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| US troops sent Reykjavik's bars into ‘state of emergency’ after drinking all their beer |
| 2018-10-30 |
| [RT] It was only supposed to be a pit stop, but some 7,000 US troops taking part in mass NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... drills nonetheless managed to deplete some bars and restaurants, in Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, of all their beer, according to local media. The troops stopped in Iceland over the weekend while on their way to Sweden and Finland for a 300,000-strong NATO exercise. In total, some 50,000 of the forces participating are US troops. But, apparently unconcerned about moderating their intake of booze just before Trident Juncture 18, thought to be NATO’s biggest military exercise since the Cold War, the troops plunged several bars in downtown Reykjavik into a state of emergency as they went nuts on their beer. US soldiers were not satisfied with just any beer and specifically requested the local one. So, Brewery Olgerð Egils Skallagrimssonar, which makes the popular Icelandic Gull, had to send emergency supplies to various bars, according to local news site Visir. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 I've drank with Pan. once we ended up in Makati... |
| Posted by: 746 2018-10-30 23:23 |
| #9 I tried Gull when I was in Iceland...it was meh. On par with coors. They need to import some good german brewmasters or maybe talk to Shiner if they prefer lighter beers. I don't remember them drinking alot of beer anyway. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-10-30 19:13 |
| #8 I'm so proud! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-10-30 15:24 |
| #7 You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. -- Frank Zappa |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-10-30 12:30 |
| #6 Iceland ended their prohibition about the same time as the US -but not for beer. Beer was illegal up to the 1980s. Production remained very small - and low quality. Things began to turn around with the craft beer trend but production still lags. They actually had to relearn how to make beer. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2018-10-30 12:04 |
| #5 Logistics problem? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-10-30 01:35 |
| #4 During World War 2 an Army medic on a Pacific island radioed " I've got a bad case of Beri-Beri. What should I do ? , " Give it to the Marines. They'll drink anything. " |
| Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 2018-10-30 01:29 |
| #3 They weren't troops, they were sailors and marines. There's a difference. Keep up the traditions, shipmates! |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-10-30 00:36 |
| #2 I remember the time when Pan and I drank the hotel bar out of JD. I think it was JD. It might have been Pan. We were in a bar. It might have been a hotel, or we slept on the floor. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-30 00:17 |
| #1 Iceland apparently lacks a G2 and a G4. Too bad. How did they support Keflavik, back in the day? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2018-10-30 00:15 |