At High Tide Federal Campaigners

[Strawfoot]

Re: At High Tide Federal Campaigners

The First Federal Division Staff under new commander Steve Dunfee (Army of the Pacific) has a comprehensive plan for improvement in both events and impression that could only come from a campaigner like Steve and a Staff of campaigners, including Mark Hernbroth (AoP) as COS and Dom dal Bello (AoP) as AAIG, and Jim Moffett (assisted by Rob Murray) in charge of the Western Brigade (the largest piece). Dom's elevation to AAIG is surely one of the more brilliant staff appointments in the history of the hobby. The guy litterally wrote the book for his job.

What is this? Dom doesn't have a command?


Mike Phineas
Arlington, TX

[DougCooper]

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Gentlemen, recruiting continues for the campaigner companies for At High Tide. The battalion registered list is over 150 thus far.

The rations form is being distributed through e-mail. This will be a full on authentic ration issue in period containers on Friday evening. For those of you not familiar with the folks involved with the rations, believe me this is not to be missed. Cost is $15 and that includes the rations and the corps badges.

Register at http://www.wmhf.org/athightide/registration.html and include "Western Brigade, Doug Cooper's company" in the blank.

Hope to see you in the ranks. Thanks.

[jake.koch]

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Do we send the $15 with the $30 registration or is there somewhere special to send the $15 to?

[Jim Moffet]

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Good Question - thanks for asking!

Registration for the AHT event is separate from the WB ration issue.

The ration form needs to be filled out and mailed under separate cover to the Western Brigade address. We are coordinating the ration issue for our battalion alone - not for the entire event!

To learn more about the rations, and to get an electronic copy of the form, go to the Western Brigade Website: http://westernbrigade.org/

Other information about our impression will be posted there, as well.

Jim Moffet
Colonel, Western Brigade

[Rob Murray]

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Folks,

There seems to be a technical glitch with the ration form. We are working on it.

[Jim Moffet]

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Technical glitch fixed!

Sorry for any inconvenience....it should work now.

Jim Moffet

[Charles Heath]

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Boys,

Spring has sprung, and a big ol' Gavia immeralit on my windowsill here at The Bunker, and told me the following useful information: "Chris got the conditional use permit last night. He need to get a letter from the ambulance service and post a $3000.00 bond, but he has the permit." This is great, as the event is now most likely going to happen, and it is a darn good thing to see an event of any kind get their permits and other happy hoohah in order this far in advance.

Okay, now to the meat of the matter....

Bread!

Fooled ya, huh? The hardy Minnesota fellows actually in Minnesota where summer lasts but a month, and winter hath eleven, have busted their third points of contact to crank out sufficient hardbread for this event, and, if I may be so bold as to say so, this portion of the ration issue came in under budget, and the quality should exceed that of the product from Bent's establishment, and may remind some of the old timers of the bygone days of Mechanical Baking's wonderful window shatterers. We have the sons and grandsons of Oly and Lena to thank for this labor of love, gross abuse of pizzaria ovens, and willingness to ship delicate flavored vittles in the diesl smoke filled luggage compartment of a charter bus. Hardtack has become the budget buster for many a ration issue in recent years, and with retail prices hedging closer to a buck a cracker, perhaps some competition is in order.

Meat!

She-who-makes-all-the-important-decisions-in-life and I packed a 136-pound batch of salt pork last Saturday, and from the sniff test a few minutes ago, all is looking well in the container. At the US Army rate of issue of a pound and a half of oinker for your two day stint in Adams County, PA, that is enough positively delicious pickled porcine product for roughly 9o brave souls. The second batch is going to be prepared during the evening of 15 April 2008, and the amount of meat, salt, and spring water will be determined by those who have actually paid, and not the HMIC's, will-calls, and IOUs in the cigar box.

The same Minnesota state bird on the windowsill also mentioned: "We have at this time 183 registered and 108 rations paid for." This tells me some folks expect a free meal, however, the smart money says only 27 pounds of fresh shoulder meat will be processed this coming Tuesday evening, unless some folks pony up some green in a hurry. As of this writing, two companies haven't paid a dime. I'm also noticing these unpaid folks are people who generally have eaten my rations before....wait....they may know something after all. Hmmm, nope, I'm not going to name any names, but you know who you are.

Coffee!

Unlike the CS forces across the field, you folks will receive actual coffee rather than chicory, sweet potato, okra, rye, persimmon seeds, burnt peanut hulls, mule hair, walnut sawdust, rat droppings, shop sweepings, etc. How long that coffee has been sitting in sacks, cans, buckets, and boxes in the reaches of the underground parking garage here at The Bunker is anyone's guess, but we suspect most of it is probably newer than 2001 vintage. On a more serious note, I suspect you folks will like the coffee, as the majority of the really old and nasty stuff will be going to the good folks signed up for Glendale-Malvern Hill.

Sugar!

What you do in the brothels of Fairfield, Greenmount, and Gettysburg on your own time is your business, but some tasty, goopy, runny, kinda-like-issued sugar will be provided for your amusement, as it tends to do all manner of wacky things in the hot sun of June and July.

Corps Badges!

A bargain at any price. You ever sit down with a packed public school classroom full of ADHD children to cut out hundreds of trefoils? Okay, so a number of them were encouraged to run with sharp scissors. Strongly, I might add.

Seriously, it is high time to get paid up for rations, and if it makes you feel any better, I, the great procrastinator, still need to register for this event. Say, is there a website for this thing? (Just kidding.)

Seeing how I'm not on the money collecting end of things, if you have any doubts about the status of your ration dollars, please email Rob Murray at rmmurray@charter.net for clarification. I'm sure he is going to love 100+ emails by COB today, so only email him only if you truly don't know.

Thanks!

[DougCooper]

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"positively delicious pickled porcine product "

Say that 10 times fast...:D

thanks Charles - we are all working like mad to collect the bucks for the grits. This will be a ration issue for the ages...which is to say, exactly like June 30, 1863 in a big field near Uniontown, MD.

Well done!

[Rob Murray]

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The last of the pork was salted last evening. We have a small amount of wiggle room. If you want to be involved in the ration issue and have not already paid, contact me first at rmmurray@charter.net

[Wild Rover]

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All,

Bond posted, letters turned in....full speed ahead.


Pards,

[Rob Murray]

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The ration form has been pulled from the Western Brigade website. Ration forms post marked May 5, 2008 will be accepted. If you would like to still take part in the ration issue, the cost is now $20.00 due to the increased price of the alternate pork source. You can reach me at rmmurray@charter.net

[Charles Heath]

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"...of the alternate pork source."

Somehow I couldn't help but think of these two porkers who have made the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of the Inner Man.

[Haversack]

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I may be interested.I am going to send an e-mail as soon as I get home in a few minutes.

[BigRonFH]

I am registered, paid (including the ration allowance to our beloved Captain!) and will be there! We'll hang ol' Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree, by gum!

Ron Hopkins
Co. D, 13th US Infantry
(footsore)

[GeraldDuval]

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So I've already registered with a different mess, and I'll be falling in with them for the event. However, I was wondering if the march on friday is open to those not falling in with the AC campaigner brigade? Would it be possible to just show up and tromp around at the end of the AC column?