February 02, 2010

... at USC.

Notice who's not sponsoring the event? The Muslim Students Association.

The screening of A Jihad for Love is proudly sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center and Asian Pacific American Student Services, in partnership with the Office of Religious Life, Southern California Indo Americans, the GLBT Student Assembly and Asian Pacific American Student Assembly.

*A link just in case you don't get the reference in the headline.

January 28, 2010

(Brooklyn, New York) James Madison High School has been in the news lately with four female teachers being accused of sexual impropriety.

In December 2009, two babe teachers, Alini Brito, 29, and Cindy Mauro, 33, were allegedly caught naked in a classroom, presumably in full rubby-rubby mode. A week later, another female teacher, Alison Musacchio, 31, was accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a male student.

The most recent occurrence made the news today as a female gym teacher, Lisa Guttilla, 37, was arrested for allegedly feeling up and giving a hickey to a 14-year-old girl. The court complaint alleges that the teacher touched, grabbed, squeezed and kissed the girl's breasts and buttocks.

The fact that James Madison High School is garnering a reputation for libidos gone wild would seem to detract from the fact that the school also has a history of graduating students who became prominent citizens. Examples include Senator Chuck Schumer, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senator Bernie Sanders and songwriter Carole King.

January 21, 2010

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Decorated Marine veteran Nick Popaditch on Tuesday announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 51st Congressional District seat held by Democrat Bob Filner.

Nicknamed “Gunny Pop,” Popaditch served two separate stints in the Marines. He was a tank commander during the Persian Gulf war and honorably discharged in 1992 after six years.

Tiring of civilian life, he rejoined the Marines in 1995. A widely circulated photograph after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 shows the tank commander and platoon sergeant smoking a cigar in front of the statue of Saddam Hussein just before his unit helped tear it down[...]

Filner’s 51st District runs the length of the California-Mexico border and is 48 percent Democratic to 27 percent Republican. The Chula Vista Democrat was re-elected in 2008 with 73 percent of the vote.

h/t Joanne

January 18, 2010

I normally don't post any "sign the petition" stuff but this is important. Seals Matthew McCabe, Jonathon Keefe & Julio Huertas don't deserve this treatment.

If you so choose, sign the petition here

h/t Chip

January 12, 2010

US Senate candidate Scott Brown corrects DNC tool David Gergen during a debate in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts:

January 07, 2010

Is me.

Check out Andrew Breitbarts " Big Journalism" which debuted yesterday.

I especially liked this article by Alicia Colon - Why Won't The MSM cover Islam? What Are They Afraid OF?

heh..

December 19, 2009

(Old Bridge, New Jersey) It sure seems like Christianity is always flying standby on society's freedom of religion itinerary.

A little girl was told by her teacher to put away the Bible during Madison Park Elementary School quiet time since it is inappropriate reading material.

Third-grader Mariah Jordat's tears prompted her outraged mother to call the school. The principal apologized and said it was all a mistake.

Sure, a mistake, that's the ticket.

December 18, 2009

A gym teacher and multiculturalism club advisor at a Las Vegas NV high school, Lori Sublette, is being investigated for potential hate crimes after allegedly denying the Holocaust to her class and prompting anti-Semitic jokes and threats against Jewish students.

Parents are outraged.

December 10, 2009

Alison Musacchio --- Cindy Mauro --- Alini Brito

Then another female teacher, Alison Musacchio (31), was accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a male student.

School authorities are investigating. I'd suggest they also might want to review what they are telling new hires during orientation.

December 09, 2009

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December 05, 2009

Sudden jihad syndrome or just the crazy? I'll remind my readers that the two are not mutually exclusive categories.

In fact, Aaron over at SOFIR has a pretty interesting typology of the "terrorist continuum" in which he posits that the more rational the terrorist the more likely they will be to need organizational help. At the other end of the spectrum are "lone wolves" who are characterized by a high degree of "internal disquiet".

I've no idea if the grad student/murderer named Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani was motivated by Islamic extremism. I throw it out there because it can't be discounted at this point. Especially given that the victim, Professor Richard T. Antoun, specialized in studying religious fundamentalism, Islamic law, and dispute resolution in Islamic societies.

My experience in grad school suggests two things pointing in opposite directions here. On the one hand grad students are often attractive to doctoral advisers based on common interests. An Islamist being attracted to an anthropology professor who studies political Islam is pretty standard stuff.

