# Chief's Log #7 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518 "2000-04-28T18:21:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/1 "2000-04-29T05:30:00Z")
Greetings from the excruciatingly confined Adriatic Sea! I’ve put another port behind me. I stayed a few nights in a seaside hotel in the little town on the island of Corfu. Lovely warm sun. I brought a group of 110 Albanian students aboard the ship for tours. Suitabley impressed they were. On Easter, I was able to get a phone call through to my six-year-old son who spent the weekend at my Mom’s. This gave the ex a break too. This week we’re steaming circles here off the coast of the Former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia. Presence operations and sustained flight ops are taking up a lot of our time. The USS Mahan, a guided missile destroyer with my battle group, picked up a couple of Montenegrins today. Their powerboat sank six days ago. I guess it _could_ be worse for me out here! I handled the press release and coordinated some of the assistance. Your Chief, hard at work. Monday, we pull into Debrovic, Croatia – the first U.S. carrier to do so in more than a decade. I’ll be involved with a lot of the community relations projects, ship tours and handling visits by the Croatian president, prime minister and U.S. Ammbasador to Croatia. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to sample the local cuisine, but it doesn’t look too good right now. 'Til next time… ## Yer pal, ChiefScott Guest contributor Straight Dope Science Advisory Board [My 15 minutes of fame](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mkiwi.html) ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/2 "2000-04-29T05:32:00Z")
Hang in there Chief your doing a great job! * * * One of the few to be personally welcomed to this board by Ed Zotti. Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/3 "2000-04-29T05:38:00Z")
Awww, screw this nambly-pambly Club Med stuff. when are you going to blow somebody up? And yes, I **am** jealous, ya bastard. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/4 "2000-04-28T18:21:00Z")
Glad to hear from you, Chief. I hope you have a lot of fun there, well, as much as you can anyway. I also hope that you get to sample some of the local cuisine, as long as it isn’t dog. 😉 Take care, and keep in touch. * * * You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming. Og Mandino That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/5 "2000-04-29T15:43:42Z")
How’d pb climb on top of me? Not that I’m complaining, mind you… ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/6 "2000-04-30T05:53:11Z")
_Ahem_ I am quite sure that I don’t know, Chief! :o Anything else I thought of adding would only get me in trouble, so I’ll just try to quietly slip off, and tiptoe back out of the room… BTW, thanks for the compliment. :o ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/7 "2000-04-30T16:30:48Z")
Mmmmm. Slipping off… ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/8 "2000-04-30T16:38:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Mmmmm. Slipping off… > \*\* Been at sea a while there, havn’t 'ya, Cheif. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/9 "2000-04-30T16:39:50Z")
I mean, Chief. (note to self…use preview feature) ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/10 "2000-04-30T17:50:26Z")
Thanks for being out there, chief. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/11 "2000-04-30T19:13:00Z")
I assume, OB, the emphasis is on my being “out there.” ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/12 "2000-04-30T20:00:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Mmmmm. Slipping off… > \*\* Oh, dear. :o :o I don’t know what to say, Chief… On a completely unrelated note, where do you live when stateside, BTW? ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/13 "2000-05-01T05:57:04Z")
See? Maybe I _am_ a moloster after all. _Sigh_ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chiefs-log-7/16518/14 "2000-05-01T15:04:22Z")
I can answer that one…he lives in beautiful Norfolk, Virginia. Which is why he keeps getting pissed off that I haven’t made it down from DC yet.