Mood:  smelly
Topic: The US Military
You can always count on one thing when you get the Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force together in a big war . . . they like to talk trash about the other services. Even if they can't see each other and speak face to face, they will scribble graffiti anywhere they can to make sure the other services know who's the best.

When I recently spent the evening at Camp Stryker, which is a large tent city near the Baghdad International Airport, I went to a port-a-john and what did I see, graffiti written by Marines and army soldiers. The graffiti covered the whole port-o-john. Some of it was humorous and some of it was crude and some of it didn't make any sense at all. One of friends even mused that these scribbles could be a form of modern free-verse poetry.

And in other news . . . the GAO recently determined that the U.S. military doesn't have an adequate method for tacking the money spent in Iraq.