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  • #16
    Re: Our Military is Like?

    Originally posted by salmoned View Post
    Our military is like a baby that never grows up. No matter how much you feed it, or how proud it makes you feel, it never advances beyond waving it’s arms & legs, producing varying amounts of noise and copious amounts of waste.
    Originally posted by cyleet99 View Post
    This will be a fun thread to read tomorrow. Salmoned, you go ahead and push those buttons.
    Originally posted by Adri View Post
    *settles in with popcorn and a soda to watch*
    Originally posted by matapule View Post
    Originally posted by Random View Post
    Dude, don't make me ignore you.
    I'm glad you're feeling frisky with your first-amendment rights. Sentiments from guys like you make guys like me feel all warm & fuzzy that our struggles have been worth the effort.

    I'm also glad that this board has an "Ignore Poster" feature, too! You have a nice life now.

    P.S.-- Leo, U'ilani, thanks for the picture. I'm gonna get some use out of that on other boards...
    Youth may be wasted on the young, but retirement is wasted on the old.
    Live like you're dying, invest like you're immortal.
    We grow old if we stop playing, but it's never too late to have a happy childhood.
    Forget about who you were-- discover who you are.

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    • #17
      Re: Our Military is Like?

      Our military is like an adult diaper to the bedwetters. They hate the idea of a diaper, but appreciate the fact that the bed don't stink, and that they can just keep right on soiling themselves without concern.
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      • #18
        Re: Our Military is Like?

        Wow. I never thought to put TWO guys on my Ignore list in so short a time.

        Any more volunteers?
        Beijing 8-08-08 to 8-24-08

        Tiananmen Square 4-15-89 to 6-04-89

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        • #19
          Re: Our Military is Like?

          Originally posted by Nords View Post
          Sentiments from guys like you make guys like me feel all warm & fuzzy that our struggles have been worth the effort.
          Okay, I'll bite, what struggles would those be?
          Peace, Love, and Local Grindz

          People who form FIRM opinions with so little knowledge only pretend to be open-minded. They select their facts like food from a buffet. David R. Dow

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          • #20
            Re: Our Military is Like?

            There's a bunch of dead guys from assorted nations that indicate otherwise.
            “First we fought the preliminary round for the k***s and now we’re gonna fight the main event for the n*****s."
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            • #21
              Re: Our Military is Like?

              Eh, I already had TK on "Ignore", so no changes there.

              Originally posted by matapule View Post
              Okay, I'll bite, what struggles would those be?
              24 years, including 20 in the submarine force. Ballistic missile submarines at first and later attack submarines with the activities described in "Blind Man's Bluff". Retired since 2002.

              Spouse did nearly 18 years of active duty and just retired from the Navy Reserve-- meteorologist, oceanographer, & various Reserve contingency planning/disaster recovery billets.

              My nephew's carrying on the tradition. He started with nearly four years with a Ranger battalion-- Afghanistan in Oct 2001 & mid-2002, followed by Iraq in late 2002-early 2003. He followed that up with USMA '07 and has just finished Ranger School enroute his new Ranger unit. He's considering Special Forces.

              When our kid graduates from high school she's considering the family business via NROTC.

              When I was in Monterey in the 1980s the students from the Defense Language Institute used to come to the school to share our gym. Many of them would wear t-shirts that would say in huge letters on the front "We're learning Russian..." (or whatever their assigned language was). On the back it'd say "... so you don't have to."
              Youth may be wasted on the young, but retirement is wasted on the old.
              Live like you're dying, invest like you're immortal.
              We grow old if we stop playing, but it's never too late to have a happy childhood.
              Forget about who you were-- discover who you are.

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              • #22
                Re: Our Military is Like?

                Originally posted by Nords View Post
                24 years, including 20 in the submarine force. Ballistic missile submarines at first and later attack submarines
                And how would you feel about defying an order from a commanding officer that you felt was unjust or illegal?
                Peace, Love, and Local Grindz

                People who form FIRM opinions with so little knowledge only pretend to be open-minded. They select their facts like food from a buffet. David R. Dow

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                • #23
                  Re: Our Military is Like?

                  Originally posted by Nords View Post
                  "We're learning Russian..." (or whatever their assigned language was). On the back it'd say "... so you don't have to."
                  Haha, cute
                  "By concealing your desires, you may trick people into being cruel about the wrong thing." --Steven Aylett, Fain the Sorcerer
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                  Amateurs talk technology, professionals talk conditions." --(unknown)

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                  • #24
                    Re: Our Military is Like?

                    Originally posted by matapule View Post
                    And how would you feel about defying an order from a commanding officer that you felt was unjust or illegal?
                    Did you have an anti-military experience?
                    Beijing 8-08-08 to 8-24-08

                    Tiananmen Square 4-15-89 to 6-04-89

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                    • #25
                      Re: Our Military is Like?

                      Originally posted by Random View Post
                      Did you have an anti-military experience?
                      Yep, the Viet Nam War and the Iraq War.
                      Peace, Love, and Local Grindz

                      People who form FIRM opinions with so little knowledge only pretend to be open-minded. They select their facts like food from a buffet. David R. Dow

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                      • #26
                        Re: Our Military is Like?

                        Originally posted by matapule View Post
                        Yep, the Viet Nam War and the Iraq War.
                        That's it? Because you make it sounds much more personal than the issues of today.
                        Beijing 8-08-08 to 8-24-08

                        Tiananmen Square 4-15-89 to 6-04-89

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                        • #27
                          Re: Our Military is Like?

                          Originally posted by Random View Post
                          That's it? Because you make it sounds much more personal than the issues of today.
                          To paraphrase, those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it...over, and over, and over again. You are too young to remember.
                          Peace, Love, and Local Grindz

                          People who form FIRM opinions with so little knowledge only pretend to be open-minded. They select their facts like food from a buffet. David R. Dow

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                          • #28
                            Re: Our Military is Like?

                            I see, Nords' expressed opinion is merely supporting his 'family business', just like a casino worker might support expansion of legalized gambling, a criminal might support lighter sentencing guidelines, or the Carpenter's Union might support the rail project. His position bears no reliable relationship with objective reality, due to his economic and egocentric bias. Well and good, I appreciate the historical insight which bred that perspective. Each generation of my family also served in the military, but none chose to make it a profession, the principal product (unmitigated waste) being too unsavory.
                            May I always be found beneath your contempt.

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                            • #29
                              Re: Our Military is Like?

                              I can't stand it!!

                              Originally posted by timkona View Post
                              Our military is like an adult diaper to the bedwetters. They hate the idea of a diaper, but appreciate the fact that the bed don't stink, and that they can just keep right on soiling themselves without concern.
                              TK, well said!
                              So, salmoned, a couple of questions....

                              1. Whatcha gonna do with those diapers? If you didn't use them, the mess would just be bigger and smellier and get all over you.

                              2. To what are you referring when you keep repeating "waste?"

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                              • #30
                                Re: Our Military is Like?

                                Originally posted by matapule View Post
                                You are too young to remember.
                                There we go with the old age argument again.

                                We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

                                — U.S. President Bill Clinton
                                USA TODAY, page 2A
                                11 March 1993

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