At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

And. Oh well...se la guerre, eh?

Morning Air attack on Bien Hoa , at 61,70

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-51 Sonia x 17

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 21

Don't know about that but "C'est la guerre!" - Oui! ...eh?

[Cap Mandrake]

Yes, thank you. I (think) mine was in Spanglofrancais

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yes, thank you. I mine was in Spanglofrancais

Must be from the Basque region . . .

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Same juicy AF bait trick at Terapo (NW of Port Moresby). Move in some medium bommbers with NO fighters..wait for the recon flight then send in the fighters. [;)]

Morning Air attack on Terapo , at 96,127

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 8 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 27

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 6 destroyed, 3 damaged
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 4

Reminds of a trick they played in North Africa. They would build a dummy airfield and completly black it out at night and leave a couple of lights on at the real one. The fake one would get bombed.[8D]

[Cap Mandrake]

*************January 16, 1943(e)*************

New Guinea/Sundas: Allies reinforcing and resupplying Dobo, Kai-elanden, and Taberfane. Covered by a cruiser force and PT boats. No air or surface attacks. Boela and Sorong getting reinforced by air and submarine. 181st RCT flying in to Boela with orders to walk over to Ambon. It's a long walk.

[Cap Mandrake]

PI: Japs bomb Clark AF again. Runway is about 50% destroyed. We are not defending with fighters now. On Mindanao we shoot down a couple of Nicks. Supplies inbound to Mindanao via the Iwo Jima/Marshalls gap. So far so good.

[Cap Mandrake]

SE Asia: Breakdown in supply in Siam. I think the new ground units there are sucking up the supply. Bien Hoa gets bombed again.

China: We shoot down some Nates on sweep duty over Chungking. Evidentarry arr of good pranes ovah in Phirrpipines.

[Cap Mandrake]

Solomons: Lunga falls. Man, that was a nasty fight. We lost round 1 then lost round 2. they will lose more ground troops but we lost some ships too. 5th and 22nd Marine Regt and an Army Rgt took a goodly amount of disablement yesterday.

Ground combat at Lunga (114,138)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 21330 troops, 341 guns, 278 vehicles, Assault Value = 794

Defending force 8817 troops, 124 guns, 89 vehicles, Assault Value = 101

Allied adjusted assault: 219

Japanese adjusted defense: 55

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied forces CAPTURE Lunga !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1475 casualties reported
Squads: 46 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 64 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 53 (46 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Vehicles lost 52 (52 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
292 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 27 disabled

Assaulting units:
102nd Cmbt Engineer Regiment
22nd Marine Regiment
5th Marine Regiment
2nd Marine Division
1st USMC Tank Battalion
53rd (Sep) Infantry Regiment
164th Infantry Regiment
14th NZ Brigade
226th Field Artillery Battalion
249th Field Artillery Battalion
4th Field Artillery Battalion
225th Field Artillery Battalion
97th Field Artillery Battalion
181st Field Artillery Battalion
168th Field Artillery Battalion
1st Pioneer Battalion

Defending units:
41st Naval Guard Unit
10th Garrison Unit
86th Naval Guard Unit
14th Naval Guard Unit
Yokosuka 5th SNLF /1
Sasebo 5th SNLF
Maizuru 3rd SNLF /1
3rd Mortar Battalion
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
17th JAAF AF Bn /1
III/19th Naval Guard Unit
18th Div /1

[Cap Mandrake]

So I am on call Saturday and the electronic medical record is FUBAR and nobody is getting their prescriptions sent in electronically so I spend 4 hrs making f****** phone calls on 12 doctors Rx's and I can't even drive to the hospital without getting 10 f****** phone calls so I get off the freeway to use the live EMR and my f****** office door is closed so I walk over to the urgent care (most of the people there I have known at least for a decade AND I have my hospital badge on) so I grab myself 20 ml of Mylanta and sit down to make some f****** phone calls and use the EMR. 40 minutes later I work through the calls and head over to the hospital (minus the heartburn).....and then on Monday an adminstrator comes down and gives me shit over the f***** Mylanta and using the f****** wall outlets to charge my f****** phone which I need to answer the f****** phone calls because their f****** electronic record is not working.

