Geeks get Air Force medal for \"saving\" Star Trek

From Save Enterprise.com

You have got to be kidding Morbo.

I have no clever retort for this. Too weird.

Ah, my tax dollars at work... You know if it was almost any other show I would say isn''t that nice and just keep going... but Enterprise? As much as like to applaud anything in HD that show just has got to go.

Oh this is fantastic - thanks for the link - I have some Air Force Officers here who are going to get a bit of a laugh. Remember this is the service where you get a medal for boot camp attendance. By the way these guys are also changing uniforms to powder blue camouflage pattern. Anyhow thanks again. This is great.

By the way these guys are also changing uniforms to powder blue camouflage pattern.

Whatever happened to ""Don''t ask, don''t tell?""

I dont think ""Dont ask dont tell"" applies to the Chair Force. Although, they live really well and have great golf courses. My Air Farce buds here got all spun up about this and say it''sa hoax. Either way it was fun to watch them get all hot and bothered. Good stuff.

This honestly smacks of a hoax. I can''t think of a single person in the military that I know that watches any Star Trek let alone that POS.

Actually remarkably enough - Sci-Fi shows and the military have a close relationship, especially Star Trek. The Spach Shuttle Enterprise was named in kind of an homage to the show. Of course there have been ties to other platforms - the aircraft carrier enterprise etc..., but the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC even had a big exhibit which illustrated some of the ties dating all the way back to the original Space Program. However that being said I have heard that the show is pants and I doubt that this is real although I hope it is just so I can keep poking my buddies in the eye over here about it.

the aircraft carrier enterprise etc.

It''s been a tradition going back to the British Navy to name your flagship the Enterprise. That''s why the ship in Star Trek was named Enterprise. The relationship is Navy to Star Trek not the other way around.

Though I do find it hard to believe there''s nobody in the military that doesn''t watch one of the good Trek shows.

As a Naval Officer, albeit a Yank as my British friends here would say you are quite right Pyro. The U.S. Navy has long drawn its traditions from the Royal Navy. But my understanding,and I may be wrong - it has been awhile, but the designers tipped their hats to Roddenberry and his show with the name Enterprise. As for the US Navy - Enterprise is a one of a kind Aircraft Carrier - there was never another of that class. It is a model though to which the Nimitz class draws a significant amount of design decisions from.

I stand corrected, I guess it''s a little of both. I knew the Shuttle had the Star Trek influence though, I thought they had Roddenberry there when the Shuttle launched.

I think your right as well. Now I am getting older so I dont remember so well :), but I think they mentioned that in this exhibit thing I went to. I will try and find out if it is a hoax - a friend of mine has contacts with the Chief of Staff and was mortally offended by the article (mwuhahhaha) so has emailed back home to verify the story. Even if a hoax - will be quite fun while it lasted.

I really hope it''s a hoax. It makes a mockery out of the medals that people actually busted their asses for in the military.

Hey Spy, what unit are you with over there?

"Sanjuro" wrote:

I really hope it''s a hoax. It makes a mockery out of the medals that people actually busted their asses for in the military.

Hey Spy, what unit are you with over there?

I am with the Iraq Survey Group. I am temporarily (6 months) detached from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to support the ISG. We are the folks who have the charter on the WMD hunt among many other things.

"SpyNavy" wrote:

We are the folks who have the charter on the WMD hunt among many other things.

Find me a four-leafed clover, too, while you''re at it

I was over there for the war itself, Jan-June of last year with the First Marine Expeditionary Force, and I know exactly how freaking hot you are right now. I feel you, bro. I feel you.

I MEF is back. Been doing some work with them in the Sunni Triangle. It''s too hot for grass to grow let alone clover - 115 degrees today I think. Maybe I will bring you back some unexploded ordnance from yesterday''s visit by Mohammed the mortar man :).

Yeah, I know they''re back. I EAS''ed just in time to escape that tour. If you run into any of the DASC ground guys from Marine Air Support Squadron-3, tell ''em Fernando said hi.

Will do. Thanks for the service. I went to MCT at Camp Devil Dog moons ago and went to Quantico for the Officer version. Hope you are enjoying CIVLANTFLT :).

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"SpyNavy" wrote:

Will do. Thanks for the service. I went to MCT at Camp Devil Dog moons ago and went to Quantico for the Officer version. Hope you are enjoying CIVLANTFLT :).

Thanks, bro. And I''m in CIVPACFLT anyway, Squidley

Anytime Jarhead.