On the other hand, there were many times in grad school that I wanted to stab my adviser. Or shoot him. Or blow him up.

In fact, it's surprising this kind of thing doesn't happen more often in grad school.

You'll remember that last year a crazy immigrant from China, who thought the police were doing things such as secretly changing his TV channels and turning on his fans, murdered 13 in Binghamton.

Here are some of the details:

Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Binghamton University Professor Richard T. Antoun....

Al-Zahrani, of Main Street, Binghamton, was charged by Binghamton University Police. Al-Zahrani was a cultural anthropology student working on his dissertation, according to the university Web site...

Antoun, who lived on Murray Hill Road in Vestal, was the author of several books, most notably “Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.”

His scholarly interests centered on comparative religion and symbolic systems, the social organization of tradition in Islamic law and ethics, the sociology of dispute with respect to tribal law in the Middle East, local-level politics, and the impact of transnational migration on education, work, and cultural change.”

Thanks to someone for pointing me to the Professional Soldiers' forum.

December 04, 2009

Via FNC

More Than 100 Reportedly Killed in Russian Nightclub Explosion

DEVELOPING: More than 100 people are reportedly dead after an explosion at a Russian nightclub in Perm, according to Reuters.

I am just hearing pyrotechnics are too blame. Whatever, we will soon learn the exact cause.

UPDATE: Yes, apparently pyrotechnics were to blame.

MOSCOW — An explosion and fire apparently caused by pyrotechnics tore through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm early Saturday, killing 101 people, according to news reports.

Regional security minister Igor Orlov said the club had a suspended plastic ceiling that caught fire quickly when ignited by so-called "cold fireworks," which generally are fountain-type displays with lower temperatures than conventional fireworks, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

"The majority of the deaths were the result of burns or gas inhalation," state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's top investigate body, as saying "Along with this, there was a crush at the exit."

State television showed charred bodies lying in rows outside the club amid a light snowfall.

Markin said most of the victims were young people, and that there was no suspicion of a terrorist attack.

Perm, Russia) A pyrotechnic accident in a nightclub killed 139 & wounded 49 according to MOE. According to experts, these fireworks were too large for indoor cafe and more suited to open areas. Fireworks were executed when their were around 200 people inside.

According to an RIA Novosti source in local law enforcement, most people died from carbon monoxide and because of the crush. As a res Mo More..re..ult of panic, many were crushed and those who were trapped inside the club, died, poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Thoughts and prayers to the family and friends affected by this terrible tragedy.

Good on them, too many fake veterans around.

Via FNC

Military impostors, beware: A Web site has been launched to root out fraudulent veterans and fakers in fatigues.

ReportStolenValor.org aims to expose people who fabricate or embellish military accomplishments by making it easier to report suspected Stolen Valor Act offenders to federal authorities and local media outlets.

AMVETS, an organization representing more than 250,000 veterans, will unveil the site Friday.

“As a veteran myself, it’s deeply offensive when someone claims to have served in uniform when they have not,” said Jay Agg, AMVET’s national communication director. “It’s just fundamentally wrong and an affront to all veterans.”

The Web site will also feature a link to the Military Times Hall of Valor, a comprehensive database of more than 26,000 military awards for valor searchable by service member, award and conflict.

October 13, 2009

Great, now the little rugrat is free to terrorize the second grade with a butterknife next year.

What is our country coming to when we let these people loose to commit this havoc among us?

October 12, 2009

Has to be terrorists like this.

I dunno, he just looks shifty-eyed to me.

September 25, 2009

I Scream. We all scream for ice cream.

Or at least about 52% of "us" did.

September 08, 2009

So, I just asked my two older kids what they thought about Obama's speech today. Let me paraphrase my conversation with my oldest daughter.

What?

Oh, I asked my teachers about that after I got to school and they didn't know anything about it.

Um, I Think we have bigger problems here ....

Update: Just in case it wasn't clear from the above -- I'm blogging from iPhone again -- they didn't show the speech because apparantly they didn't know about it. What sand have these teachers been burying their heads in?

I'm much more worried about stupid teachers than Obama's stupid speech.

August 23, 2009

If you're out and about protesting as a bitter racist extremist killbot well-dressed Nazi non-American this summer or beyond, you have to know that to be on the lookout for. There will no doubt be some real cranks in your midst (as well as poseurs, I'd guess).

Some of this nuttiness will come in the guise of populist tones, which are all the rave right now.

