I already know where it is, I want to know how bad is it?phongn wrote:Greenland.Rubberanvil wrote:Just how bad is "THULE"?The Duchess of Zeon wrote:At the very least, his file is already marked "THULE" in big, bold letters.
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Pope AFB. It's right next to or adjoining (don't remember which) Fort Bragg, NC. Basically, from what I know, they are the 82nd Airborne's and the Special Force's taxi service, and that's about all they do there.Rubberanvil wrote:Where's that?Wicked Pilot wrote: He needs to go to "No Hope" Pope.
Don't know why it's "No Hope" though. Maybe just because it's pretty much on an Army base. Generally if someone says "No Hope" I'm thinking it would have negative effects on your career to be stationed there. That true?
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The wing based there has two A-10 and two C-130 squadrons. Both are the bottom rung in the air force despite their rather vital missions.RogueIce wrote:
Pope AFB. It's right next to or adjoining (don't remember which) Fort Bragg, NC. Basically, from what I know, they are the 82nd Airborne's and the Special Force's taxi service, and that's about all they do there.
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They have two A-10s? That's news to me. I thought they made all the A-10s into reservists though.Sea Skimmer wrote:The wing based there has two A-10 and two C-130 squadrons. Both are the bottom rung in the air force despite their rather vital missions.RogueIce wrote:
Pope AFB. It's right next to or adjoining (don't remember which) Fort Bragg, NC. Basically, from what I know, they are the 82nd Airborne's and the Special Force's taxi service, and that's about all they do there.
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How bad can "Thule" be?
Have you ever heared the saying, "stationed way out in the 'too lees?'"(Spelled phoneticaly)
It is an intentional mispronunciation. It is armyspeak for the boondocks,wilderness, or any post with extreme isolation from cilivation, comperable to Thule Greenland..
Being stationed at Thule is literaly being stationed out in the Thule(s).It's very NAME was chosen as a metaphore for this meaning.You know a place sucks when it's name becomes a slangword for sucking!
That's how bad it can be.
Have you ever heared the saying, "stationed way out in the 'too lees?'"(Spelled phoneticaly)
It is an intentional mispronunciation. It is armyspeak for the boondocks,wilderness, or any post with extreme isolation from cilivation, comperable to Thule Greenland..
Being stationed at Thule is literaly being stationed out in the Thule(s).It's very NAME was chosen as a metaphore for this meaning.You know a place sucks when it's name becomes a slangword for sucking!
That's how bad it can be.
Hmmmmmm.
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