There is a beverage to be found sloshing at the depths of our national soul and that is beer
Clientele was an eclectic mixture of tourists and locals very much enjoying beer
Despite being clearly understaffed the customer service was stoic-sanguine adequate with moments of thoughtful and erudite
Prices were average
Dogs are allowed
Place was clean
We had Family Style bar food of:
Wings
Birra Tacos - 3 corn tortillas, beef, mixed cheese, cilantro, onion, in house marinade with their Truckee Blonde Ale & side of dipping broth
Bison Burger - Scrumdiddlyumptious
Sweet potato fries
We're still recovering from Super Bowl so we shared a Tahoe American Lager - American 5% ABV because a little bit of beer is a nice feeling
Did what they're in business to do
No automatic gratuity was added to our bill
No one here offered to commit fraud to reward us, pay us or compensate us for posting 5 star reviews of this business.
The owners of this business like their Freedom so they have a Military and Veterans Discount as a thank you to Veterans with a publicly disclosed daily Veteran Discount which provides resource to ensure Veterans (rare 7% of the population) and GIs (rare one-half of one percent of the population) opportunity to participate in American Dream Veterans and GIs' sacrifices have made possible for 100% of the population.
No complaints
February is Black History Month
Marcella "Marcy" A. Hayes, high school National Honor Society member, was a college Reserve Officer Training Corps "ROTC" cadet at the University of Wisconsin "UW" where she began to have an interest in flying. In 1977, Hayes was selected for ROTC Advanced Camp in Fort Riley, Kansas. She was impressive. In a physical training test involving five different events, Hayes earned 497 out of 500 possible points.
She was one of only two women on the UW's ROTC Tri-Service Exhibition Drill Team. With ROTC Hayes developed her command voice and leadership skills.
Hayes was selected to command a company of cadets in formations for the Parent's Day Parade at Fort Riley. "I had instructors that didn't try to put limits on you--that was so important." One of her ROTC Advanced Camp instructors, pilot Lt. Col. Bobby Pedigo, encouraged Hayes to apply to flight school. After ROTC Advanced Camp, Hayes took Army Airborne training at Fort Benning, Georgia, to learn how to "jump out of perfectly good airplanes."
Hayes earned a Bachelor's degree in English and was then immediately commissioned into the US Army in 1978.
In 1979, 23 year-old Second Lieutenant Hayes graduated Helicopter Flight Training at the US Army Aviation Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama. Helicopter Flight Training required she earn her Paratrooper Badge and pass the Flight Aptitude Selection Test as well as the Flight Pphysical. This accomplishment made her the 55th woman to earn pilots' wings, the first black American woman to graduate from this Army Flight School and- what she's most known for- the very first black American woman to earn her US military aviator wings.
January1980, she married her Hawaiian-raised University of Hawaii Psychology graduate Army Flight School classmate Dennis Ng. She is still married, now 43 years, and the couple has three children.
After receiving her wings, Ng was assigned to the 394th Transportation Battalion in Germany where she became the first black American soldier and the first woman leader at that unit. There Ng came up against an ignominious subgroup within her unit known as the vile "No Blacks, No Broads," and faced similar disgusting racism and sexism from a few of her superior officers, who shamefully wouldn't let her fly.
Ng said, "That's the challenge, to keep telling young people, and especially young ladies, don't let the circumstances of where you are, regardless of how rough it was, regardless of how bad it was, define who you are. Because that's not who you are."
Ng and her husband took up motorcycling in the 1990s and are still active with Christian Motorcyclists Association (CMA)
After moving from base to base in Germany, United States and South Korea, Ng eventually became Commander of 49th Transportation Battalion at Fort Hood, Texas.
She Served total of 22 years before retiring from Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2000.
Lieutenant Colonel Ng (Ret.) is a Lifetime Member of Disabled American Veterans (DAV).
2022, she was inducted into University of Wisconsin-Madison Army ROTC Badger Battalion Hall of Fame. She joined other illustrious alumni such as:
Charles Lindbergh- 1st solo, non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
John R Reynoldson - Silver Star Recipient
Edward M Coffman, PhD - Infantry Officer Korea. Professor of Military History
Brigadier General Lewis B Harned, MD - Veteran of WWII, Korea, & Desert Storm. Commander 13th Medical Detachment
Colonel Harold P Mueller - Commander, Vietnam. Distinguished Service Cross & Silver Star Recipient
Matthew S Smith - Olympian 2004 Games, Silver Medalist 2007 Pan-A read more