I gave her a quarter for the Mylanta and told her to fix her f****** computer system. I'm sending a 4 figure bill for wasting my time on call AND I am going to make a quality complaint because it absolutely impaired patient care. You know what the plan is when the system is malfunctioning? They send us a f****** email on the system that is not working? Nice f****** plan! A f****** public school system 3rd grader could do better.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So I am on call Saturday and the electronic medical record is FUBAR and nobody is getting their prescriptions sent in electronically so I spend 4 hrs making f****** phone calls on 12 doctors Rx's and I can't even drive to the hospital without getting 10 f****** phone calls so I get off the freeway to use the live EMR and my f****** office door is closed so I walk over to the urgent care (most of the people there I have known at least for a decade AND I have my hospital badge on) so I grab myself 20 ml of Mylanta and sit down to make some f****** phone calls and use the EMR. 40 minutes later I work through the calls and head over to the hospital (minus the heartburn).....and then on Monday an adminstrator comes down and gives me shit over the f***** Mylanta and using the f****** wall outlets to charge my f****** phone which I need to answer the f****** phone calls because their f****** electronic record is not working.

I gave her a quarter for the Mylanta and told her to fix her f****** computer system. I'm sending a 4 figure bill for wasting my time on call AND I am going to make a quality complaint because it absolutely impaired patient care. You know what the plan is when the system is malfunctioning? They send us a f****** email on the system that is not working? Nice f****** plan! A f****** public school system 3rd grader could do better.

Congratulations! Your post is only 239 obscenities behind Pulp Fiction! And you did it without Samuel L! [:D]

FYI, I understand that most hospital systems still use MUMPS, a 50 year old computer language.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

PI: Japs bomb Clark AF again. Runway is about 50% destroyed. We are not defending with fighters now. On Mindanao we shoot down a couple of Nicks. Supplies inbound to Mindanao via the Iwo Jima/Marshalls gap. So far so good.

'So far, so good' is what the man said when he fell off a very tall building.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

PI: Japs bomb Clark AF again. Runway is about 50% destroyed. We are not defending with fighters now. On Mindanao we shoot down a couple of Nicks. Supplies inbound to Mindanao via the Iwo Jima/Marshalls gap. So far so good.

'So far, so good' is what the man said when he fell off a very tall building.

It is not the fall, it is that sudden stop at the end.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So I am on call Saturday and the electronic medical record is FUBAR and nobody is getting their prescriptions sent in electronically so I spend 4 hrs making f****** phone calls on 12 doctors Rx's and I can't even drive to the hospital without getting 10 f****** phone calls so I get off the freeway to use the live EMR and my f****** office door is closed so I walk over to the urgent care (most of the people there I have known at least for a decade AND I have my hospital badge on) so I grab myself 20 ml of Mylanta and sit down to make some f****** phone calls and use the EMR. 40 minutes later I work through the calls and head over to the hospital (minus the heartburn).....and then on Monday an adminstrator comes down and gives me shit over the f***** Mylanta and using the f****** wall outlets to charge my f****** phone which I need to answer the f****** phone calls because their f****** electronic record is not working.

I gave her a quarter for the Mylanta and told her to fix her f****** computer system. I'm sending a 4 figure bill for wasting my time on call AND I am going to make a quality complaint because it absolutely impaired patient care. You know what the plan is when the system is malfunctioning? They send us a f****** email on the system that is not working? Nice f****** plan! A f****** public school system 3rd grader could do better.

