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Thursday, August 23, 2007 · 4:55 pm · 50 Comments

“Tech. Sgt. Daniel Lopez took the Army & Air Force Exchange Service past the goal of $1 billion in online sales on July 17, 2007 while shopping for a MacBook for his son. He was shopping online at Army and Air Force Exchange website and made a purchase that had more consequences than he expected,” NavyTim reports for LifeDuringDuty.

NavyTim reports, “Not only did he get his new MacBook, but Apple was contacted about the purchase from the Base Exchange Manager – and boy did they step up!”

Along with a $500 gift card from the AF Exchange, he got some nice gifts donated by Apple:
• iPod Nano
• Apple Backpack
• iTunes gift card

Full article here.

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ProtoDAda

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:06 pm · Reply

that’s love…
Rush

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:09 pm · Reply

Finally some respect for our troops from liberal America…. it’s about time.
Eric

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:11 pm · Reply

Don’t see Dell doing any of that.
M.A.D.

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:15 pm · Reply

Haha, Rush!
Nice one!

here we go again… :p
eMax

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:19 pm · Reply

Dell doesnt make any more sales, so it has no1 to award anythying.
Dude

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:20 pm · Reply

Eric, that’s because no one’s buying dells anymore…
Al

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:20 pm · Reply

Liberal America respects our troops. Enough in fact to bring them home. We’re just not happy spending 750 million a day on a very unpopular war.
Mike T.

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:33 pm · Reply

Yeah, have you noticed the lack of Dell commericals.

I don’t see HP doing it either… But then again, he wasn’t buying a PeeCee…
ron

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:33 pm · Reply

Al, tell it to the marines. The ones who will save you from the radical muslims who have NO liberal views. Especially when it comes to women and Americans. The radical people who believe they’ll get 70 virgins in heaven if they die killing one of us.

No-one told them it’s 70 seventy-year-old virgins.
Big Al

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:35 pm · Reply

Yea, that’s it, pull out and let the factions perform mutual genocide.

Check back in a year or so and help the last ones standing rebuild the oil field infrastructure and get that black gold flowing again.

Stop that war, let the Iraqi people decide the outcome and lets get back to business.

Heartless liberal bastards.
D

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:36 pm · Reply

What is it with these beleaguered republicans. I don’t read this site to see mac news politicized.
G Spank

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:36 pm · Reply

From the evidence I’ve seen, it’s the Neo-Cons who don’t respect our troops.
Al = Deputy Dumbass

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:37 pm · Reply

Dearest Al;

It’s typical of liberals to qualify a war as needing to be popular in order to be the right thing to do. History is full of unpopular decisions that later proved to be absolutely necessary in retrospect.

Sincerely,
I Hope Al Becomes Truly Informed
Oops

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:37 pm · Reply

Liberal Americe doesn’t give a fig about our troops and it’s pure B.S. lip service when they pretend otherwise. What liberal America cares mostly about is hamstringing every effort to strengthen America and weaken the enemy. Liberal America wants to give the enemy the victory, which is what will happen if we “redeploy” – otherwise known to the rest of the world as “turning tail and bailing out”. Period! End of story!
The (Original) Great One

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:40 pm · Reply

Ohhhhhh-BOY! And aWAY we GO!!!!

Smoke \’em if you got \’em, boys … this is gonna be fun!!!!

All the best,
Jackie G.
hotinplaya

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:49 pm · Reply

Did you read the remark about if he had bought a Dell in the article

Now, imagine of this guy had bought a Dell Laptop for his son? Not that Michael Dell would be around to help out, as he is busy paying fines for running shabby books, but just think of the potential “gifts” the Tech. Sgt. might have had to endure:
- MS Zune (the brown one)
- Brown bag from supermarket (to match the Zune)
- Music card for Napster, or some other lame, limited music store.
Iraq is not the war!

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 5:51 pm · Reply

Why does it have to be Conservative vs Liberal? Can’t it just be that two draft dodgers got us into an expensive side show to the real war, and they don’t know how to get us out?
wilbur

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:00 pm · Reply

a heart warming story…….that makes me start thinking about my man in iraq.
Rick Sterner

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:11 pm · Reply

Geez, does everything have to become a right versus left politics pissing contest?
Rush

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:13 pm · Reply

We are winning….. We win and America Wins…. Liberals are on the wrong side of hisory again. We are still in Japan, Germany, & South Korea. We will still be in Iraq 60 years from now too. If the libs really wanted us to get out why are they funding ( through congress) the largest US embassy in the world… under constrction in Bagdad right now…..?
...

