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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Voted Best Sport
And narrowly averted the despised moniker Smiley Master

Forward deployed until 18AUG00

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Cheiffy,cant you download mirc and come chat sometime?

What about opals java applet thingy?

Take care buddy.
Kelli

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As much as I’d like to kells, I can not.

All my posts (and for that matter e-mails, phone calls and faxes) go through a giant server aboard the ship, get prioritized, get sent from the IKE, bounced off the Challenge-Athena satellite, get received in Pensacola, Fla., get added to the deployed units queue, get shuffled over to the internet server, and appear here. At any point along the way there may be a delay, causing my message to you fine folks to be delayed indefinitely.
With these built in delays in makes it impossible for me to “chat”.

Additionally, you snow bound canuck, I am seven hours ahead of you guys. When it’s midnight here, it’s 5 p.m. on the East Coast of North America (please take note of the non-national bias prevelent in my last sentence).

[sarcasm] BTW, because you live in Canada, I was unable to take advantage of the free postage normally available to servicemembers sending mail from an imminent danger area. I hope you enjoy your postcard from Italy! [/sarcasm]

Voted Best Sport
And narrowly averted the despised moniker Smiley Master

Forward deployed until 18AUG00

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Wait, why’s Italy an “imminent danger” area? Are they going to attack us with large quantities of espresso and overload our nervous systems with caffiene or something?

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Today is not your day.
Tomorrow isn’t looking good either.

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My dear and misguided sanibelman. Italy isn’t an imminent danger zone. The eastern part of the Adriatic Sea, directly off Croatia and the former Yugoslavia is an imminent danger zone.
An IDA is determined by Congress, as recommended by the service chiefs. It affords service members certain benefits including free letter mail to the states. The Adriatic and Persian Gulf IDZs are also “tax free” zones. Our pay isn’t taxed by the federal government while we are in these zones. Though money is still taken out of our paychecks, we’ll recoup the loss after we file our yearly income tax next year.

Voted Best Sport
And narrowly averted the despised moniker Smiley Master

Forward deployed until 18AUG00