Patterico's Pontifications

8/14/2009

Welcome Home, PFC Pico

Filed under: General — DRJ @ 5:07 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Great News from the adjective-prone Dana household: PFC Pico is coming home. Many thanks to PFC Pico and her family for her service.

— DRJ

43 Responses to “Welcome Home, PFC Pico”

  1. Outstanding news – thank you for your service to this country.

    Dmac (e6d1c2) — 8/14/2009 @ 5:41 pm

  2. Fantabulous!
    Welcome Back, and Thank You!

    AD - RtR/OS! (48f167) — 8/14/2009 @ 5:52 pm

  3. OUTSTANDING

    JD (2e1461) — 8/14/2009 @ 5:54 pm

  4. Welcome home, PFC!

    So, Dana… When you gonna introduce me?

    *ducks*

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/14/2009 @ 5:56 pm

  5. Congratulations, to you and your daughter for her safe return.

    Leviticus (f565c1) — 8/14/2009 @ 6:00 pm

  6. Welcome home! My brother spent basic at Ft. Lost in the Woods, back in the ’60s.

    Red County Pete (bdaa15) — 8/14/2009 @ 6:46 pm

  7. HOOAH! Welcome back

    voiceofreason2 (fab77d) — 8/14/2009 @ 10:43 pm

  8. Thanks, Adjective Dana, for going through what families of troops go through.

    I appreciate it. I’m glad your family has a lot to smile about!

    Juan (bd4b30) — 8/14/2009 @ 11:02 pm

  9. Hey, thanks, we all appreciate it!

    It’s back to Penn State, and (now) Army ROTC for her.

    Our soldiers really appreciate the little things. My favorite brown-eyed girl spent about five hours waiting at the St Louis airport for her flight, and compleet strangers were just as kind as could be to her, because she was in uniform. The shoe-shine guy offered to spiff up her boots (ACU boots don’t get shined), free of charge.

    The proud daddy Dana (3e4784) — 8/15/2009 @ 5:55 am

  10. Delightful news! Best wishes to you both!

    EW1(SG) (edc268) — 8/15/2009 @ 6:27 am

  11. Mr Jacobs: I have told my daughters that they can date once they’re thirty, or after I’m dead, whichever comes last.

    The proud daddy Dana (3e4784) — 8/15/2009 @ 8:27 am

  12. See, that just means I gotta kill you.

    Why would you force my hand in such a fashion? 🙂

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/15/2009 @ 12:00 pm

  13. Thing is, PFC Pico is still only twenty, so even if you killed me now, you couldn’t date her until 4 October 2018! 🙂

    When you’ll be what, 40? 🙂

    The Dana who still has an ace up his sleeve (474dfc) — 8/15/2009 @ 3:36 pm

  14. Yeah…

    What, you saying she’s prejudiced against old people? Is that what you’re telling me?

    I would have thought you would have raised her better than that…

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/15/2009 @ 4:09 pm

  15. Just for you, Mr Jacobs, I have put up a picture of PFC Pico.

    The proud daddy Dana (474dfc) — 8/15/2009 @ 4:18 pm

  16. You are a good man, Dana.

    I half expected a picture of her pointing a weapon, as an attempt at deterrence. 🙂

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/15/2009 @ 7:12 pm

  17. Dana of the Adjectives – Congratulations to your family on the safe return of your PFC. She can now probably silently kill you about 15 different ways, so watch your ass.

    Please thank your PFC for her service.

    daleyrocks (718861) — 8/15/2009 @ 7:22 pm

  18. “I half expected a picture of her pointing a weapon, as an attempt at deterrence”

    – Scott Jacobs

    Like a picture like that would deter a bunch of dirty, bloodthirsty, gun-crazy conservatives like you in the first place – it’d probably just get you even more keyed up. Dana knows better than to throw that kind of provocation around. It’s unsporting.

