Breitbart:
The Royal Australian Navy was applauded Friday after one of its ships completed an emergency beer run to help resupply a pub besieged by bushfires.
More than a thousand people have been evacuated from the small town of Mallacoota in the state of Victoria, with the military sending landing craft to collect families trapped there since New Year’s Eve.
But after several shuttle runs and with the immediate emergency ebbing the navy delivered much-needed supplies, including a precious cargo of beer to thirsty survivors and bushfire responders, a department of defense spokesperson confirmed to AFP.
“The beer is not occupying unnecessary space on HMAS Choules and essential supplies were not offloaded to accommodate the beer,” the spokesperson added. read more
They might be progressive idiots, but at least they have heart.
The Oz Navy are bottlers!
https://outbackdictionary.com/bottler/ .
Only in Australia.
A gov’t agency that actually does something of value for the citizens!
Wow!
I’m sure that a day without beer in Australia is pretty somber.
izlamo delenda est …
Beer is a good extinguishing agent?
Not only is the Australian Navy a bunch of seafaring drunks, a reliable source tells me that many other Navies he has come across drink on duty. Our Navy and Coast Guard have much higher standards. Small wonder we can kick everyones’ ass.
Grool, the best example being Bob and Doug McKensie in the movie Strang Brew putting out a fire by drinking all the beer in the brewery and putting out the fire by peeing on it. 800 gallons of beer is 6400 pints, that’s a lot of emergency beer.
“Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.”
(Churchill on the Royal Navy)
izlamo delenda est …
Bushfire? There’s a Bushfire? *hic*
grool
JANUARY 11, 2020 AT 7:25 AM
“Beer is a good extinguishing agent?”
…Well, no beer was involved in this particular story, but it DOES demonstrate how that COULD be a true statement.
…my fire company was called out to a large, wooded field behind a Super K-Mart construction project (tells you how long ago THIS was), for a smell of smoke in the area.
There was definitely a smell, but little more.
The area was impenetrable to full-sized vehicles and we didn’t have enough contiguous woods to justify a Gator, so we packed up with Indian tanks (the manufacturer’s name for them, possibly due to their backpack nature, probably illegal to call them that now), and walking into the woods we went.
…after a good deal of sweaty walking and sniffing around, we found a very small burn area making a very large smell, with a cigarette butt neatly centerd on this windless day attesting to the origin of this smoulder.
…well, it was a hot day, Indian tanks are operated vey manually by repeatedly pumping something like a bicycle frame pump, we were well out of sight of the road, it was an all-male crew, and everyone had hydrated because of the day before intitiating the search … so we put the smoulder out with the OTHER hoses we carry as standard male equipment that requires unbuttoning the well-known red suspenders to access.
“Surround and Drown” indeed…
…it was quite effective, too, althogh in the OFIRS report, “Method Of Extinguishment” was listed as “Hand-Portable Equipment”.
…and this after drinking only WATER.
…obviously, the scale of the Oz fires was greater…but so is the capacity of beer to generate extinguishing agents.
…so maybe beer IS “Essential Equipment”, IF native Aussie equipment isn’t significantly smaller that American-made.
…although the ammonia smell probably isn’t good for the koalas, either…
Thank You SNS
You make the wade through the spammers worthwhile…
“The beer is not occupying unnecessary space on HMAS Choules and essential supplies were not offloaded to accommodate the beer,”
Beer IS an essential supply!