capability of a part of our armed forces. And, y’know, there have never been any gays in the marines or the airfoce, nosirree. *eyeroll*
I seem to remember an incident of a nuclear weapon rolling off the deck of a naval ship in the south China sea. At least you said Navy instead of Department of the Navy. Please remember the Marines are a part of the Department of the Navy…the men’s department.
HUA!
and dont get so defensive, navy boy. its a sign of weakness
wow. that was a bright comment, considering that the marines are part of the NAVY
about 1/3 of these people in the picture are going to be marines….learn your facts lol
Marine officers go to the naval academy at Annapolis, so I guess that leaves the Army and Air Force
New definition of passing out parade.
Two minutes later Admiral walked in and all hell broke loose with “Attention on Deck!!!”
I’d like to see that happen.
The scary thing is that the girl in the bottom right corner is actually PAYING ATTENTION!
Nope… she’s been trained to sleep with her eyes open.
well SOMEONE has to take notes.
Is paying attention what you got from her facial expression? Because I got “Too pissed off to even sleep.” Seriously she looks like she is about to rip someone’s face off.
I was thinking more along the lines of “bored to death and wishing to god she’d not so much caffeine earlier”
Well, duh.
They will, eventually, take over the world.
I’ve felt this before.
OK, I;m 99% sure this is plebes at the Naval Academy grabbing some much needed rest while waiting for a speaker. They are so sleep deprived during plebe sunner and plebe year this happens a lot.
Yeppers. Now how many bricks do you think will fall out of pants legs when someone yells TEN HUT?
In the Navy we say “Attention on Deck” :-p
You’re close. It’s a bunch of Middies listening to a lecture given my Justice Sandra Day O’Conner.
*by
they’re 2/c, check out the stripes on their sleeves… but yes, cadets and midshipmen are extremely sleep deprived
TRUTH.
My brother was a Mid in that crowd. The photo was taken before, not during, Justice O’Connor’s speech – they had been ordered to the auditorium at 6 AM for a speech scheduled for noon. Yes, they were all catching up on some much-needed rest. And yes, the photo (and the surrounding reporting) was COMPLETELY out of context.
Dear Ace5762: she’s actually catatonic.
This brings back memories of my high school. Some teachers could make Comparative Pornography a snooze.
“Can anyone tell me what kind of economics this was called? Anyone? Anyone? It’s something-d-o-o economics… Anyone? Anyone? It’s voodoo economics.”
P.S. Worse than High School — Marine Corps Infantry Training. You were always short of sleep but if you fell asleep in class it was your ass AND the two guys sitting on either side of you. Very effective.
It was always acceptable to get up and stand in back of the classroom if you felt a Z-attack sneaking up on you.
Until you were the dumb a$$ who feel asleep on your feet and crashed head first into a desk.
Scum: Not calling you dumb a$$, talking from experience about myself. Have the scar to prove it. Thinking I shoulda gotten a purple heart or two for that. Hey if John Kerry can get it……… **trolling trollin trolling**
They see me trollin’, they hatin’.
Ah, Power School. I wasn’t noob enough to go to Charleston, had to settle for Orlando. 1-12 oz jar of instant coffee per WEEK. Saw one guy snort No-Doz in class once. ONCE.
I remember a lt. medic giving the most boring class on first aid in basic. I literally used to recall his voice when I wanted to fall asleep for years to come. Anyway, at the end of his classes, it was not uncommon for over half the class to be standing in the back of the room.
My favorite was the 3 days of classes spent on land mines on how to identify and dismantle them while being told the whole time to “not touch a land mine”. I too did alot of standing in the back of the classroom on those days.
Did you touch the landmine?
It’s obvious you did. But it only damaged your brain. Unlucky us.
Peepertroll would have to have a brain for it to be damaged. Not an issue in its case.
“damaged your brain”?
What a fail you must be at life – you can’t even be an interesting troll. Stick to the “I know you are but what am I”. It’s more your level.
You enjoy being an ironic cliche’, don’t you.
WHOO bhudga
Well, we found the WMDs killing the troops…
Looks like they may have been at some sort of game. It’s a section of people, not just one or two. So I am willing to bet that is a squad who were up all night doing some extra-curricular activities…push-ups, wind sprints, etc. A very typical form of punish…’exercise’ in the military – including military school.
