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Original Message The Brits, OMG the Brits..... Why in the world they go out of their way to complicate the most simple of things I'll never understand! I spent several years being "politely" insulted and put down by the British Army pilots in charge of the program I was working at overseas, simply for being an "American." As I was leaving the program I said to the most arrogant American hater among them, "I used to wonder how the British lost a worldwide empire and needed U.S. help getting bailed out of two world wars, but I don't anymore." He was beside himslef that an "American" had put England down! He actually said to me, "What exactly do you mean by that?" I replied, "you think you're smarter than me, you figure it out!" To be fair, many of the Brits I worked were amazing folks and I count them among some of my best friends to this day. Oh, and they were just as disappointed with the program "leadership" (insert sarcasim here) as I was. Also, what that arrogant Brit didn't seem to get was I wasn't insulting England. I've been there a number of times and it's a wonderful place. I was insulting the British military's lack of sommon sense and flexability!
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