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McFrench fries & Coke n’roll

Jun 8

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in American, C1, DCL, FCE, Food, FUN, General English, LISTEN, MEDIC, Money, PLS 3 / SLP 3, TOEFL, TOEIC, USA | No Comments

“Everything’s bigger in America” – Morgan Spurlock’s movie: SUPER SIZE ME

About junk food, and medical English:

Tags: ache, Alcoholic, America, American, Big, Binge, Blood sample, Body, Bread, Burger, Calorie, Calories, Cancer, Cardiologist, Check, Cheese, Chef, Chest, Chicken, Children, Chips, Cholesterol, Coke, Companies, Cook, Cooking, Coronary, Cuisine, Diabetes, Disease, Documentary, Eat, Egg, Exam, Exercise, Fast food, Fat, Fitness, Flavor, Flavour, Food, Freaky, French fries, Gastro, Gastroenterologist, General English, General Practitioner, Genetically, GLOBAL, Glucose, GMO, Golden Arches, GP, Healthy, Heart, Heartburn, Hospital, Hut, Ice cream, Illness, Industry, Interview, Judge, Junk, Kidney, Kids, Large, LISTEN, Liver, Lose, Lure, Mac, McDonald, McRonald, Meal, Meat, MEDIC, Medical, Medium, Modified, Morgan Spurlock, Movie, Muffin, New-York, New-Yorker, Nutrition, Obese, Obesity, Organic, Overweighed, Pain, Patient, Pedometer, Pizza, Potatoes, Pounder, Put on, Queue, Relax, Salad, Shack, Signs, Smoking, Soda, Stairs, Stomach, SUE, Super size, Supersize, Supervision, Surgeon, Surgery, Surgical, Taco Bell, Tobacco, Trial, Triglyceride, U.S., U.S.A., Unhealthy, US, USA, Vegetables, Vending machine, Weight, Wendy's, West Virginia, Workout

Up to 1,077 U.S. military bases all over the world !

Apr 24

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in American, C1, GLOBAL, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, LISTEN, Marshall Isl., Misc., PLS 4 / SLP 4, USA | No Comments

How many of them are there, the U.S. taxpayers may wonder? According to this video, there could be up to 1,077 American military compounds all over the world…

Tags: American, BASES, Budget, CHINA, Compound, Count, Expenditures, Expenses, Gitmo, Guantanamo, JAPAN, Kirghizstan, LISTEN, Marshall Islands, Might, Military, NEWS, Noise, Okinawa, Pentagon, PLS 4444, Pollution, Power, Self-defense, Taxpayers, U.S., US, US & DoD, USA, USAF, Video, World

Libya – Obama approves use of drones; McCain in Benghazi

Apr 23

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in AGM-114, American, C1, HOT SPOTS, Interviews, Libya, Libyan no-fly zone, LISTEN, MQ-1, PLS 4 / SLP 4, USA | No Comments

Tags: AFRICA, AGM-114, Ambassador, American, Anti-tank, Diplomacy, Drones-UAVs, Foreign affairs, Gaddafi, Gadhafi, Hellfire, Heroes, Hospital, Humanitarian, Interests, Interview, John Bolton, John McCain, Libya, Libyan, LISTEN, Military, Missiles, NEWS, Obama, Odyssey Dawn, OTAN - NATO, PLS 4444, Predator, President, Rebels, Senator, Unified Protector, USA, Video, Wounded

AIRMAN magazine – March-April 2011

Apr 20

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in C1, Curtiss JN, IAAFA, INCOA, Interviews, Magazines, MEDIC, PLS 4 / SLP 4, READ, Reserve, Troops, US & DoD, USA, USAF, Veterans, WOMEN, WW1, WW2 | No Comments

This month’s Airman – US Air Force magazine :

Washington trip gives veterans a chance to pay their respects and receive appreciation.
Rodeo association allows military people to get in touch with their inner cowboy or cowgirl.
A combat photographer puts herself on the other side of the lens as she fights cancer.
Andrews lieutenant spends her free time as a Washington Redskins cheerleader.
International school at Lackland AFB brings military people and cultures together.
Intense course prepares Airmen for Army Ranger school.
Photographers share their views from Joint Forcible Entry Exercise 10-6.

