The Boys are Back in Town

I am referring here to the youth of the USS Kitty Hawk, the US Naval Carrier which has docked in Brisbane before returning back to the US to be decommissioned in June of next year. I always used to think the US Navy were something to be respected, the world's largest naval force with a truly global reach and some mighty fine equipment to get them there. Then with the arrival of the Kitty Hawk and its personnel in Brisbane I realised that the US navy is staffed by boys who all wear their hats askew, their trousers sans belt flying at half mast around their booties. There was one little posse of chaps in the Vic last night and I almost felt compelled to compliment one of them on his efforts to grow moustache. A fine effort it was that took me back to about 1990/91 and the fluffy little efforts that used to appear on some of the hairier lads at the tail end of middle school. Anyway boy sailors of America, we welcome you and your dollars that are rapidly depreciating in their global spending power.