Welcome To CombatCritic's "TravelValue: Italy"

Italy, the home of my ancestors and beautiful wife, is a land of wonderful food and people, beautiful architecture and landscapes, historical places and objects, diverse inhabitants and climates, simplicity and chaos, and numerous other exciting and sometimes frustrating contradictions.

In TravelValue: Italy, I share with you my travels and experiences not just as a tourist, having spent many months there over countless visits, but as a resident for three years during my tour of duty at NATO's Southern Region Headquarters in Naples where I was the post's Operations Officer.

Over the past 20 years, I have visited the vast majority of Italy's regions and provinces, eaten wonderful meals in countless restaurants, stayed in beautiful and sometimes ancient accommodations, and traveled economically on most of the country's transportation conveyances, all while getting the best possible value for my dollar!

We rarely spend more than $75 per night for a place to stay or $100 for a meal for two, yet my wife and I stay in safe, comfortable seafront hotels as well as apartments in the center of Italy's most popular cities and eat some of the best food the country has to offer. How? Through local knowledge, diligent research, and military persistence, I find and share with you, my loyal readers, the BEST VALUES ITALY HAS TO OFFER.

Enjoy reading my blog, which you will see grow and change over the coming months as I reorganize and provide handy new travel guides for Italy and its most popular regions and cities.

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Civilian Translations To CombatCritic's "Military" Review Ratings

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One Bomb Equates To:

"Fucked Up Beyond All Repair"

Two Bombs Equates To

"Tits Up" 

Three Bombs Equates To:

"Situation Normal, All Fucked Up"

Four Bombs Equates To:

"Bend Over, Here It Comes Again"

Five Bombs Equates To:

"Continue Mission"

Six Bombs Equates To:

"Good To Go"

Seven Bombs Equates To:

"Shits & Grins"

Eight Bombs Equates To:

"What-The-Fuck ... Over!"

Nine Bombs Equates To:

"U.S. Marine Response To A Verbal Greeting Or As An Expression Of Enthusiasm"

Ten Bombs Equates To:

"Phonetic spelling of the acronym HUA, which stands for 'Heard Understood Acknowledged.' Originally used by the British in the late 1800's in Afghanistan. More recently adopted by the United States Army to indicate an affirmative or a pleased response." - Urban Dictionary

"The Department of Military Science and Leadership, University of Tennessee claim HOOAH 'refers to or means anything except no' ... Regardless of its meaning ... the term is an expression of high morale, confidence, motivation and spirit." - WarChronicle.com

"The U.S. Air Force stole 'HOOAH' from the Army because we were part of the Army until 1947 and rather than waste a bunch of time coming up with something new and unique, we said 'fuck it, let's go with HOOAH' ... thanks Army ... HOOAH! - CombatCritic

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