Well my eldest daughter went to the USNA, they look too dressed up for a game, more likely they are are waiting for a plebe summer speaker….
That could be, but did you ever see the Army Navy game? They are all dressed up. This may be a big game, or they just may have had an order to get ni their class a’s
Dilbert did it….and better….I’ve got the mug.
“Powerpoint Poisoning”
Only in the Navy one could sleep through a powerpoint, not worrying about an NCO coming in and smoking all of them. Let me see them try and do this at West Point LOL.
That pretty much happens at every Academy. Except the Air Force, b/c they’re supposed to sleep in a chair!!!
We keep well rested to beat you guys at football
We slept through lectures all the time at West Point, just had to be a little more sneaky about it. The stiff collars on dress gray were great for keeping your head propped up.
It’s like sleeping in church.
one of my brothers had his uniforms triple starched so he could sleep standing up and still look like he was at attention. worked until he started snoring during inspection.
Clever! Did he go on to be an inventor?
No wonder we can’t win any wars anymore.
Fail.
True, tho.
True that your a$$hat statement is a fail? Yes.
No, that the US can’t win wars anymore. I thought it was obvious, but guess I have to dumb things down a bit here.
peepers: No we win wars very well thank you. It’s the peace we suck at.
Last war the US won was what… WW2? With the help of the Russians? We’re very good at starting them, not so much the finishing part.
No, we just don’t speak fu(kweasel troll talk around here.
*sends pitcher of Stoli & lemonade to Ivan as royalty payment*
*takes shipment of booze in ivan’s stead*
he’s not here right now. he told me i could have this…
*sidles up to shortright* Hey baby..
I think the U.S. just has trouble engaging in win-able conflicts.
And just imagine how poorly we’d fare if we took on a country with a REAL army!
Actually, we’d spank the piss out of them. It’s this whole “don’t know who to shoot” thing that’s the problem. Give us fella’s in uniforms, tell us they’re the bad guys, and the shit goes down PDQ. It makes things slightly more difficult when a guy in street clothes is alternately a Civilian, a Person of interest, or an enemy dependent only on where his gun is pointing and whether it’s being fired.
Seems like a pretty good reason to stop picking fights with them then.
“Give us fella’s in uniforms.” So 200 years later you know how the Brits felt when they lost the colonies. How did that go.. an army with red uniforms that marches in a straight line vs no uniforms and hiding behind trees.. Seems guerrilla warfare started with the US?
I wouldn’t go so far as to give the US credit for starting guerrila warfare, so much as giving another large scale example of why it works. And for the record, peeps, I didn’t pick a fight with em, my bosses did. Long story short, most of us are just waiting for the politicians to pull their heads out of their asses and realize nothings going to change. To my knowledge there has never been a successful example of a traditional army “winning” against a civilian guerrilla force. On the plus, guerrilla wars tend to result in far less casualties than wars between traditional armies, not that it’s a good thing either way.
Actually, there are a few examples of a guerrilla force being soundly defeated by a traditional army. One example is after the fall of South Vietnam, the NVA was able to defeat the Hmong who continued to wage a guerrilla war. Also, from the same area, Pol Pot and the Cambodian army did a pretty good job of beating their own rebels. The only problem is, a modern, liberal government (liberal as in “of liberty” as opposed to “leftist or left leaning”) won’t murder every sonofabitch in the area, which is really the only way to defeat a guerrilla band.
If you think those of us in the military are some sort of mutants without a need to sleep, sir, then you can kindly STFU.
This made a lot of sense. Next time, think it through before typing.
I could understand it. But then again dumb a$$ is not my official language!!
hmm maybe it is but you’re too dumb to know it? Anyway, are you stalking me?
No one is stalking you. People in here have a low tolerance for those who troll in here and spout off like they own everyone. Such as yourself.
Show me on the doll where the bad man touched you, crybaby.
No, the doll is what you use to show how you got abused. The rest of us are happy, normal people. You are the only demented one here today.
Is that a pseudo-intellectual way of saying “I know you are but what am I”? Well done.
