At the Lebowski bar The Reykjavík Nightlife witnessed a massive US invasion over the weekend. Photo/Stefán
Task & Purpose: US Troops Deploy ‘Overwhelming Force’ Against Iceland’s Beer Supplies
U.S. troops landed in Iceland last week ahead of the start the largest NATO military exercise since the Cold War, and apparently, they left their mark in the most appropriate way possible: by drinking every last beer in the nation’s capital.
A significant number of bars in downtown Reykjavík were forced to make emergency beer runs under the onslaught of thirsty American sailors and Marines in town for the start of Trident Juncture 18, Iceland Magazine reports.
Local media estimate that 6,000 and 7,000 U.S. military personnel exhausted beer cellars across the Icelandic capital in the span of a single weekend.
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WNU editor: six to seven thousand American sailors and Marines in downtown Reykjavi. That must have been quite a sight.
And the Icelandic girls are supposed to be uniformly pretty. Was this a reprise of the “Overpaid, oversexed, and over here” complaint the Brits once had?
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