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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
I have never seen someone at the US Public Health Service use their military rank in a serious way (link)....
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dirtytoeddawg
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We used to treat mental illness, now we celebrate it.
When I worked in CBP many years ago there was a USPHS person officing next door to one of our offices. He worked 9-5 daily M-F and never on the weekends. I usually only saw him when he came out of his office to get a cup of coffee or go home. Most of the flights carrying Vietnamese refugees and other immigrants arrived after 5 PM or on weekends. Many of these people had active TB and had never seen a bathroom. They would stop in the corridor, drop their pants and take a crap on the floor. USPHS man nowhere to be seen.
AgEngDawg
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Is that frowned upon?
Shitting on the floor in the corridor where the rest of the passengers had to walk? Back then it was. Nowadays, they would be given citizenship, voter's registration and $450,000.
