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US Marines and Sailors Drink a City Dry
Gene363 Offline
#1 Posted:
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A little recognition is in order for the Marines and Sailors for this major accomplishment.

US Marines and sailors literally drank all the beer in an Iceland city during massive NATO exercise.


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U.S. Marines and sailors reportedly drank an entire Icelandic city dry during NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018.

The exercise, said to be the largest military exercise in decades, drew in military forces from 31 countries and sprawled from the Baltic Sea to Iceland, where some 7,000 American sailors and Marines marched into bars across the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Stars and Stripes reported.

Local blogger Eiríkur Jónsson said that owners of the bars were trying hard to serve up the American soldiers whatever they wanted but “they were fighting an overwhelming force.”

An influx of thirsty American service members over the weekend caused a beer shortage in many of the popular drinking establishments in downtown Reykjavik.

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) October 29, 2018

The demand for cold brews was a four-day event that dried up the beer supply in the city of Reykjavik.


Bartender Ingvar Svendsen of American Bar said, “We had to send people out of the bar to our warehouses to bring beer back as quickly as possible. Other bars ran out of beer altogether.”

As the beer supply dwindled, bar owners were looking to better-stocked bars for help, but the masses were too many and they just couldn’t keep up.

The soldiers also enjoyed some hard liquor in Iceland, but due to its high prices compared to the U.S., Svendsen said some of the liquor remained through the weekend.

Bar owners said they’d never seen anything like it.

The demand required them to call on help from a local brewery in Iceland, Ölgerð Egils Skallagrímssonar, which is referred to as the king in the North, Military Times reported.

The brewery worked overtime to send emergency shipments, ensuring the soldiers had their fill of beer before departing.

“(The Americans) were very polite and friendly, and caused no problems at all. It looked like they were having a lot of fun. It was fun for us too, having them here,” Svendsen said.

The city of 120,000 was able to rest once the service members departed back to Trident Juncture duty.

Trident Juncture is the largest NATO-led exercise held since the Cold War, involving more than 40,000 military service members, 150 aircraft, 70 ships and 10,000 vehicles from 31 countries.


https://t.co/AeYv0ETsLn

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/10/us-marines-sailors-literally-drank-all-the-beer-in-an-iceland-city-during-massive-nato-exercise/
MACS Offline
#2 Posted:
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Lets be fair, here. Is this an opportunity to give credit to the Navy and Marines... or is this an indictment on Icelands ability to keep their shelves stocked?
dstieger Offline
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poor planning or logistics or both
Speyside Offline
#4 Posted:
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Prolly both, drinking a town dry without whistle there is quite impressive.
bgz Offline
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I think it's impressive.
Gene363 Offline
#6 Posted:
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Good points and I throw in the discovery of good beer, at least for some of them.
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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Typical degeneracy being spread by our military. We really have the best and most honorable don’t we? Lmao
Whistlebritches Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
Typical degeneracy being spread by our military. We really have the best and most honorable don’t we? Lmao


I know you're just yanking chains here........but **** off anyway.

Now I am quite positive you're Bloodyfuqtard.
dstieger Offline
#9 Posted:
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+1

Except the bloody part....I'm not convinced. I don't think Bloody could stay anonymous this long. But he is certainly cheery enough
Whistlebritches Offline
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dstieger wrote:
+1

Except the bloody part....I'm not convinced. I don't think Bloody could stay anonymous this long. But he is certainly cheery enough


You are way too kind.......WAY TOO **** ING KIND.
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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How can you think drinking to massive excess is a good thing? You know when you have a large group of men loaded as **** that at least 40% are going to act buffoonish at best, beligierent and destructive at worst.
MACS Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
How can you think drinking to massive excess is a good thing? You know when you have a large group of men loaded as **** that at least 40% are going to act buffoonish at best, beligierent and destructive at worst.


Sorry whistle... bloody would know how to spell belligerent.
Whistlebritches Offline
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MACS wrote:
Sorry whistle... bloody would know how to spell belligerent.


Intentional misdirection
Whistlebritches Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
How can you think drinking to massive excess is a good thing? You know when you have a large group of men loaded as **** that at least 40% are going to act buffoonish at best, beligierent and destructive at worst.


I see reading comprehension isn't in your skill set.

"(The Americans) were very polite and friendly, and caused no problems at all. It looked like they were having a lot of fun. It was fun for us too, having them here,” Svendsen said.
ZRX1200 Offline
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Well his last sentence is pretty classic fireman hose draining POS tard
Burner02 Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
How can you think drinking to massive excess is a good thing? You know when you have a large group of men loaded as **** that at least 40% are going to act buffoonish at best, beligierent and destructive at worst.


Join, serve and you will figure it out.
GhettoNigFabulous Offline
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yeah deserve it for keeping us safe from the dangerous threat of Iceland lmao
Whistlebritches Offline
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GhettoNigFabulous wrote:
yeah deserve it for keeping us safe from the dangerous threat of Iceland lmao


Your personna was interesting and sometimes funny.............of late "like a snowball headed for hell"

"Are the good times really Over" for us GhettoNig?
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