Learn to call Bingo without using a sound system and/or have a Drill Sergeant teach you how to project you voice. Then let the entire hospital know how stupid the admnistrator is. Even the hard of hearing should hear you.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So I am on call Saturday and the electronic medical record is FUBAR and nobody is getting their prescriptions sent in electronically so I spend 4 hrs making f****** phone calls on 12 doctors Rx's and I can't even drive to the hospital without getting 10 f****** phone calls so I get off the freeway to use the live EMR and my f****** office door is closed so I walk over to the urgent care (most of the people there I have known at least for a decade AND I have my hospital badge on) so I grab myself 20 ml of Mylanta and sit down to make some f****** phone calls and use the EMR. 40 minutes later I work through the calls and head over to the hospital (minus the heartburn).....and then on Monday an adminstrator comes down and gives me shit over the f***** Mylanta and using the f****** wall outlets to charge my f****** phone which I need to answer the f****** phone calls because their f****** electronic record is not working.

I gave her a quarter for the Mylanta and told her to fix her f****** computer system. I'm sending a 4 figure bill for wasting my time on call AND I am going to make a quality complaint because it absolutely impaired patient care. You know what the plan is when the system is malfunctioning? They send us a f****** email on the system that is not working? Nice f****** plan! A f****** public school system 3rd grader could do better.

Can you self-report the hospital's poor patient care to Medicare/Medicaid? Whistleblower cases can be very lucrative. [8D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Nah, it's a medical group not hospital thing.

The thing that frosts me the most is the stupid generic mylanta. I probably used about 1.5 cents worth. I was President of the organization for 8 years and signed a bunch of big-ass checks and paid for dozens of 400 guest Christmas parties and some chowderhead complaints about generic mylanta.

Next year no Salsa DJ. I will advocate for a Lawrence Welk cover band.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Nah, it's a medical group not hospital thing.

The thing that frosts me the most is the stupid generic mylanta. I probably used about 1.5 cents worth. I was President of the organization for 8 years and signed a bunch of big-ass checks and paid for dozens of 400 guest Christmas parties and some chowderhead complaints about generic mylanta.

Next year no Salsa DJ. I will advocate for a Lawrence Welk cover band.

It will help if you put that admin's name on the memo announcing the party cutbacks as, say, "in line with Frau Blucher's program..."

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Nah, it's a medical group not hospital thing.

The thing that frosts me the most is the stupid generic mylanta. I probably used about 1.5 cents worth. I was President of the organization for 8 years and signed a bunch of big-ass checks and paid for dozens of 400 guest Christmas parties and some chowderhead complaints about generic mylanta.

Next year no Salsa DJ. I will advocate for a Lawrence Welk cover band.

It will help if you put that admin's name on the memo announcing the party cutbacks as, say, "in line with Frau Blucher's program..."

Lawrence Welk! [:D][:D]
Or you could put ex-lax in the punch.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Nah, it's a medical group not hospital thing.

The thing that frosts me the most is the stupid generic mylanta. I probably used about 1.5 cents worth. I was President of the organization for 8 years and signed a bunch of big-ass checks and paid for dozens of 400 guest Christmas parties and some chowderhead complaints about generic mylanta.

Next year no Salsa DJ. I will advocate for a Lawrence Welk cover band.

It will help if you put that admin's name on the memo announcing the party cutbacks as, say, "in line with Frau Blucher's program..."

Lawrence Welk! [:D][:D]
Or you could put ex-lax in the punch.

Make her fudge brownies with ex-lax instead of chocolate. One of my step-mother's classmates did that for the teacher. The teacher never picked on her again for her lack of stature. The girl never got into trouble for doing that. Of course, her daddy was the chief of police who was also short.

[Cap Mandrake]

Yes, same thing happened to one of the General MacArthur's in From Here, Well It SEEMS Like an Eternity (I think)

And the poor bastard was aloft in a B-25 at the time. Nasty business. Bad news for the tail gunner too.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Next year no Salsa DJ.

Three words: Polka! Polka! Polka!