A few chaps showed up at an Orlando tea party toting a sign pimping WeAreChange and InfoWars.com. This is an example of something that should be ignored, or even outright mocked.

If you see these folks, ask them whether they think 9-11 was an inside job or not. Then summarily dismiss. Thatisall.

** This has been a public service message from the Jawa Report Anti-Conspiracy Unit. **

August 07, 2009

On this day in 1998 our Embassy's were bombed by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks, linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad brought Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to American attention for the first time, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted list.

Along with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, the Embassy Bombing is one of the major anti-American terrorist attacks that preceded the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Update: To clarify per comments - the 1983 bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon are missing from this wiki. Sucks.

July 30, 2009

(Sacramento, California) Currently, satisfactory grades on the California High School Exit Exam are required to receive a high school diploma, however, that will soon change. Pending legislation will eliminate the exam requirement for special education students. Reportedly, 16,000 special education students fail the exam every year and are denied diplomas.

Consequently, employers interviewing job applicants are in a pickle when seeing prospective new hires with high school diplomas from California. Either they know something, having passed the exit exam, or they received a diploma because they're special.

I suggest that the awarding of diplomas to students who don't pass the exit exam devalues all high school diplomas earned in California.

July 28, 2009

Classic Iowahawk. Who hasn't had this conversation at APSA?

Sometimes it even comes at the hand of self-styled "peers" from D-list state ampersand institutions. One colleague recounted the tale of his restroom confrontation with a Texas A&M professor at a national academic conference last year. After relieving themselves at adjacent urinals, my colleague noticed the oaf leaving hastily for the plenary session and decided to gently point out his hygienic forgetfulness. "A Harvard man washes his hands after urinating," he said. "And an Aggie don't piss all over his hands, asshole," came the reply.

July 15, 2009

(Hamburg, Germany) German education officials have ordered a character called Bruno to be removed from a children's textbook and replaced with a character named Aydan.

Officials in Hamburg were reportedly unhappy at having a character with the same name as Sacha Baron Cohen's Nazi-praising Austrian journalist Bruno.

They also wanted something that would not offend the Muslim community, and so chose the Turkish name Aydan.

June 20, 2009

(San Francisco, California) Based upon a review of more than 30 scientific papers, the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced yesterday that smoking marijuana causes cancer, making it the same as smoking tobacco with regard to health effects.

Therefore, marijuana businesses with more than 10 employees will have to post warning signs telling everyone of the danger.

It's noteworthy that a British study found a direct link between smoking marijuana and psychotic illnesses such as delusions and hallucinations, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, neuroses and suicidal tendencies.

Therefore, according to the sources, smoking marijuana not only causes people to get cancer but it also makes them crazy. The California Environmental Health Hazard Assessment agency might want to consider also including mention of the the potential for psychotic illnesses on the marijuana warning signs.

June 19, 2009

For my new copy of Vicki's Claudio's Book entitled A Pastoral Letter to the Captives, and other works: Selected hostage accounts from the Barbary Pirates era.

And the way things look I'll have plenty of time to read that on Fathers day.

Vicki has followed the plight of hostages for a long time, I'm looking forward to that. I've read a portion of it already and I can't wait to finish. Gee I hope she signed it.

Vicki's book is available online here at Amazon.com.

Also since the post runs a bit short. Blogging may be light till this afternoon. I've so much to get to, but I'll get back to you Jawas ASAP and if you are that bored. Buy Vicki's book!

;)

May 19, 2009

(San Francisco, California) In 2006, the San Francisco School Board voted to phase out the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) curriculum in its schools because of the military's discrimination against homosexuals. The program was due to end in less than a month.

Last week, the JROTC issue was voted on one last time before its scheduled expiration.

On Tuesday night, students who fought for the program waited for more than five hours to see their three-year lesson in real-life civics end in victory.

The students filled the board chambers to capacity as they crowded into seats, on the floor and along walls, some doing homework while they waited for the vote. Others spilled out into the lobby, where a television broadcast the meeting.

Prior to Tuesday's meeting, four board members said they were prepared to reinstate the program. The four who voted to get rid of JROTC three years ago are no longer in office.

May 06, 2009

(Holly, Michigan) A former Holly High School music teacher, Ranee Proper, pleaded guilty to criminal sex with two male students at school and at her home.

Proper accepted a plea deal which dismissed five counts of criminal sex. She resigned her teaching position after rumors started circulating in school.

