Lots of people are unhappy with the constant horn blowing going on at the World Cup. The devices, called vuvuzelas, are a constant soundtrack during the soccer championships. Players seem to hate them, despite the penchant for fans to continually blow ’em. German police say a U.S. Army civilian crossed the line — threatening his horn-blowing neighbors with an ax during Thursday’s Cameroon-Netherlands match because he was so annoyed with the noise. For the entire story, click here.
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[HTML1] Stephen Colbert links yesterday’s two major news events on his show. Come to think of it, I wonder if Gen. David Petreaus, a soccer fan, was able to catch yesterday’s thriller. I’m guessing his schedule might not have allowed him to slink out to a bar down the street from the White House.
A Marine lance corporal fighting in Helmand province fired off a message to the U.S. National Team after Landon Donovan’s strike in the 91st minute of yesterday’s World Cup match. Lance Cpl. Nate Bickel didn’t know if it would reach the team, but it did and many players posted the link to it on their Twitter feeds. Here it is: Name: Lcpl Nate Bickel Subject: Group C Champions Message: So we aren’t sure who to send this to but my unit here in Helmand Province, Afghanistan wanted you to know the Kilo Company 3d Battalion, 3d Marine Regiment couldn’t be…
[HTML1] The English side has had a rough go of it so far during this World Cup, with players sleeping with other players’ ex-wives, the former captain speaking out against the coach, and then, of course, the embarrassing draw to the Yanks. Despite it all, though, the English snuck out of Group C and advanced to the Round of 16 after beating Slovenia 1-0 yesterday. Of course, the U.S. shocked everyone and won the group. Bollocks!!!!! Before the World Cup kicked off their fellow countrymen in uniform taped this inspirational message and sent it off to Rooney and Co.
Maj. Roy Nickerson and a group of soldiers at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan did their best to watch today’s epic U.S.-Algeria World Cup match on TV. But as you might expect, the realities of war zone life did not make it easy. In the end, Nickerson, a member of the 101st Airborne, was able to witness Landon Donovan’s game-winning goal. Sort of. Read his description of the scene at Bagram and you’ll understand: Tonight I was not able to partake in most of the festivities surrounding the US-Algeria World Cup Soccer match. “Festivities” at our location essentially equates to a…
A day before U.S. and England’s national teams square off in the World Cup Saturday, airmen at RAF Mildenhall, England, will challenge a local Mildenhall football club to a match. What they are calling a “World Cup kickoff match,” Mildenhall’s base team will play Mildenhall Town FC at 6 p.m. on June 11. The teams will play only two 15-minute halves, which sounds more like a dog-and-pony-show than an actual match. A standard half lasts 45 minutes, but organizers have allowed for interviews and photo opportunities with the teams an hour before the game. Tech Sgt. Kevin Wallace, one of…
Since ESPN has deployed senior anchor Bob Ley and invested millions to make sure Americans don’t continue the time-honored tradition of ignoring soccer at least until the World Cup passes, we here at After Action will drink the Kool-Aid and try to find a couple military connections to the festivities down in South Africa. Still searching for that inevitable U.S. military member connected to the U.S. national team or the pre-game speech by a Green Beret. But until then, we will turn our attention across the pond to some comical photos of the Portugal national team including fancy boy (and…
Is your normal job taking up the time you could be using to practice your penalty kicks? Are you working so much at your assignment in the U.S. that you can’t learn new jujitsu moves? Well break out of that rut and get yourself to the world’s new sportsman’s paradise — Iraq! Iraq is so placid these days that American troops stationed there have plenty of time to just cool out, according to this story in USA Today. Rather than loading up the vehicles and going out to crush some skulls, today’s forces sound like college freshmen taking eight credit…