    Leviticus (f565c1) — 8/15/2009 @ 11:35 pm

  19. Comment by Leviticus — 8/15/2009 @ 11:35 pm

    Hey, I love guns. All kinds of guns. If it uses a rapid chemical or physical reaction to create a volume of rapidly expanding gas, which is then used to propel a projectile down a barrel or any sort, I’m a fan and would like to fire it once or twice, pretty please…

    But I am also sane enough to know that a US soldier pointing an M-16 (or any variant there-of) is one of nature’s ways of saying “no touchy”.

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/15/2009 @ 11:52 pm

  20. If Scott had been following Dana’s posts at Common Sense Political Thought, he would know that Dana’s daughter had already beaten up one Marine, who seemingly liked her for it, and would himself beat up Scott were Scott try to bird-dog.

    nk (544046) — 8/16/2009 @ 2:20 am

  21. Why do people say things like that as though I would consider it a deterrent?

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/16/2009 @ 3:13 am

  22. Ok, if that doesn’t give you pause, remember that Dana deals in concrete, a cubic yard of which weighs 2,000 pounds, and the Pennsylvania Highway Department would not even notice that it got 200 pounds more than it ordered for its pylons.

    nk (544046) — 8/16/2009 @ 5:08 am

  23. Actually, a cubic yard of concrete weighs, depending on the mix, between roughly 3,600 and 4,100 lb! But I’d never send Mr Jacobs to a state job: the inspectors might reject the load. Better a residential footing, where nobody cares.

    Assuming that Mr Jacobs weighs 200 lb, and the human body is about 70% water, that would be 140 lb, or almost 17 gallons, of additional water for which I’d have to compensate, to make sure the load wasn’t too wet.

    The concrete producer Dana (474dfc) — 8/16/2009 @ 5:34 am

  24. Mr Jacobs wrote:

    I am also sane enough to know that a US soldier pointing an M-16 (or any variant there-of) is one of nature’s ways of saying “no touchy”.

    Well, maybe. Autumn said that the M-16 she was issued for BFT was in lousy shape; she figured it had been through Iraq, then a few years of Basic, before she ever got it. And in BFT (Battle Focused Training), her last two weeks, all they were issued were blanks.

    But she’s got to be tough: she survived a suicide bombing — sort of.

    The Army-daddy Dana (474dfc) — 8/16/2009 @ 5:42 am

  25. Yeah, but the rifle also accepts a bayonet… I suspect she wouldn’t need to actually FIRE the thing to end me.

    And I’m ok with that. 🙂 I would like to address one thing, though…

    Assuming that Mr Jacobs weighs 200 lb, and the human body is about 70% water, that would be 140 lb, or almost 17 gallons, of additional water for which I’d have to compensate, to make sure the load wasn’t too wet.

    It would appear that you have thought long and hard about this. I find that I am more amused than worried…

    There just might be something wrong with me. 🙂

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/16/2009 @ 10:25 am

  26. Better a residential footing, where nobody cares.

    Also, I think that it is good that I know this sort of thing…

    A man should also know where he stands with his future father-in-law.

    8)

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/16/2009 @ 11:43 am

  27. Mr Jacobs wrote:

    A man should also know where he stands with his future father-in-law.

    Hmmm. Well, there are five teenagers/twenty-year-olds downstairs right now, one of whom is the boyfriend of one of the teenaged girls. THat particular girl is not one of my daughters, but she was jokingly referred to as the spare kid first, several years ago, when Mrs Pico was buying season passes to Mauch Chunk Lake Park. Samantha was with us, and didn’t cost any more, so Mrs Pico simply listed her as “Sam Pico.” Sam and her boyfriend live out of town, but we have another spare teenager, who spends almost every night here, eats here, and pretty much gets everything that our real daughters get. So the family seems to be constantly assimilating new members; not sure how this happens.

    It might be an upgrade situation. When I was a kid, the family took in stray cats. Now that I’m (supposedly) an adult, the family takes in stray people.

    So, what the heck, welcome to the family; we can always set one more place at the dinner table.