Click on the cover below to read the magazine – www.af.mil courtesy:

USAF Airman magazine March-April 2011 cover

Tags: A-10, AFB, AIRCRAFT, Airman, Andrews, Army Ranger, Association, Breast, Cadets, Camouflage, Cancer, Cheerleader, Chemo, Chemotherapy, Chuck, Cowboy, Cowgirl, Creech, Curtiss, F-15E, Fight, Football, Green Flag, Hair, Honor, IAAFA, INCOA, Infusion, Inter-American, Jenny, JFEX, JN-4, Katherine Stinson, Lackland, LANTIRN, Magazine, MEDIC, Medical, Memorial, Mildred McDowell, NCO, Nellis, NEWS, NFL, PAFRA, PHOTOS, PLS 4444, Pope, POW, PRT, Ranger, RANKS, READ, Redskins, Remember, Reserve, Rodeo, Students, Super Bowl, Tab, Thunderbolt II, Treatment, Uniform, US & DoD, USA, USAF, USAFA, Veterans, Washington D.C., Washington Redskins, WOMEN, World War, WW2, WWII, X-1, XS-1, Yeager, Zabul

Assessing expenses allocated to operations in Libya

Apr 13

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in American, C1, F-15, HOT SPOTS, Humanitarian, Libya, Libyan no-fly zone, LISTEN, Money, PLS 4 / SLP 4, Tomahawk, USA | No Comments

As far as Odissey Dawn is concerned, the cost of missiles launched would nearly reach $ 300,000,000 according to the Pentagon.

Almost 200 Tomahawks – almost $ 1.5 million each
Operating a fighter jet – $ 10,000 an hour
Almost 500 one-ton warheads – $ 40,000 each
One downed F-15 – $ 60 million
A limited no-fly zone – $ 30 to 100 million a week
Arming the rebels – up to $ 100 billion a year!
Humanitarian aid – $ 25 million so far
Rebuilding Libya – not mentioned

Watch the video:

Special thanks to Thierry Hermas for proofreading as I misunderstood the first figure

Tags: American, Armament, Arming, Arms, Costs, Cruise missile, Dollars, Downed, Economic, Expenditures, F-15, FIGHTER aircraft, HOT SPOTS, Humanitarian, Involvement, Libya, Libyan, LISTEN, Military, Missiles, Money, No-fly zone, Odissey Dawn, Pentagon, PLS 4444, Price tag, Rebels, Rebuilding, Situation, Spending, Tax-payers, Tomahawk, U.S., US, USA, USAF, Video, Wallet, Warheads, Weaponry

Nations backing the no-fly zone & suppressing Gaddafi’s air defenses

Mar 20

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in Aeronautica Militare, American, Armée de l'Air, C1, Canada, CH-46 / CH 113, CV-22, E-3, EdA, F-16, France, Harrier, Harrier AV-8B, HH-60, HOT SPOTS, Italy, J3 Operations, Jordan, Libya, Libyan AF, Libyan no-fly zone, LISTEN, M-346, Mirage 2000, Misc., MQ-1, NATO, Pilots, PLS 4 / SLP 4, Qatar, Qatari AF, R91 Charles de Gaulle, RAF, Rafale, RCAF, S-125/SA-3, S-200/SA-5, S-75/SA-2/V-750, Satellites, Saudi Arabia, SCALP, Spain, Tomahawk, Tornado, UAE, UAEAF, UK, USA, USAF, V-22 | No Comments

According to the BBC, RAF Tornado warplanes would have launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles (equivalent to French MBDA SCALP) on Libya to destroy Gaddafi’s military assets. The Storm Shadows punch holes in runways, radar facilities, and bunkers thanks to their BROACH warheads. (BROACH means Bomb Royal Ordnance Augmented CHarge)

The French aircraft – Mirage 2000, and Rafale – seem to have carried out missions over Libya before SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) and flew under the threat of Gadhafi’s GBADs (Ground Based Air Defenses). The UAE and the Qatari air forces could be committed to Operation Odyssey Dawn. Here is the situation according to CNN:

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