Meow House Theatre

Heard an interesting story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition this past week. It concerned the latest news about contaminated food imports from China. Probably everyone’s heard at this point about the contaminated pet food that has caused hundreds (or thousands, maybe) of deaths of people’s beloved companion animals, and not that it “started” with that, I’m sure, but since that story broke there seems to be a lot of scrutiny on what goes on over there with the food we’re importing from them.

As Imports Increase, a Tense Dependence on China

by Richard Knox, Morning Edition, May 25, 2007

Toothpaste from China is the latest official worry. This week, the Food and Drug Administration began testing it at U.S. ports of entry after contaminated Chinese toothpaste began showing up in other countries. It contained a chemical used in antifreeze — the same chemical that killed people in Panama last year when it turned up in cough syrup, mislabeled by Chinese manufacturers as a harmless sweetener. An FDA spokesman says no test results are available yet on the toothpaste at U.S. ports.

(Full article is here.)
The parts that really interested me were:

In the past year, the FDA rejected more than twice as many food shipments from China as from all other countries combined. The rejected shipments make an unappetizing list. Inspectors commonly block Chinese food imports because they’re “filthy.” That’s the official term. “They might smell decomposition. They might see gross contamination of the food. ‘Filthy’ is a broad term for a product that is not fit for human consumption,” Hubbard [former FDA official William Hubbard] says.

And

Another rejection code is “vet-drug-res.” That means the food product, usually things like fish, seafood and eels, contains residues of veterinary drugs, such as antibiotics and antifungals. “These fish are often raised in polluted water, unfortunately. So they’re given these drugs to treat them,” Hubbard says.

And most of all, incredibly, this:

When Hubbard was at the FDA, he heard all kinds of stories about foreign food processors, like the one a staffer told him after visiting a Chinese factory that makes herbal tea.

“To speed up the drying process, they would lay the tea leaves out on a huge warehouse floor and drive trucks over them so that the exhaust would more rapidly dry the leaves out,” Hubbard says. “And the problem there is that the Chinese use leaded gasoline, so they were essentially spewing the lead over all these leaves.” (Emphasis mine.)

They’re driving trucks over tea leaves to dry them faster, but that’s not the problem. Driving trucks over food–ON TOP OF–food, spewing exhaust all over it, dropping bits of whatever crap has attached itself to the undercarriage, leaving little pieces of whatever roadkill the tires have picked up to decompose in the food, on the food, is not the bad part. That would be okay, I guess. What’s a little rust and road dirt, after all? And can anyone prove that eating carbon monoxide emissions is actually harmful to you? Who cares if your food is impregnated with it? It’s Extreme Eating! (That’s a great idea for a new reality show actually: ten lucky [hapless?] bastards are picked to go to China and eat whatever the processing plant puts in front of them. First prize is a year’s worth of food imported direct from the factory floor to your table; second prize is two years’ worth.) No, what’s “bad” about this innovative method of drying tea leaves is that the exhaust fumes contain lead. Well call me prissy but to me that’s not what’s going to make my face screw up into a combination of puzzled/bewildered/completely grossed out mask of what.the.fuck. They are DRIVING trucks over food that people eat! And this is perceived to be “okay”! I am not so naïve to think that we in the U.S. have some kind of pristine system whereby our food is delivered on angels’ wings, never to alight on the dirt of manufacturing reality, but I don’t think we’d get away with using a Mack truck’s muffler output as a food dehydrator. And yet we (or rather the government) thinks it’s okay to import it. My mind is blown. It really is. This is what makes me want to go live on a farm, turn the clock back to 1840, hook up Bessie the Mule to my plow, and never visit a Stop & Shop again. I just need to buy me some bloomers first. It’s either that or just close my eyes and think of England. I can’t get away with not eating, I suppose. Why did I have to hear that story? Why? I was living in ignorant bliss. Well not exactly ignorant, since I am aware of the level of “filth” the FDA allows in a variety of foods. Did you know that there can be up to a certain number of rat hairs per pound of chocolate without it being considered tainted enough to warrant destruction? Or that … oh never mind, I’ll leave you to your pristine white-tiled gleaming stainless-steel processing-plant fantasies.