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:16 pm · Reply

not much for $1 billion
Ralph in '08

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:23 pm · Reply

After watching the both polticle sides in action on MDN, think I will vote for that Ralph Noodle guy..
lbuschjr

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:27 pm · Reply

It doesn’t matter now whether you support the war in Iraq or not – the fact is that if we pull our troops out now, before the new Iraqi government has sufficient means to protect itself and the Iraqi public, the extremists will quickly throw the country into chaos (nothing like what is going on now).

We are doing a lot of good over there. The infrastructure is coming back to a level it hasn’t seen in decades. You know, little things like clean, reliable water, always-on electricity, people able to work and support their families. Silly little things like that.

If the U.S. pulls out now, all that goes to hell. Go read some of the articles about how the Iraqi policemen in many circumstances don’t even have weapons or ammunition (why we don’t give them ammunition, I don’t know). A high school buddy of mine is on his second tour, and he confirms this is the case. You’re not going to be very effective at quelling a riot or stopping terrorists using a stick. Add to that the fact that the terrorists are targeting the police, and maybe you get an idea of what is happening.

Right or wrong, liberal or conservative, millions or billions of dollars, it doesn’t matter. If the U.S. pulls out and leaves the Iraqi government high and dry, we have done the biggest disservice to the Iraqi people imaginable – we’ve left them to the mercy of terrorists, who would love nothing more than to have a place as big as Iraq to train and run free in. It is now our moral and ethical obligation to help the country stabilize itself.

The U.S. started it, the U.S. needs to finish it. By finishing it, I mean getting the Iraqi government stabilized and able to defend itself and the Iraqi people. Otherwise the death toll to this point will be nothing compared to what will occur.
NavyTim

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:43 pm · Reply

OK – Enough. I’m on Active this week due to a shortage the Leadership Training Team had here in ***. After seeing this story, I put it up on my blog, as I am a big supporter of Apple since I bought my G4 almost 4 years ago. I check this site daily – it keeps me up to date with what is happening in the mac world. It’s one site not blocked on the NMCI grid. Chrissy One, Zune Tang, Monkey Boy; I enjoy them all.

I did NOT post this to begin yet another right / left debate between Neo-Cons and Moonbats. The whole premise of my blog was to give Apple the kudos for recognizing a major sale. Hell, would you feel better if he bought it at Best Buy ?

I’m not posting my opinions about what I fight for here – I post my Apple thoughts, my despise the MS World that I grew up in and finally woke up to walk away from.

Sorry this led to yet another political debate.

My two cents….

NavyTim
shen

Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 7:12 pm · Reply

“It doesn’t matter now whether you support the war in Iraq or not – the fact is that if we pull our troops out now, before the new Iraqi government has sufficient means to protect itself and the Iraqi public, the extremists will quickly throw the country into chaos”

true.

we learned that when we (for the most part) pulled out if Afghanistan.

…you know, where terrorists actually hung out BEFORE we created a whole new group of people who hate us in Iraq?

…a place that actually was tied to 9/11?

…..you know, where we actually HAD to go?

any of this ringing a bell?

of coarse if we wanted the Iraqi government to protect the public, maybe we should have acted like it and guarded munition dumps and records offices when we went in, rather than guarding the oil ministry.

no. lets just remember that you don’t changes horses mid-stream. the current administration got us into a mess they saw coming, didn’t plan for, and mismanaged, but if we just stay in a little longer, just a few hundred more american lives, i am sure they will work it all out.

….i just hope we can kill the terrorists faster than we create them. (yes, that deserves an eye roll emoticon)

MW: so far “however” we have been making them FAR faster than we can kill them…..

and NavyTim, while you may not think that you are posting your political opinions, if you refer to one side of the issue as moonbats….

here is the thing, i was taught that defending america meant defending a constitution of ideals of freedom. or as someone else said, “i may not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

just a thought.

i am sorry you posted what is a very cool Apple story, and it is a political debate, whether you think i am moonbat or not, i really would rather that you and your fellow men at arms were home and safe, or barring that at least fighting in a necessary war rather than a slow motion train-wreck/disaster with no point and poor planning.

and yes, i do think that is supporting the troops, whether they call me names or not.