Buccaneer Cheerleaders Go Down Under

... my pants! No, not really. That headline would have read "Buccaneer Cheerleaders Exhausted And In Need Of Electrolytes" and would have been followed by about a billion emoticon smilies. Or, you know, at least a headline that didn't indicate the looks of simultaneous amusement and disappointment on the cheerleaders' faces. I do have a reputation to uphold, after all.

No, the truth is that the Bucs cheerleading squad went to visit American troops in the battle-ravaged, umm, Australia. The video is a little confusing and, not surprisingly, short on details, although they do reveal that they're in the town of Alice Springs. I looked it up and it seems that Pine Gap in the Northern Territory, just a few miles from Alice Springs, is where the Joint Defence Space Research Facility is located, housing about 900 or so US government personnel. I sat here wondering why, of all the US military installations in the world, the cheerleaders would be sent to this one. Then I read who those personnel are.

U.S. government personnel at Pine Gap are believed to be mostly from the National Security Agency and subordinate service-associated agencies, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

So, it's obvious that the NSA and the CIA were able to put their differences aside long enough to fly some hot American ass 8,000 miles across the Pacific to visit them. If anyone can get it done, it's those guys. At this base, it looks like their primary job is to steal satellite signals and codebreak, although the word "missile" appears more than once in the Wikipedia description. So, yeah, these are guys you want to keep happy. Are you sure you only need one squad? Take the Eagles cheerleaders, too, guys. They're patriotic and freaky.

The cheerleaders didn't spend all their time there on offical duty. They had time to see kangaroos, wallabies, dingos, and take in some national landmarks.

We're in Darling Harbour, and for all the MTV fans, this is where they shot Real World. So we're all freaking out; we love the show. So, here's the house they stayed in.

The video itself is disappointingly light on the sexy. They have, like, clothes on and stuff. Although during their variety show for the military, they were all dressed in fatigues from the waist up and tiny shorts on the bottom half. Then they all dropped and did a couple pushups in those outfits. Seriously.

So there's that. It's an interesting video to watch once, but probably not one you'll go back to regularly when everyone else is asleep. Unless you're into sleeping kangaroos. Weirdo.