Proper, a married mother-of-three, will be sentenced next month.

Yesterday's babe teacher in Florida does boy in church parking lot.

Also yesterday, babe teacher in Iowa reportedly paid male student $6,000 to keep his mouth shut about sexual relationship.

May 03, 2009

In the hierarchy of challenges facing educators, "smoking in the boys' room" has achieved less significance as a discipline problem in U.S. schools, being upstaged by the decidedly more sticky issue of sex in the classroom.

A 15-year-old girl was found doing a 17-year-old boy behind a bookshelf in a Fort Myers, Florida, classroom unbeknownst to a paraprofessional supervisor who was surfing the Internet at the time.

I suggest that this incident has possible links, albeit remote, to what "is" is and the fact that President Clinton once said oral sex is not sex. Inquiring minds wonder.

April 07, 2009

Not the whole porn, but 30 minutes of it. Really, who needs more than 30 minutes of a porn?

However you feel about the issue, doesn't this remind you of a bad National Lampoon movie? Fraternity turns to showing porn as way to raise money and stave off evil administrator's attempts to kick them out of their dilapidated house on Greek row.

Inside Charm City:

More than 100 students cheered swashbuckling and sex-crazed pirates in a pornographic film that screened at the University of Maryland on Monday night - a film that, at various points in the past week, state lawmakers and the university tried to suppress.

University administrators, who canceled a planned showing of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge last week after lawmakers threatened to withhold funding, reversed their position Monday and allowed the screening as long as it included an educational component.

Students packed a campus lecture hall, filling every seat, standing along the walls and sitting on the floor, to hear four experts speak on freedom of speech and then watch the first 30 minutes of the hard-core film.

April 02, 2009

If you want to meet me, drop by the University of Maryland this weekend for the viewing of the hardcore version of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge.

But seriously: when did watching porn become a social event? Doesn't that kinda, you know, miss the whole point of porn?

Heartache update: Film canceled after state legislator introduces bill threatening to pull funding from UM if porn shown.

I ask which is more dangerous: film of two people having sex or professors teaching Marxism?

March 13, 2009

Passing along.

It's finally here - today, March 13, 2009, "Brothers At War" opens in seven select theaters including:

* Carmike 15 in Columbus, GA
* Landmark E Street Theater in Washington D.C.
* AMC River East 21 in Chicago, IL
* AMC Cantera 30 in Warrenville, IL
* AMC Shirlington 7 in Arlington, VA
* Carmike 16 in Jacksonville, NC
* Carmike 12 in Fayetteville, NC

Throughout the weekend, members of our production team including Executive Producer Gary Sinise, Director Jake Rademacher, Executive Producer David Scantling and Producer Norman Powell will celebrate the premiere of "Brothers At War" with our supporters and fans at these theaters and show times:

* Friday, March 13 beginning at 6:00 pm - Carmike 15 in Columbus, GA
* Saturday, March 14 beginning at 6:00 pm - Carmike 12 in Fayetteville, NC
* Sunday, March 15 beginning at 4:00 pm - Carmike 16 in Jacksonville, NC

If you live near one of these opening markets, please support our film this weekend. Help spread the message of "Brothers At War" by encouraging your friends and family to do the same.

March 12, 2009

(Charleston, West Virginia) The Charleston Board of Education has announced that the new $13.5 million school to be built at the corner of Kanawha Boulevard and Florida Street will be named West Side Elementary School.

According to community leader Pastor Matthew Watts, the West Side name was the second choice of the students. Their first choice, Barrack Obama Elementary, was eliminated because the naming process unintentionally became a popularity contest. (more)

February 27, 2009

Yes, we know.

Update by Howie: Comments are back on theads created before JSkit effed it all up. The rest are returning an error. Do new posts work? We'll see I guess.

JSkit couldn't find their ass with both hands.

February 26, 2009

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends affected by this terrible tragedy.

A Dutch mayor said Thursday the nine people killed when a Turkish Airlines jet slammed into a field near Amsterdam's main airport are five Turks and four Americans.

Haarlemmermeer mayor Theo Weterings said the names of the victims will not be released until the bodies have been formally identified. It was not immediately clear how long that would take.

