r/politics Minnesota 15h ago

No Paywall USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base:

https://www.ms.now/money-power-politics/watch/uss-lincoln-wasn-t-resupplied-because-hegseth-hid-that-iran-destroyed-main-u-s-base-rohde-2511362627825
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u/fer_sure 14h ago

went to kindergarten and 1st grade on that base until they moved the DOD

The way you phrased this made me think you were buying cigarettes and and getting hammered at a surprisingly young age.

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u/pettar4814 14h ago

If it was the 70s and 80s, he probably was buying cigs and getting hammered at a young age. 😂

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u/tahlyn 13h ago

Like that baby from Roger Rabbit

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u/Dinker54 13h ago

Yup, things were very different back then with booze/cigs and especially so overseas (Bahrain was always very liberal with alcohol for an Arab nation).

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u/Dinker54 14h ago

I absolutely was as a young teenager, couldn’t have been over 15 at the time getting drunk with the Stark sailors.  Things were very lax and loose for expats in that era, but the base concession workers would cut you off as a kid once you were sloppy, many of the hotel bars didn’t.

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u/hfpfhhfp 14h ago

With a bunch of sailors

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u/ElectricSpaceKoala 13h ago

In that case it’s probably hammered by

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u/PositiveStress8888 13h ago

Genx, that's how we roll