I had a coupon for a free any-kind-of-coffee at Peets so I went up there and got a frozen mocha-chocolate thingy, which was the most enormous coffee I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t finish it, so you know it must have been big. I also felt bad for making them make this ginormous drink for free, so I tipped them a dollar (which I never do at those kinds of places–I save my tips for actual servers) and I bought a candy bar they had out on the counter. Imagine my surprise when they told me it was $3.25. That must be one helluva chocolate, right? So I got one:

It says “artisanal chocolate” on the label. Like fine cheese does. Well, it was okay but it wasn’t worth $3.25. I mean, it was quite good … but was it incrementally worth more than $2.00 more than a Dove chocolate bar? It was not. Did I like it $3.25 worth? I did not. Next time I’ll be sure to make sure how much it costs before committing. Goodbye, $3.25 that I could have used on something else. Le sigh.

In other news, I have been asked to write a key address for a major corporation’s annual conference next spring. It’s supposed to be something funny. The guy who will be speaking has a great delivery and I am really looking forward to working on it. He has an idea of what he wants already: something funny based on this company’s “corporate-speak”: IBM was notorious for its “IBM-Speak”; Bell for its “Bell-Speak,” and this company is apparently heading that way. The last board book had five pages, single-spaced, of acronyms that everyone is supposed to know, but considering that half the corporation and its partners are from non-English-speaking countries, it makes it rather difficult. So I will be writing something hopefully hilarious about that and if I’m lucky it will be picked up, at least for a few minutes, by the cable news networks. (CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and C-SPAN always broadcast parts of this conference, so it’s not impossible that they’d pick up this segment.) Not that anyone watching would know that it was mine, but I’d know. That, unfortunately, is the downside to doing speeches: everyone thinks the guy talking actually wrote it. That’s not usually how it works. Le sigh, encore.

Last Sunday was my regular improv workshop. We spent most of this week and last week doing scene work and “layups,” which are similar to basketball layups in that you make quick shots one after the other, go go go, don’t think don’t plan just speak. Sometimes the instructor would give a phrase we had to start with or a some other slight direction, and the rest was left up to us. This doesn’t mean that we just do whatever we want for the whole time; the instructor provides guidance about other directions in which to take the scene, or how a different choice of response would have opened up more possibilities. Improv truly must be one of the most self-satisfying least-negative of all the performance art forms because nobody ever says, “NO you’re doing it WRONG! That’s not what the script says! That’s not what the score says! That’s not where the character’s motivation comes from! You’re supposed to do this / say this / play this / act like this, not THAT!!!” It’s very freeing to never be “wrong.”

As usual, we do a round of warmups first to get loose, both mentally and physically. We did one where we all formed a circle and one person goes into the center and starts singing. He/she can sing whatever comes to mind: nursery songs, pop, opera, whatever. The “it” person has to stay in the center until someone taps him out and jumps in to start a new song. Although it’s not “required” to do it this way, what often ends up happening and what did end up happening for us is that people tend to feed off of and build from the song before, so they become inter-connected in some way. (This is rather similar to the way longform improv develops.) Someone sang a song about sunshine and I jumped in with “Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,” and then someone came in with “I Can See Clearly Now.” We just kept going, the songs turning on themselves (while we’re all laughing hysterically while singing–yes, such a thing is possible), until our instructor did the “Stray Cat Strut,” to which I bounced into the “Meow Mix” theme. You know, “meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.” That was clearly the place to call “Scene!” and we all laughed and laughed. No bad moods in improv. Or if you’re in one, you’ll get out of it pretty damn quick.

After the class, three of us and the teacher went to dinner and then to the Sgt. Culpepper Show at the ImprovBoston theater in Cambridge. The Culpepper show is different every week and it turned out that this week happened to all sketch and not improv but it was quite entertaining nonetheless. There was a group from Gordon College there doing “Barack Bowls 300,” some of whose members I had seen back in February at the Improv Beanpot. Also appearing was Hard Left Productions, a 2-man sketch group that did a few very funny scenes including one that was a combination of their reacting (on stage) to a videotape of themselves. It was rather surreal. They’ve got a funny but oogy video getting a lot of hits on YouTube right now called “Wii Accident.” Don’t watch if you have squeamish eye issues. (Oh now you just HAVE to look, don’t you. Admit it.)

