ROK Drop Open Thread – October 08, 2017

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johnnyboy
johnnyboy
6 years ago

Hi all,

Wanted to give you guys some potentially good news. The sick child that you guys helped raise funds for a while back might be getting sponsored to travel overseas for corrective surgery for his heart defect.

Thought you guys might like to know and I wanted to thank you all again for the help at the time.

Liz
Liz
6 years ago

That’s awesome! Thanks for the update, Johnnyboy. 🙂

setnaffa
setnaffa
6 years ago

Always glad to hear good news these days.

Mike Morgan
Mike Morgan
6 years ago

In unrelated news, some vehicles might be more resilient than others. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/humvee-has-no-electronics-for-emp-to-damage.html

guitard
guitard
6 years ago

Slowly but surely, this place is closing down … Yongsan Arts & Crafts Center to permanently close down on 17 November.

Smokes
Smokes
6 years ago

“Yongsan Arts & Crafts Center to permanently close down on 17 November”

If it was anything like any of the 2ID ones it realistically closed down in the mid 80’s.

guitard
guitard
6 years ago

“If it was anything like any of the 2ID ones it realistically closed down in the mid 80’s.”

I never went to an Arts & Crafts Center in 2ID, so I can’t say from personal experience, but the one at Yongsan is two 2-story buildings and seems to offer quite a bit. I had a former boss who spent most of his free time there building furniture (china cabinets, book shelves, children’s bedroom sets, etc.). I refinished a dining room set there around five years ago. The KGS employees there are pretty helpful also.

JoeC
JoeC
6 years ago

Several years ago, I had an idea for a woodwork project and went to Osan AB’s Arts and Crafts only to find out the same thing this guy did. They have no woodshop.

If they open one at Camp Humphreys I might pay them a visit.

Smokes
Smokes
6 years ago

Guitar actually my bad, I’m thinking of the hobby shops that were up in 2ID, don’t think I actually saw or went into an A&C shop…

Nevermind; carry on… :silly:

Smokes
Smokes
6 years ago

I wrote “Guitard” by the way, `the Drop saw fit to auto-correct it without my realization. 😕

JoeC
JoeC
6 years ago

Now I understand why 7th Fleet commanders were relieved so soon after the USS McCain collision. There really were unaddressed issues in at least one part of the chain of command.

Distressing reading.

setnaffa
setnaffa
6 years ago

Earthquake, new test, or collapse of previously-weakened mountain?

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000aqsx#executive

Smokes at Work
Smokes at Work
6 years ago

US and South Korea to Create Future Alliance Command
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-and-south-korea-to-create-future-alliance-command_2333001.html

All hail the FAC!

Probably just more of the same appearing to do something while maintaining the quo but interestingly they mention downgrading the command to 3 stars.

Smokes at Work
Smokes at Work
6 years ago

Korea not exercising jurisdiction over most USFK crime
http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171010000870

Been a while since we had a good cry over the SOFA. 😥

I enjoy how they misrepresent the situation as one where crime goes unpunished on the whole. Nor do they mention that the RoK most likely is passing on jurisdiction because it’s cheaper to let USFK process it.

The hypocrisy cherry on the top is this baby:
“SOFA should be revised immediately to protect our jurisdiction rights and lives and property of our citizens.”
In the very same article which states:
“The agreement — approved and enacted in 1967 and revised twice in 1991 and 2001 — states that… …will waive its primary right to exercise jurisdiction upon the request of the US, although it can choose not to. ”

“choose not to” 😕
choose…
not…
to…
😐

Smokes at Work
Smokes at Work
6 years ago

Six weeks later, Drivecam trial helps Area II address risks
https://www.army.mil/article/194909/six_weeks_later_drivecam_trial_helps_area_ii_address_risks

Way to use a non-thumbnailed image so undersized and dithered that you can’t read the actual slide, a-holes. ❗

Does the 3rd item say “Failed to Keep an Out”? The hell’s that mean? 😕

Anyway, I’m wondering if they set the metrics realistically and didn’t use US-based ones because you’ll be able to drive that way for about a whole 15 minutes before you realize that shit ain’t going to work.

kangaji
kangaji
6 years ago

B R Myers will be at Duke University (North Carolina) on October 17th (Tuesday) at 6 pm at the Rubenstein Library, Room 153. I’m not around Duke University but if anybody is it would be worth the time to check out.

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
6 years ago

Anyone know anything about the Rotary Club?

Mike Morgan
Mike Morgan
6 years ago

Johnnyboy, the Rotary clubs are all around the world; and they allow people not connected with a church to have fundraisers and send money to organizations promising whirled peas and an end to violins. Or something like that.

Last I checked, they were active though less successful than the Texas Baptist Men at either (then again, the Baptists were already set up to help people and repair places in Texas, Florida, and even Puerto Rico). But Rotary looks good on your resume, if you have the money to keep up.

Might be ill-mannered to say it; but folks shouldn’t take credit for what their organization says it does, just what they themselves do. And they shouldn’t blow a trumpet about that, either.

Speaking of which, I need to be a lot more active this year.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
6 years ago

“Anyone know anything about the Rotary Club?”

Probably will leave you with the feeling you are going around in circles.

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
6 years ago

I was just curious. Hadn’t ever heard a whole lot about them. Charity Navigator rates them well. The wiki on them sounds good, but didn’t know if anyone here had any personal experiences.

Apparently, they played a role in arranging for little buddy to get his corrective heart surgery.

Liz
Liz
6 years ago

No one has really talked about the Puerto Rico hurricane stuff (unless I missed it).
I am very close friends with the person in charge of the airlift over there (and elsewhere….Houston, ect…this guy hasn’t had a day off, to include weekends, in over two months).
So I see this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/san-juan-mayor-plea-donald-trump-puerto-rico-crisis-aid-hurricane-maria-carmen-yul-n-cruz-latest-a7998831.html

To offer some perspective, the port at San Juan was filled with supplies….absolutely overrun with supplies from the US, while Cruz did a photo shoot recently at a local church claiming and wailing, “This is ALL we have received from the US so far!”
Trump is right about her. She is a parasite. Apparently they have been taking money from us to fix the power grid electrical system for years and invested it in different things, just like New Orleans and the levies, also.
FEMA has advised to not even talk to her or work with her anymore. She’s that much of a parasite. This is all politically motivated. Very depressing.

JoeC
JoeC
6 years ago

The September COLA number finally came out. My calculations show a 1.96 percent increase for retiree pay. I don’t know if that will round to 2 percent.

JoeC
JoeC
6 years ago

Correction: instead of September COLA number I meant September CPI-W number, used to calculate the COLA.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
6 years ago

“It will be interesting to see if any investigations are done afterwards to determine why Puerto Rico was as unprepared as it was.”

Hispanic culture + island culture + Democrats + long time culture of dependency…

…those poor, poor people never had a chance.

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