I think it’s cute that you’re trying to insult people on the internet as being stupid. Since the old saying is that you’re known by the company you keep, I guess that makes you the king of the stupid. Kindly go die now.
I haven’t insulted anyone, idiot.
I think that qualifies as an insult, though I’ll grant you that your method was previously more of an “egotistical passive-aggressive” with tones of sarcasm and derision than outright insult.
putting the NAP in ANNAPOLIS
Ha!
Nice. *gold claps*
“*gold claps*” Does that have anything to do with silver love handles?
No, it’s *gold clap*, the best of the best clap. It requires the best of the best in antibiotics.
*headdesk* I must be suffering sleep deprivation like the plebes in this photo. It’s supposed to be GOLF claps.
Don’t worry. We have *golf craps* over on FailBlog.
Huh?
For more speculations about what is happening in the picture, THIS is the last discussion regarding this reused picture.
Pretty much says it all really. Next!
“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”
Nothing of the sort, really. This picture was taken early in the morning. The president was coming in to speak to them so the midshipmen had to get up early to go through security. Since there is around 4,400 people the guards needed to check, it took a while and they’re taking a quick nap while the rest of the brigade gets there.
I’d sleep through any presidential speech, well except Pres GWB, I’d be taking bets on how many words he screwed up with the tie breaker being the person who got the closest to what the words were really supposed to be…
I’d sleep thru Obama’s speech and just read the teleprompter later….
Like any President, except #43, since he couldn’t read things just came out in some kinda language…noone was really sure which, but most experts think it was a language of some sort.
Is that where all the missing teleprompters have been going? ‘Cause I think you might mean, you know, the pre-written speech. They’re gonna need that teleprompter when other people need to use it.
because obama is the first president to read of tellypromoters
It really does show how stupid these people are. Fox tells them how to feel and what to feel it about, and they say “ok” without a half thought for how ridiculous it actually is.
Why do we all know that you get your daily blabbing from Olberman?
good one…
Feel their pain. I got saddled as a seat filler for Dubya a few years ago, we were stuck in a hanger from around 10 pm to 5:30 am after security checks waiting for him. After a 12 hour work day. Naps = survival.
This is JUST like my history class! Except, y’know, for all the uniforms
typical american, sleepy & lazy
What an uneducated, hateful remark. Those kids get about 4-5 hours of sleep in a time when they are worked like crazy. I doubt you would be nearly as tough as they are. It takes a lot of gut to go through plebe week at the Naval Academy.
TROLL”D HARD
Sounds like parenting an infant.
In Soviet Russia, sleepy and lazy is you. And putz? In whole world, putz is you.
Been here before. And for all you haters, you couldn’t make it through. The military is definitely NOT the place for wussies. Regardless of branch. God Bless our Troops!
Please don’t saddle them with God, they have a real job to deal with and don’t need fairy tales.
Oi! You! Disgruntled veteran guy!
…. You’re awesome.
TROLL”D VERY VERY HARD
Agreed! Those who just talk about it, and have never been there have no idea how hard it is. Men got it easy; their bodies are made for it. Women, jeez, is it not easy for us. But yes, regardless of branch, please let all our troops come home safely.
they’re playing that wink murder game and the girl bottom right is really crap at guessing who the murderer is.
I kind of understand what thats like lol, when I was in the army for basic training, we would be doing stuff all day like running, rifle lessons, more running and so on, and they would always leave lectures until the end of the day by which time your screwed, everyone starts nodding off, its damn near un controlable, the major once thwacked a private cos he was asleep, funny cos it took 3 thwacks to wake him up! lol
I wrote this post today, see what you folks think of my bizarre mind lol.
what if i and clint eastwood were the only men on earth?
Looks like the Force vulcan death grip…again
As for the comments about the F-22 and F-35, let me point out that the F-35 is primarily an Air Force plane, and compared to the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the F-22 is brand new. oh, and guess what? it doesn’t matter where you are on the planet; if your ‘floating mobile home’ gets hit, you can’t land! fancy that….
Which is why your FMH gets escorted everywhere aby about a quarter of the naval vessels you have that aren’t FMHs.
yawn, nice picture, power point is a snoozer, though.
“Jiggalypuff… jiggaly…e..e…puff…”