At the end of the night, as usual there is an open jam (and this is all improv, not sketch) where anyone who wants to participate can go up on stage and you build games based on what the host tells you. (Similar to what happens on Whose Line Is It Anyway, or any improv performance where they’re playing games as opposed to doing straight longform.) This was a little nerve-wracking because aside from my two classmates I did not know anyone there, and plus, it was so obvious they were all SO much more experienced and seasoned at doing this. But participating in the jam forces you to think quickly and it’s not like someone is judging you, so it’s all fun. There was one game we played called “185,” where the goal is to make bad jokes about the subject that that host dictates, which for this game was first “doctors” and then later on, “tanks.” The format is, roughly (people can change around things a bit) that you step out and do a standup joke: “185 doctors walk into a bar. Bartender says, We don’t serve doctors here.” Doctors say: _________ [this is where you fill in the punch line you just came up with]. This totally threw me at first because I was not expecting it, for one; and second, I am a terrible joke-teller. I can’t think of them and can’t repeat them well upon hearing them. For the first 5 minutes, I just thought, “I will have nothing to say and I feel like an idiot standing here and everyone is staring at me knowing that I am a big giant stupid fool” but then ideas started coming to me. Two that I told that I can remember are:

(N.B. Remember, these are supposed to be BAD jokes):

185 doctors walk into a bar. Bartender says, “We don’t serve doctors here.” Doctors say, “That’s okay, we were all planning to order cheeseburgers!”

185 tanks walk into a bar. Without even being served anything, they each give the bartender a $10 tip. Bartender says, “Tanks a lot!”

See, I told you they were baaaaadddd.

The trick on this is to think up your punch line first and then figure out how to get there. You work backwards. It was loads of fun. We also played “Questions Only,” which is a scene where two people can only converse in questions. I was mildly bad, getting “out” after only a few rounds. Some people did really well; and not just by asking easy questions like, “Why is that?” over and over.

The last thing we did was something designed to get everyone on stage, with the guest host (John Serpico, no relation although he said the name is very handy for getting him out of traffic tickets) and Marcelo Illarmo creating this entire “slide show” (acted out in freeze-frame by the other participants) documenting their Mother’s Day adventures as two nebbish moms, complete with the appropriate slightly Noo-Yawkish voices. There were only a very few women playing (me and one or two others, but about 12 or 15 men–I’ve noticed before that improv is very male-dominated for some reason)–and they “picked” me, by virtue of my coincidentally raised hand, to be the one talking person in the scene … for which I became slightly confused, forgetting that they were two ladies of a certain age shopping in the grocery store on Mother’s Day, although I wasn’t completely off track. (Not to me anyway.) It was amazing though how they took what I offered and completely worked it back around, in the space of a sentence, to having direct relevance to the entire scene. Like I said, those people were clearly experienced.

It was loads of fun. We plan to do it again at least once more before the workshop is over. I know that when I take my class this summer in New York at UCB they do the same thing; in fact part of the class requirements are that you attend a certain number of improv shows. I am really looking forward to it.

Oh, about Mother’s Day: well I had seen my mother twice in the past week–in three days actually (driving to Connecticut each time) so I left this one for her to spend by herself. Yes, I called her. First one, of all of us kids, I might add. So there.

I am pleased beyond belief to report that I have won a blad (book layout and design) for Stephen Colbert’s upcoming book, I Am America (And So Can You!). The awesomely fantastic DB at NoFactZone has been doing promotion for the book and was able to arrange through the publisher, Hachette Book Group USA, to get several blads to give out as promotional materials. NFZ created their Balls and Blads Contest and held a drawing and I was stunned to learn last night that I actually won. I rarely win anything. The last big thing I recall was a gallon jug of Bonne Bell 10-0-6 Lotion (some kind of toner that was supposed to give you clear smooth skin; all I remember is it made my face feel that it was on fire) back in the 8th grade. Oh I do “win” stuff that involves some effort on my part, but random drawings, no. Or when I do win, it’s the crappiest offering in the bag. Like those gift exchanges you do when you’re a kid … I’d see all the other kids getting all kinds of cool presents and what did I pull out of the goddamn bag time after time? A goddamn useless Magic Stencil piece of junk. You know, that thing with a plastic sheet that you draw on and then when you lift the sheet, you “erase” the picture? I must have gotten 20 of those in my childhood. You can see I’m still scarred by them. So winning this blad makes up for it. A lot. Thank you from the bottom of my very-slightly-fangirly heart. I will be at the studio in a month or two and will get him to make a witty inscription if it’s the last thing I do.

