Air Force One

Where are we as far as time/quarter?

I should make it to halftime then I have to get to bed but I will get up and review the second half posts first thing in the morning. I appreciate your kind words but on game day I really appreciate your updates! Go Sioux!

I am. I figured since it is a home game and the Potato Bowl there wouldn't be too many people on line. Like I said last week, the Comm Sq here blocks all streaming audio and video so these updates are all I have to follow the game. All info is apprecitated.

"Gary Owen" is also a traditional song of the Cavalry. There are a lot of ways you could work the Cavalry into UND, get the Army ROTC guys on board, the helicopter avaiation students that end up flying Apaches or Kiowas will be in the modern Cavalry along with anyone that ends up in armor. Dakotadan has some great ideas, the Pride of the North Band could dress up like troopers. A cavalry officer is very proud of his unit to the point that the dark blue stetson with the gold rope and spurs are authorized accessories to the uniform to this day, and even look good on the desert uniform, our Army Ground Liasion Officer wears his several times a week over here. Digital Tradition Mirror Gary Owen Gary Owen cho: Gary Owen, Gary Owen, Gary Owen In the valley of Montana all alone There are better days to be In the seventh cavalry When we charge again For dear old Gary Owen. I can hear those Sioux bucks singing, Sgt. Flynn I can hear those tom-toms ringing, Sgt. Flynn I can hear those Sioux bucks singing, I can here those tom-toms ringing, But they don't yet know the tune to Gary Owen. It's first call I hear it sounding, Sgt. Flynn And it sounds like taps a-rounding, Sgt. Flynn Oh me lads, here's something fancy Take a break, it's Private Clancy And you'll feel better when he strikes up Gary Owen For it's Boots and Saddles sounding, Sgt. Flynn Along the line the men are bounding, Sgt. Flynn So let' saddle-up and fall in For the trumpets are callin' And the band is tuning up for Gary Owen. For it's forward we're advancing, Sgt. Flynn And the breeze guides are a-lancing, Sgt. Flynn Walk, trot, gallop, charge by thunder, We will ride those cut throats under. Drive your sabers to the hilt for Gary Owen. We are ambushed and surrounded, Sgt. Flynn Yet recall has not been sounded, Sgt. Flynn Gather round me and we'll rally Make one last stand in the valley For the Seventh Regiment and Gary Owen. You are cut, and scalped, and battered, Sgt. Flynn All your men are dead and scattered, Sgt. Flynn I will make your bed tomorrow With my head bowed down in sorrow. O'er your grave, I'll whistle Taps And Gary Owen. Leader sings lines of verses, group yells back "Sgt. Flynn" and "Gary Owen" at the end of each of those lines. WH

Again, thanks to all for the updates. Winona's Game of the Century? Wow! Try crow pie of the century.

Thanks for all the updates. I gotta hit the rack, was up all night last night working so I haven't slept much the last 2 days. Keep the updates coming and I will read them first thing in the morning before work. Go Sioux!

Thanks and keep it coming! Sounds like the offense is clicking and with a pick for a TD the defense is it's old self, is that what is going on?

What's going on in the game? Our Communications Squadron runs a firewall that blocks all streaming audio and video, I need your updates to follow the game!

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I just had to check in here to state that I am Scandinavian and Irish, I am represented in the NFL by a Norse warrior and in the NC$$ by a leprechaun with his fists up and I do not feel offended by either and I feel that the portrayals of both are less than flattering but I am proud of both sides of my ethnic background AND I AM KNOWLEDGABLE OF BOTH OF THOSE BACKGROUNDS. I don't sit and obsess on this; there are bigger things in life. Look at what is going on in the world today, Iraq, Louisiana, Mississippi. I see the wounded coming down from up north, I have been riveted to the TV the last couple of days when I am not working watching the coverage of the devastation from Katrina and it amazes me that there is so much energy expended on this. Does it matter the ethnic background of the soldier that gets killed or wounded trying to establish order in Iraq? Do the people in Biloxi care what the mascot of the college the aid worker attended was? If a certain person has so much time on his hands instead of complaining about something simply for the fact of complaining and creating drama, get out there and start a fund raiser for hurricane relief. If you don

Finley, first period, 8 Oct vs Miami; he's just too big

10 Oct 05 - Air Force One arrives home for 3 weeks of leave from the desert 14&15 Oct - Attends the Northeastern series 28&29 Oct - Attends the Denver series 2 Nov - Air Force One returns to Hell's waiting room

You're exactly right JFR, and it looks like paradise from here! Everybody have a great weekend! I'll be home for the Northeastern series in Oct!

Wow, and my wife says I talk just to hear the sound of my voice, she should read this! I never thought of taking my kids to a hockey game to learn history, what a concept! I thought a hockey game was somewhere you went to be seen, make business deals, exchange cookie recipes, talk on your cell phone, drink as much beer as you can afford and not cheer. And I'm scandnavian too, let my people go!