    The fatherly Dana (474dfc) — 8/16/2009 @ 2:45 pm

  28. not sure how this happens.

    You really should consider locking the doors at night. The strays keep getting in.

    🙂

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/16/2009 @ 3:24 pm

  29. Also, that was very much not the reaction I was expecting. I’m used to “I would rather smoke a buick”.

    I know it’s an improvement, but it will take some adjusting. 🙂

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/16/2009 @ 3:25 pm

  30. Well, Mr Jacobs, we just finished dinner (burritos) and the table was full. All the regular chairs were filled, and we needed an extra one, but what the heck.

    Also, that was very much not the reaction I was expecting.

    One should never be too predictable!

    The very fatherly Dana (474dfc) — 8/16/2009 @ 3:49 pm

  31. As it happens, Bryce, one of the (current) spare daughter’s friends called. He’s finishing Blue Phase at Fort Jackson, where my daughter did BCT. Normally soldiers finish with Victory Forge, a seven day field exercise, but the scuttlebutt is that it might be cancelled, depending upon the track of Hurricane Bill.

    Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania is doing its part in providing volunteers for the United States Army.

    The Dana in Pennsylvania (474dfc) — 8/16/2009 @ 3:57 pm

  32. A man with only daughters needs sons-in-law to plow the fields and protect the homestead. That’s how come I’m part Turkish/Albanian on my father’s side.

    nk (544046) — 8/16/2009 @ 4:02 pm

  33. nk, I’ve seen pictures of your fabulous homestead in/near the wilds of Chicago, but thus far, you haven’t included pictures of you plowing the fields.

    Must simply have been an oversight on your part.

    The Dana who can't think of a particularly appropriate adjective right now (474dfc) — 8/16/2009 @ 5:14 pm

  34. Please… He’s a lawyer…

    He sues people to have them do it. DUH!

    And ironically, in the spirit of Dana apparently putting me to work in the fields, I have actually worked the corn fields here in IL, and baled hay in KS…

    I have had a most eclectic up-brining…

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/16/2009 @ 5:26 pm

  35. It was my great-great-great-grandfather with the seven daughters and the fields and the seven just out of work Turkish/Albanian mercenaries looking for a home. But here is a picture of his great-grandson and wife holding me in a part of those fields.

    nk (544046) — 8/16/2009 @ 5:32 pm

  36. I’ve spent a little time in the fields myself. My uncle in Kentucky would pay me to work on his tobacco farms. I’ve set tobacco and put up hay more times than I really want to count.

    The hard-working Dana (474dfc) — 8/16/2009 @ 5:36 pm

  37. So, what the heck, welcome to the family

    You know, I’m no expert on how these things work, but aren’t we supposed to ask PFC Pico about this?

    8)

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/16/2009 @ 6:43 pm

  38. We had an agreement! And with us, an agreement is an agreement!

    Reb Tevya (3e4784) — 8/17/2009 @ 1:12 pm

  39. And what might this agreement have been?

    Dana hasn’t promised my bride to another, has he? 🙂

    Scott Jacobs (6aff37) — 8/17/2009 @ 1:30 pm

  40. No, no, of course not. I’m just working on my calculations for the bride price.

    The economist Dana (3e4784) — 8/18/2009 @ 3:29 am

  41. Suitor: If you will give me your daughter for my wife, I will pay you her weight in gold.
    Father of the bride: Agreed, but the wedding cannot take place for six months.
    Suitor: Why, is she too young?
    Father of the bride: No, I want to fatten her up a little more.

    nk (aa7de7) — 8/18/2009 @ 4:33 am

  42. I’m just working on my calculations for the bride price.

    Best I can do is to promise to never to push for, or agree to, sending you to a home just so one of your kids can get the house.

    8)

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 8/18/2009 @ 9:48 am

  43. nk: She’s in the Army, so she has to be below a maximum weight.

    Dana (3e4784) — 8/19/2009 @ 4:12 am


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