Once I receive it and have calmed down enough to think clearly, I will write a full review. A blad, if you don’t know, is kind of a preview of an upcoming book. It usually contains the planned cover, the table of contents, the artwork, and some sample chapters. I’ve seen snippets of these already and it looks to be a hilarious piece of work. I really hope Stephen had a great time doing it and will write another book in a few years.

And all you people who haven’t checked out NoFactZone yet, you ought to. It should be the first stop for anyone who watches The Colbert Report. You can’t find better coverage of the show itself, nor a better compilation of links and commentary on anyone who references the show in any form of media.

Last night’s episode of The Colbert Report proved that even Stephen Colbert, the master of keeping a straight face, has his breaking point when he not only cannot hold it together, he can’t get it back together no matter how desperately he wants to.

As everyone who is any kind of Colbert fan knows by now, Jane Fonda was the guest last night. Last time she was on (Oct. 10, 2006), she, Stephen, and Gloria Steinem baked a pie together for the “Cooking With Feminists” segment and Jane demonstrated his irresistibility by several times kissing him during the show and getting Ms. Steinem to kiss him also. (Aside: Why do I call her “Jane” and Steinem “Ms. Steinem”? Well because I feel that now that I’ve seen Jane halfway to second base, we have a familiar relationship. Ms. Steinem only enjoyed a small peck on the cheeck. It didn’t really count. So I don’t know her as well. But I digress.)

Anyhoo, in introducing Jane, Stephen brought out his “Kiss The Host” apron to follow his “Kiss The Cook” apron that he wore back in October. He’s probably regretting getting that thing printed because Jane took him up on it x 10. Upon his sitting down at the interview table, she immediately got up and walked behind him, spun his chair around, and planted herself in his lap. You could see him blushing through the makeup. It was postively wonderful to watch. He tried and tried to turn the conversation around to her new movie (”Georgia Rule”) and even tried to change the tone of the interview by broaching the subject of her anti-war protests during Vietnam, and she also got that steered back to sex with “”We cannot elect men to office that are afraid of premature evacuation.” So out of character for Stephen to have no witty comback to that one, but I think he knew it was all over for him at that pont and he just better endure the next 6 minutes as well as he could.

I’m not normally one to revel in schadenfreude, but oh my this was glorious to catch Stephen completely flustered and tongue-tied. He so often gets his guests all flummoxed themselves, with his double-plus-good faux-neocon rhetoric, and this time he could barely keep the conversation on track. He’s often a giant flirt anyway with female guests but usually he’s the one flirting and they are just following his lead. Last night Jane just bowled him over. In a way, this is really his own fault, having had an entire segment in January of this year devoted to having to put his fantasies of Jane Fonda “On Notice”; Jane mentioned this disapprovingly last night and told him firmly, “You don’t do that, Stephen … you embrace your fantasies.” The poor man was half-terrified to move, I think; his hand never budged from the armrest the whole time, probably for fear that it would encourage her to do god-knows-what on national TV. Either he was totally unhinged or he’s the greatest and most under-rated dramatic actor working today.

I think it would be hi-fucking-larious to have Evelyn (the lovely Mrs. Colbert) in the studio tonight, glaring from the runway entrance, and even more funny to have tonight’s guest (Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone) try to sit in his lap too. What I wouldn’t give to see what the conversation was at the Colbert house last night. Not that she has anything to worry about from Jane Fonda or anyone else. I hope she thought the whole thing was as hilarious as I did and they got a huge laugh out of it. After she got something good, like he has to be the one to clean the litter box for the next year. I think that’s only fair.

Once again, I cannot embed a clip. You can watch it here.