Yes I do

I'm back! The deal I had fell through, the guy got his own tickets so the above offer is back on the table. If anybody is interested or knows somebody that is, send them my way!

Man, all this talk on property and taxes makes my decision to build in EGF look pretty good. Standard neighborhood, no golf courses, although the new one is just up the street, no rivers or lakes. Last year we built a 2200 SF, 4 bdrm, 2 bath house, 2 car attached garage, finished basement, other upgrades on a 90x150 lot, $142,000 (appraised at 146) which included the $18,000 for the lot, minus the $10K city incentive forgiven after 10 years. $1700 per year in taxes.

I was so excited when I looked at the closure list on CNN.com, and so heartbroken when I read the article on the Heraldo on-line. Keeping the base open but taking an active duty personnel cut of nearly 2,300 personnel seems totally like an empty victory. I am over here with a follow-on assignment to come back to GFAFB next May, to what? Will I get to keep my assignment? Will have have to spend another year and a half after this away from my family before I can retire and move back to the valley? I am purely heartbroken tonight. I've been assigned to wings that have 800 or less assigned and it is a ghost town. They are currently spending $25 million on a new 11,000 foot runway and somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million on already completed and future housing construction for over 1,000 families, and the money that is already committed and contracts already let will be completed, even if the new units sit empty. Some of the planes and the personnel that fly and maintain them are going to McConnell AFB, KS, and MacDill AFB, FL, but I can't find where the rest of the folks are going. All my friends will be leaving. I guess I will have to make the best of those friendships once I get back from here and before they go. I was assigned there for the last 9 years and the base engenders everything I like about living in EGF/GF, small town pace and feel, even though it is a collage of people from the entire country from Maine to Hawaii, and we are the best air refueling wing on the face of the planet, we have the awards to prove it! I am at the same base that we have over 18 of the bases' tankers flying missions over Iraq and Afganistan everyday, and we do it damn good day in and day out. We flew 35% of the tanker missions during Operation Enduring Freedom with our airplanes, the rest of the refueling community flew the rest, over 1/3 came from our base alone! We busted our asses only to get shut down and redistributed like old parts so that they can fly glorified model airplanes off the same runway that used to launch B52s and helped keep the Red Menace at bay. I just feel so betrayed right now. I guess we find out our fate tomorrow. Yipee, there will almost be enough people left on base to throw a party.

I was at that game, I think we beat them 10 or 11 to 1 the next night.

Sorry, I snapped that off immediately when I got to that post before reading the whole thread. Felt good to get it off my chest though.

I've about had it with North Dakota bashing! If I wanted all of the crap you listed I guess I would move to it, wouldn't I!! I don't! Not everybody does. Joshie didn't like it so he moved out. I couldn't wait to leave when I finished HS and joined the AF. 8 years I spent between Europe and Seattle, WA. I loved those assignments, experienced a lot, but now I live back here and in 2 days have to go to the butthole of the world for a year and leave all this that apparently Joshie and you find so repugnant that you have to escape into the cultural meccas of what americans call "professional" sports. His "rich experinences" of standing on the floor of the Rose Bowl with stealth fighter roaring overhead. I couldn't care less about the Rose Bowl, haven't even watched it in I don't know how many years, but I too have stood on a field while a stealth went overhead and it wasn't for a public relations/patriotic flyby either. I will take ice fishing at -40 with my son and my father and driving 15 miles to work on a straight road across a prairie in a white-out, misquitos that black out the sun, a walleye opener sunrise on the Rainy River, a loon that sings me to sleep on weekend evenings, and having my kids grow up with all those oppurtunities like I did instead of worrying if I will be shot on my way to work like I was when I lived in the urban areas. As another poster put it, Joshie will be back in his mid thirties with his wife and kids, and I add, with his tail between his legs. He should be careful the bridges he burns, he'll have to cross a few to get back into Fargo with his U-Haul. Also, watch who you call an idiot, it takes one to know one, and yes, I would rather be at Braly stadium in December, the Betty for an NCC basketball tournament, and anything else that has to do with UND athletic tradition than ANYTHING associated with Michigan in any way, and I enjoy minor league baseball, something I like about the heart of the lesser talented, lesser priviledged player that works his butt off to get where he is and try to get another level higher instead of MLB with the overpaid whiners that have no concept of team and heart. And most of all, I would rather be in Grand Forks than anywhere in the WORLD!

I too would like to add my appreciation for this site and the personalities that maintain it and frequent it. It has added to immensely to my Sioux experience, both in hockey and some in football. This year I got more involved and really enjoy the banter over the issues around Sioux sports and with chat during games. With so many regular posters at the Frozen Four, I kinda felt a little lonely during the MN and DU games, no offense to the folks that were on-line, to me there just seemed so many that weren