Overheard on Albie Speer's Marine Officer Selection Course

[Egbert]

Am I the only one that misses Alby's posts? I hope he fails so we get him back...

We can look forward to posts from a remote combat area in Afghanistan. Something like:

What do I do with this woman? I have an enemy combatant shooting at me but as she is a woman I have no idea what to do. What should I do?

[regexcellent]

He won't be going to Afghanistan if the president's timetable is to be believed. He's not going to get to a unit before it deploys and I don't think any more Marine reserve units are deploying anyway.

[MichaeltheGreat]

We're out of that sinking ****hole. No way we're gonna stick around any longer than '14. It's just a question of how soon after we see Karzai in a new video, unless he has the sense to flee the country.

[Alexander's Horse]

wouldn't it be interesting if they found Aimen Al Zawiriri hiding in Karzai's palace, sadly not altogether implausible...

[MichaeltheGreat]

Two birds with one drone.

The only question about Karzai isn't has he sold out, it's how many parties has he sold out to concurrently?

[Alexander's Horse]

speaking to someone very close to the action in Guam this week, they are packing up their bongos over there in Kaboom, but it would Albie's luck to be on the last rotation, wouldn't it...

I'm not the only who bugged out to the Pacific...give me water over sand any day