Today is 4 years since George Bush alighted on the USS Lincoln and proclaimed the end of major combat operations in Iraq, the gloriously huge “Mission Accomplished” banner hanging prominently behind him.

Total U.S. fatalities since May 1, 2003: 3,351

Total U.S. non-mortal combat injuries: more than 26,000

If each killed soldier was laid end to end, you’d have to jog almost 4 miles to pass them all. If you add in the wounded, you have to be a star marathon runner: it’s more than 32 miles. And that’s just U.S. military. No “coalition of the willing” or Iraqis, no contractors, no civilian workers, no aid workers.

If each of the 3,351 dead soldiers was worth a quarter, you could go through the Lincoln Tunnel 139 times.

3,351 dead soldiers is 4.65 spans of the Golden Gate Bridge laid end to end.

3,351 dead soldiers would be as high as 15.6 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. Or if you’d rather think about it a little more relevantly, 3,351 dead soldiers would be the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center stacked on top of each other and then the pair stacked on top of each other 7.16 times.

I was going to post the names and dates of death for every single U.S. military personnel killed but it was more than 25 pages long in Word and I don’t think this blog can handle that. But here are the names of those killed just in 2003. Since May 1, the “end of major combat operations,” there are 346 names. Which means that from Jan. 1, 2004, through April 28, 2007 (the last day for which DoD statistics have been released), three thousand five more soldiers have been killed.

Thank god they got that banner up in time! Who knows how many more would be dead without it!

