[quote]Hack Wilson wrote:
BarneyFife wrote:
Hack Wilson wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
When my country holds a bayonet to my back to get me to fight, it is no longer my country anymore…
Yeah. Today’s 18-25 crowd won’t fight. Oh, unless it’s for a Playstation 3, that is!
Well now. I understand that you haven’t served in the military. You said that you had a full ride football scholarship, so the choice was easy. Well what about loose tool. He started his college 3 years late to serve. Why couldn’t you be more like him Since you are so worried about other people not being in the military, why don’t we discuss your lack of a service record. Are you over the age of 42 hack? If your not, welll then maybe you should just go on down to the recruiting office and sign up. You might even be able to go through OCS and become an officer, with your college degree and all. And think of all the option that you have to serve! Not just active duty, but reserves and national guard. I guess the generation before mine isn’t really keen on fighting either.
Your hatred for law enforcement is really misplaced. The “war on terror” isn’t just being fought by soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan. Everyday local state and federal police are fighting the war on terror. 9/11 could have been delayed, stopped, or its effects lessened by better law enforcement. Ourgovernment has INS agents that are making sure that we don’t have undocumented foreign nationals in our country, going to flight school or what not.
Our borders? Protected by POLICE not by the army. Hate to tell you that.
Yeah. I didn’t get most of that. Pretty disjointed. I’m sure you meant well.
You make a lot of assumtions about me. It’s fun. Do it some more. I can only make two assumptions about you:
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You should put up an avatar in which you are wearing a SHIRT.
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You are not very bright.
Now we can’t have it both ways on here with cops. We have threads saying they’re nuts and abuse their power. And we have threads thanking them for their valiant service. I’m in the middle. I think most cops do it for a job. Some do it to REALLY make a difference. And some do it to exercise their oversized egos after the get buzzed on power. My guess: You fall in the third category.
Since you are little more than dumb kid, I’ll tell you what it was like for people my age, at the end of the Cold War: The military was not the place our ‘best and brightest’ went. It was where the kids who couldn’t get into to college went. It’s where the vocational schook kids went when they washed out as electricians because they couldn’t stay sober.
If you think that I should have ditched my scholarship and an opporutinty - one day - to play in the NFL (and at the VERY least get a great education for nothing), well that shows why you don’t have the sense to NOT post pics of you with your shirt off.
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I’m not getting in the middle of a fight but I will take issue with one point.
The military and the Army at the end of the Cold War ,which I’ll define as late 80’s, early 90’s, attracted a talented bunch of people. The reforms that took place in the late 70’s and early 80’s really kicked in by then. The Army, in particular had a high state of combat readiness and massive numbers of troops. Equipment from the Reagan buildup was new and in good shape.
Desert Storm was the test and the military tore up the oppostion at all levels.
I joined with an undergraduate degree and went to grad school when I left the Army. I wasn’t that unusual. Lot’s of young officers from that era didn’t reenlist because the opposition was gone and the military downsized.
It wasn’t that I didn’t have options, I just wanted to do something different. I wanted to serve my country and I was looking for some adventure before I started a real career. Very common reasons.
Alright gentlemen back to it.
