Another YGTBSM…

Lawyers…

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The United Seamen’s Service, sometimes abbreviated as the USS, is a non-profit, federally chartered organization founded in 1942 to promote the welfare of American seafarers and their dependents, seafarers of all nations, US government military and civilian personnel, and other persons engaged in the maritime industry.

Since its inception, the USS has provided services overseas for American and international seafarers. USS’s network of worldwide port centers offers seafarers two types of services:

  1. Building-centered services which provide recreation, communications, counseling, food, beverages and gift shop and health articles; and outreach programs which bring USS services to seafarers on shipboard, in hospital or detention. Services include repatriation, hospital visits, detention serviceshelping seafarers in prison, legal assistance and communications services, with overseas phone, fax and mail facilities at the USS centers.
  2. Ship-visiting and library services include staff visits to ships in port with information on local attractions, customs and culture and other required assistance. Fresh reading material, supplied by the USS affiliated American Merchant Marine Library Association, are brought to restock the ship’s library.

There are currently 7 port centers open: Bremerhaven, Germany; Casablanca, Morocco; Diego Garcia, B.I.O.T.; Guam, M.I.; Naha, Okinawa,Japan; Pusan, Korea; and Yokohama, Japan. Many other centers existed during the years of World War II and thereafter, including centers in Naples and Genoa, Italy; Bandar Mahshahr, Iran; Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam; Alexandria, Egypt and Manila, Philippines.

Note that Guam is now scratched out… Thanks to damn lawyers…

It appears a ‘new’ lawyer has reviewed the governing documents and has determined that Guam does NOT qualify as being overseas!!!

Granted Guam is a US Territory, and THAT is what the new lawyer is basing his ruling on…

Teh stoopid is just overflowing with this one…

If you’ve never been to one, it’s a little haven of ‘America’ far from home, and provides a place to get a decent meal at a decent price.  And beer…

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So many beers, so little time… sigh…

Comments

Another YGTBSM… — 16 Comments

  1. Guam FEELS like overseas. So does Saipan. So does Puerto Rico for that matter. The fact that they use US currency puts them in the same box as Panama, which is not “ours” but uses US currency. The Canal Zone was “ours” at one point until the Democratic Party President gave it away.

    Maybe the bylaws need to be changed to reflect how it feels rather than the legal status of things. Samoa doesn’t feel like the US either. And that’s the point, isn’t it?

  2. If Guam isn’t overseas then let’s post all the damn lawyers there. After all, it would just be a domestic transfer.

  3. I don’t know what the problem is; it’s off the coast of California, isn’t it? (WAY off, but I digress…)

    D’oh!

  4. Busybodies just can’t stand to see other people having a good time.

  5. *insert required snickering about the name here*

    In regard’s to Service Men’s clubs, the finest, bestest most tasty beer I ever had was the rather large draught Sam Adam’s at the Hartsfield USO lounge after flying down from Walter Reed after Purple Heart #2.

  6. “seaman” makes me giggle. I know I’m immature. Sigh. Damn lawyers…you know what they say about those peeps…

  7. I used to frequent the Seaman’s club in Naples back in 59-62. It was probably the same one there since WWII. Then we’d go to the Londres Hotel and proceed to get hammered or up to the NSA (Naval Services Admin.) hill to go to Lucky Luciano’s bar, “The Hieneken”.

  8. Major Rufus Cobb: Paragraph: If we are ever to have law and order in the West, the first thing we gotta do is take out all the lawyers and shoot ’em down like dogs.
    From the movie Jessie James 1939

  9. My parent’s Church – or my parents themselves, I don’t really know which – had an affiliation with the Scandinavian Seaman’s Mission up in the Castro, in San Francisco. They were a bunch of Lutherans though, as befits most of the Scandinavians merchantmen – except the off-shoot schism-cult Free Methodists etc.
    But that particular area has changed a LOT since I was a kid when we last visited, and the Mission moved or was shut-down. Seafaring people are not dominated by Scandinavians anymore – and also it (the area) is almost really unrecognizably *fancy* now… *tweet!*

  10. Don’t be too hard onthelawdick, on, he’s probably a product of the democrap de-education/indoctrination system and thinks that Guam was sunk after Lewis had his conversation with that general.

  11. NC- I’ve heard of that Mission back in the day… It’s truly NOT a place for seamen today, they’d be riff raff…

    emdfl- LOL, very possible…

  12. I’m pretty sure I went to one in Dubai, where the Navy has a “base”. I put that in quotes because it’s basically a boat slip in the middle of a sandy wasteland.