12/30/03 Pollard, Justin W. * 12/28/03 Jordan Jr., Curt E. * 12/28/03 Blanco, Ernesto M. * 12/28/03 Cuervo, Rey D. * 12/26/03 Mihalakis, Michael G. * 12/26/03 Sutter, Michael J. * 12/26/03 Haight, Charles G. * 12/25/03 Hattamer, Stephen C. * 12/25/03 Christensen, Thomas W. * 12/24/03 Yashinski, Michael E. * 12/24/03 Cooke, Eric F. * 12/24/03 Biskie, Benjamin W. * 12/24/03 Soelzer, Christopher F. * 12/24/03 Splinter, Christopher J. * 12/22/03 Moore, Stuart W. * 12/22/03 Saltz, Edward M. * 12/19/03 Bush Jr., Charles E. * 12/18/03 Allison, Glenn R. * 12/17/03 Holland, Christopher J. * 12/15/03 Nakis, Nathan W. * 12/15/03 Souslin, Kenneth C. * 12/14/03 Voelz, Kimberly A. * 12/14/03 Ferguson, Rian C. * 12/12/03 Black, Jarrod W. * 12/12/03 Braun, Jeffrey F. * 12/11/03 Edgerton, Marshall L. * 12/10/03 Bates, Todd M. * 12/10/03 Reese, Aaron T. * 12/10/03 Burdick, Richard A. * 12/10/03 Petty, Jerrick M. * 12/08/03 Wesley, Christopher Jude Rivera * 12/08/03 Blickenstaff, Joseph M. * 12/08/03 Bridges, Steven H. * 12/08/03 Wright, Jason G. * 12/07/03 Hutchinson, Ray J. * 12/05/03 Clark, Arron R. * 12/02/03 Boone, Clarence E. * 12/02/03 Young, Ryan C. * 12/02/03 Davis, Raphael S. * 12/01/03 Singh, Uday * 11/29/03 Bertolino, Stephen A. * 11/29/03 Sissel, Aaron J. * 11/28/03 Rico, Ariel * 11/27/03 Sweet II, Thomas J. * 11/26/03 Goldberg, David J. * 11/23/03 Nason, Christopher G. * 11/23/03 Smith, Darrell L. * 11/23/03 Menyweather, Eddie E. * 11/23/03 Ravago IV, Rel A. * 11/23/03 Wilson, Jerry L. * 11/22/03 Roberts, Robert D. * 11/22/03 Bushart, Damian S. * 11/21/03 Coleman, Gary B. * 11/20/03 Tyrrell, Scott Matthew * 11/20/03 Wood, George A. * 11/20/03 Lister, Joseph L. * 11/17/03 Dalley, Nathan S. * 11/17/03 Shull, James A. * 11/17/03 Coulter, Alexander S. * 11/17/03 Panchot, Dale A. * 11/15/03 Whitener, Joey D. * 11/15/03 Piche, Pierre E. * 11/15/03 Hafer, Richard W. * 11/15/03 DiGiovanni, Jeremiah J. * 11/15/03 Heidelberg, Damian L. * 11/15/03 Saboe, Scott A. * 11/15/03 Russell, John W. * 11/15/03 Bolor, Kelly * 11/15/03 Wolfe, Jeremy L. * 11/15/03 Sullivan, John R. * 11/15/03 Kesterson, Erik C. * 11/15/03 Hawk Eagle, Sheldon R. * 11/15/03 Uhl III, Eugene A. * 11/15/03 Hansen, Warren S. * 11/15/03 Dusenbery, William D. * 11/15/03 Baker, Ryan T. * 11/15/03 Acklin II, Michael D. * 11/15/03 Hayslett, Timothy L. * 11/14/03 Medina, Irving * 11/13/03 Fletcher, Jacob S. * 11/13/03 Minucci II, Joseph * 11/12/03 Bailey, Nathan J. * 11/12/03 Wise, Robert A. * 11/11/03 Jackson, Marlon P. * 11/11/03 Acosta, Genaro * 11/09/03 Tomko, Nicholas A. * 11/08/03 Jimenez, Linda C. * 11/08/03 Frosheiser, Kurt R. * 11/08/03 Collins, Gary L. * 11/08/03 Vasquez, Mark D. * 11/07/03 Kennon, Morgan DeShawn * 11/07/03 Gilmore I, Cornell W. * 11/07/03 Smith, Benedict J. * 11/07/03 Rose, Scott C. * 11/07/03 Neff II, Paul M. * 11/07/03 Kennedy, Kyran E. * 11/07/03 Swartworth, Sharon T. * 11/06/03 Wolf, James R. * 11/06/03 Fisher, Paul F. * 11/06/03 Chance III, James A. * 11/05/03 Rivera, Jose A. * 11/04/03 Benson, Robert T. * 11/04/03 Martinez, Francisco * 11/03/03 Johnson, Rayshawn S. * 11/02/03 Smith, Bruce A. * 11/02/03 Perez, Joel * 11/02/03 Penisten, Brian H. * 11/02/03 Conover, Steven Daniel * 11/02/03 Bader, Daniel A. * 11/02/03 Jennings, Darius T. * 11/02/03 Wilson, Joe Nathan * 11/02/03 Vega, Frances M. * 11/02/03 Slavenas, Brian D. * 11/02/03 Pennanen, Ross A. * 11/02/03 Moss, Keelan L. * 11/02/03 Lau, Karina S. * 11/02/03 Dagostino, Anthony D. * 11/02/03 Bucklew, Ernest G. * 11/02/03 