February 23, 2009

Article by Aaron Klein at WND

A largely Muslim nation this month is hosting an exhibition highlighting a chapter of world history that has received little public exposure until now: how some Muslims risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

It is well known that Islamic leaders, including the grand mufti of Jerusalem, collaborated with the Nazis in divining anti-Semitic propaganda and recruiting Arab officials to support Adolph Hitler's war against Jews. Many of today's Mideast leaders, such as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are notorious for their outspoken denial of the Holocaust.

Often overlooked, however, are scores of Albanian Muslims who risked their lives to protect the country's Jewish citizens and provided refuge for Jews escaping from neighboring countries. More...

If only others had felt the same....

Update: Garduneh Mehr, in comments, reminds us that:

The government of the father of the late Shah, issued Iranian passports to a number of European Jews to assist them in escaping.

February 18, 2009

Osama bin Laden is in Parachinar, Pakistan. So saith science. And you can't argue with science, can you. Because, you know, it's science!

The entire paper written by Thomas W. Gillespie and John A. Agnew, Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographic Theories and Satellite Imagery, can be read online in PDF format here.

One problem: much of the information used by Gillespie and Agnew is, well, wrong. For instance, Osama bin Laden does not use a dialysis machine on a daily basis. It's a myth built up around faulty intelligence.

Which matters because it means that the geographical parameters of where he could feasibly be open up greatly when bin Laden is not tied to somewhere with, say, electricity.

Ed is spot on in noting that bin Laden is Saudi, so why would Afghani culture matter in any way? He also spent some years in Sudan, with no apparent cultural difficulty. In fact, his old MO was simply to move his Saudi culture to wherever he was by opening camps and surrounding himself with Arabs.

I guess we should be grateful that academics are even worried about bin Laden. But GIS modeling based on social-scientific measures are as surely wrong as they are needlessly complicated.

February 14, 2009

Beverly Eckert, whose husband died on 9/11, was on Continental flight 3407 which crashed near Buffalo. She was flying to Buffalo to celebrate her late husbands birthday.

The crash of Continental Express flight 3407 Thursday night has brought tragedy to the friends and family of all 50 victims.

Relatives of Beverly Eckert, whose husband died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, say she was aboard the Buffalo, N.Y.-bound flight when it crashed in Clarence Center, N.Y.

Eckert was flying to Buffalo to honor what would have been her husband Sean Rooney's 58th birthday. She was scheduled to present a Canisius High School student with a scholarship created in his name.

After the 9/11 attacks, Eckert became a passionate voice for all the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center and co-founded the Voices for September 11th, an advocacy group for survivors and victims' families[...]

After 9/11, Eckert became a vocal lobbyist who pressed Congress to "correct the failings" of that infamous day and pushed for the creation of the 9/11 Commission.

"She was such an important part of all of our work," said Mary Fetchet, another 9/11 family activist, told The Associated Press

In 2004, she tearfully told ABC News it was a calling that fell to her after her husband died[ video]

"I didn't choose this role that came to me," she said. "My husband was killed. I owe my husband, I owe his memory to make something of my life after Sept. 11."

Again, my thoughts and prayers are with Eckerts family and friends as well as those who were also affected by this terrible tragedy

February 11, 2009

Update: Read FPM's interview with Pierre Rehov.
From the channel:

"Do terrorists really believe that they will receive 72 virgins in heaven if they blow themselves among innocent women and children ? Watch those interviews from Pierre Rehov's " Suicide Killer..."

(h/t)Hetz Shahor

February 10, 2009

Hopey One Kenobi™/Dems say - Need a hip replacement? Sorry, you're old and it's waaay too expensive

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)[...]

Hidden Provisions

If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes the Senate in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face similar rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in younger years and sacrifice later.

The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined (90-92, 174-177, 181).

Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”

February 08, 2009

America's generals love to brag about their all-volunteer Army. That's because they tend to overlook Jeffrey Mellinger. He donned his Army uniform for the first time on April 18, 1972, about the time the Nixon Administration was seeking "peace with honor" in Vietnam and The Godfather was opening on the silver screen. Nearly 37 years later, he's still wearing Army green. Mellinger is, by all accounts, the last active-duty draftee serving in the U.S. Army
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"I'm a relic," Mellinger concedes with a self-deprecating laugh. But the last of the nearly 2 million men ordered to serve in the Vietnam-era military before conscription ended in 1973 still impresses 19-year-old soldiers. "Most of them are surprised I'm still breathing, because in their minds I'm older than dirt," the fit 55-year-old says. "But they're even more surprised when they find out this dinosaur can still move around pretty darn quick."