Originally published at: US Army apologizes for invading a cooking oil factory in Bulgaria | Boing Boing
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This is an Onion story, right? Please?
Nah, just an excessively “well-oiled” war machine doin’ its thing.
So this was a training mission where they raided a building next to the base they were supposed to be “raiding”?
The police do that all the time. Only, I expect someone to catch a lot of hell in the military, and they just shrug it off with the police.
Yeah, and so was this:
Storming is a lot less dramatic than I expected, were they playing hide and seek?
America will always go to war for oil. Nobody is safe, apparently.
Yeah, that was surprisingly lacklustre for supposed special forces
Someone is going to get their ass deep-fried. Would they like fries with that?
Slippery buggers, aren’t they (the US Army PR dept).
And headline is not correct - it was a factory making machinery for producing oil, not an actual oil-producing factory. You say so in the text, @frauenfelder but the headline has lost the ‘machine’ word.
(And comments link in post goes straight back to post, Had to get here via BBS @orenwolf)
You are quite right, but then our silly, oily jokes wouldn’t flow so thickly and fragrantly, would they now?
You’re right. Slippery things, facts.
US Army apologizes for invading
Iraq? Afghanistan? Grenada? Panama? Vietnam?
a cooking oil factory
Oh
Almost looks like a personal mission: The dud who effed me up works here!
Like fries, it won’t be heart healthy. I am sure that olive oil will be a blend, sold as 100% pure extra virgin.
The Army was certain it was a butter factory.
I think they only make the machinery used to produce olive oil, although – yes – Bulgarian-made olive oil sounds pretty dicey, and care should be taken even when buying VO from even Greece, Spain, or Italy. (My acid test for the primo stuff: Oil is green, and peppery on the tongue.)
No war for oil… or oil pressing machines.
173rd airborne isn’t a special forces unit.
it is, however, the same unit in this video https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/apr/22/us-army-humvees-germany-airdrop-fail-video