Velasquez, Paul A. * 11/02/03 Colgan, Benjamin J. * 11/01/03 Johnson, Maurice J. * 11/01/03 Hurley, Joshua C. * 10/31/03 Bryant, Todd J. * 10/28/03 Campoy, Isaac * 10/28/03 Barrera, Michael Paul * 10/28/03 Adams, Algernon * 10/27/03 Falaniko, Jonathan I. * 10/27/03 Bell, Aubrey D. * 10/26/03 Acosta, Steven * 10/26/03 Huggins, Jamie L. * 10/26/03 Buehring, Charles H. * 10/26/03 Bosveld, Rachel K. * 10/26/03 Guerrera, Joseph R. * 10/25/03 Cannon, Jakia Sheree * 10/24/03 Hancock, Michael S. * 10/24/03 Mora, Jose L. * 10/24/03 Brassfield, Artimus D. * 10/23/03 Teal, John R. * 10/22/03 Johnson, John P. * 10/22/03 Ward, Jason M. * 10/21/03 Bueche, Paul J. * 10/20/03 Johnson, Paul J. * 10/18/03 Bernstein, David R. * 10/18/03 Hart, John D. * 10/17/03 Williams, Michael L. * 10/16/03 Grilley, Sean R. * 10/16/03 Bellavia, Joseph P. * 10/16/03 Orlando, Kim S. * 10/13/03 Freeman, Benjamin L. * 10/13/03 Weismantle, Douglas J. * 10/13/03 Wheeler, Donald L. * 10/13/03 Wyatt, Stephen E. * 10/13/03 Casanova, Jose * 10/12/03 Powell, James E. * 10/09/03 Silva, Sean A. * 10/09/03 Swisher, Christopher W. * 10/09/03 Norquist, Joseph C. * 10/06/03 Torres, Richard * 10/06/03 Karol, Spencer Timothy * 10/06/03 Scott, Kerry D. * 10/03/03 Pirtle, James H. * 10/03/03 Sims, Charles M. * 10/01/03 Ramos, Tamarra J. * 10/01/03 Blankenbecler, James D. * 10/01/03 Gutierrez, Analaura Esparza * 10/01/03 Hunte, Simeon * 09/30/03 McGaugh, Dustin K. * 09/29/03 Potter, Darrin K. * 09/29/03 Baddick, Andrew Joseph * 09/29/03 Cutchall, Christopher E. * 09/25/03 Rooney, Robert E. * 09/25/03 Thomas, Kyle G. * 09/25/03 Lucero, Robert L. * 09/24/03 Andrade, Michael * 09/22/03 Sturino, Paul J. * 09/20/03 Miller Jr., Frederick L. * 09/20/03 Brown II, Lunsford B. * 09/20/03 Friedrich, David Travis * 09/18/03 Arriaga, Richard * 09/18/03 Thompson, Anthony O. * 09/18/03 Faunce, Brian R. * 09/18/03 Wright, James C * 09/16/03 Pinkston, Foster * 09/15/03 Peterson, Alyssa R. * 09/15/03 Kimmerly, Kevin C. * 09/14/03 Blumberg, Trevor A. * 09/12/03 Morehead, Kevin N. * 09/12/03 Bennett, William M. * 09/11/03 Ybarra III, Henry * 09/10/03 Robsky Jr., Joseph E. * 09/09/03 Carlock, Ryan G. * 09/07/03 Thompson, Jarrett B. * 09/04/03 Brown, Bruce E. * 09/02/03 Sisson, Christopher A. * 09/01/03 Caldwell, Charles Todd * 09/01/03 Camara, Joseph * 09/01/03 Sarno, Cameron B. * 08/30/03 Cataudella, Sean K. * 08/29/03 Lawton, Mark A. * 08/27/03 Sherman, Anthony L. * 08/27/03 Belanger, Gregory A. * 08/27/03 Navea, Rafael L. * 08/26/03 Dent, Darryl T. * 08/25/03 Manzano, Pablo * 08/25/03 Allen Jr., Ronald D. * 08/23/03 Scott, Stephen M. * 08/23/03 Mack, Vorn J. * 08/21/03 Jones-Huffman, Kylan A. * 08/21/03 Adams, Michael S. * 08/20/03 Franklin, Bobby C. * 08/20/03 Harris Jr., Kenneth W. * 08/18/03 Hull, Eric R. * 08/17/03 Ivory, Craig S. * 08/14/03 Kirchhoff, David M. * 08/13/03 White, Steven W. * 08/12/03 Parker, Daniel R. * 08/12/03 Brown Jr., Timmy R. * 08/12/03 Eaton Jr., Richard S. * 08/12/03 Williams, Taft V. * 08/10/03 Perry, David S. * 08/09/03 Kinchen, Levi B. * 08/09/03 Knighten Jr., Floyd G. * 08/08/03 Ramsey, Brandon * 08/08/03 Bush, Matthew D. * 08/07/03 Longstreth, Duane E. * 08/06/03 Hellerman, Brian R. * 08/06/03 Simmons, Leonard D. * 08/06/03 Colunga, Zeferino E. * 08/06/03 Gilbert, Kyle C. * 08/05/03 Letufuga, Farao K. * 08/05/03 Loyd, David L. * 08/01/03 Hebert, Justin W. * 07/31/03 Lambert III, James I. * 07/31/03 Deutsch, Michael J. * 07/30/03 Nott, Leif E. * 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