i can only imagine what a solider thinks when he is killing people and his friends are dying for our country and we have some pussy whining about teasing kids.
Some of you guys should go to iraq and show them how to be real soliders…
[quote]blok wrote:
i can only imagine what a solider thinks when he is killing people and his friends are dying for our country and we have some pussy whining about teasing kids.
Some of you guys should go to iraq and show them how to be real soliders…[/quote]
Agreed straight up! Listen to the men that have been there and for god’s sake develop a fuckin perspective!
That’s terrible …they should have been using a klondike bar as motivation not a bottle of water ,But I guess it’s probably to warm for that there…Any way that’s still some funny shit .
[quote]Dweezil wrote:
Hack Wilson wrote:
I didn’t say any of that. But I have respect the mental gymnastics that you went through to try and take a jab at me. It’s pretty nonsensical and inane. But…at least you tried. Nice work here.
Well, you made the implication in that thread more than once than anyone making less than $80,000 a year (that was the figure, wasn’t it?) was essentially an unkempt thug. The majority of military personnel and police officers make under that threshold. I’m just wondering how you qualify that statement when the group you refer to negatively consists of people you apparently support.
Inane? Yes. Nonsensical? No.[/quote]
Find the quote and post it here. Thanks for taking such a keen interest in everything I write. Always nice to meet a fan.
[quote]jmarshburn wrote:
$.05 just because…
I just got back from Iraq …[/quote]
Great post.
[quote]jmarshburn wrote:
$.05 just because…
I just got back from Iraq (like days ago… not weeks or months). I am a platoon leader of those type vehicles depicted and saw on occasion my soldiers doing that type of stupid crap. I would tell their squad leader (an NCO, because they run shit) to fix it and he would. That is likely what happened here. That was the last vehicle in a convoy… which ALWAYS has kids running after it, begging for chocolate, money, soccer balls, water and anything else. I was in Baghdad and Mosul to name a few places over the last 16 months and it is not that the kids are starving or anything like that, we (as a military) have taught these kids that begging is the way to get things. For that manner we have taught the adult civil and military leaders that “begging” the coalition is the way to get more money for their different projects (after they generally take their % cut for themselves), instead of finding creative ways to finance and/or get things done on their own. Were those two soldiers wrong? Yes, wrong for being stupid and stupid for filming it (not to mention the posting it on the internet… another story is how many soldiers get in trouble for YouTube and MySpace crap). Do they deserve PUNISHMENT… probably not. As an officer or NCO if you make the on the spot correction that is enough… soldiers usually do not like to disappoint their leadership.
Speaking of kids… after Ramadan (the muslim holy month) Al Qadeia and others were giving their kids realistic looking toy guns and having them play with the guns by pointing at us on patrol trying to get us to shoot a kid for the bad press… we didn’t, but what dickheads to put their own kids in jeapordy like that.
If this video truly offends you you really need to move to France or something like that. It is not the image we like to portray, as a leader if I saw it I would stop it, but I can think of many other things to focus my attention on… like bringing your sons, brothers and neighbors home alive and in one piece.
Okay, rant over… flame on… but maybe you could put all that anger over this video into motivation and take your ass to the gym![/quote]
Nuff’ said. Glad you’re here and made it back safely.
[quote]jmarshburn wrote:
$.05 just because…
I just got back from Iraq (like days ago… not weeks or months). I am a platoon leader of those type vehicles depicted and saw on occasion my soldiers doing that type of stupid crap. I would tell their squad leader (an NCO, because they run shit) to fix it and he would. That is likely what happened here. That was the last vehicle in a convoy… which ALWAYS has kids running after it, begging for chocolate, money, soccer balls, water and anything else. I was in Baghdad and Mosul to name a few places over the last 16 months and it is not that the kids are starving or anything like that, we (as a military) have taught these kids that begging is the way to get things. For that manner we have taught the adult civil and military leaders that “begging” the coalition is the way to get more money for their different projects (after they generally take their % cut for themselves), instead of finding creative ways to finance and/or get things done on their own. Were those two soldiers wrong? Yes, wrong for being stupid and stupid for filming it (not to mention the posting it on the internet… another story is how many soldiers get in trouble for YouTube and MySpace crap). Do they deserve PUNISHMENT… probably not. As an officer or NCO if you make the on the spot correction that is enough… soldiers usually do not like to disappoint their leadership.
Speaking of kids… after Ramadan (the muslim holy month) Al Qadeia and others were giving their kids realistic looking toy guns and having them play with the guns by pointing at us on patrol trying to get us to shoot a kid for the bad press… we didn’t, but what dickheads to put their own kids in jeapordy like that.
If this video truly offends you you really need to move to France or something like that. It is not the image we like to portray, as a leader if I saw it I would stop it, but I can think of many other things to focus my attention on… like bringing your sons, brothers and neighbors home alive and in one piece.
Okay, rant over… flame on… but maybe you could put all that anger over this video into motivation and take your ass to the gym![/quote]
Welcome back.
Was what those soldiers did wrong? YES
Was it a big deal though? NO
Are there some absolutely retarded over-reactions on both sides on this thread? YES
Am I going to have a shake and catch a nap now? YES
The kids get them back.
[quote]PGJ wrote:
jmarshburn wrote:
$.05 just because…
I just got back from Iraq (like days ago… not weeks or months). I am a platoon leader of those type vehicles depicted and saw on occasion my soldiers doing that type of stupid crap. I would tell their squad leader (an NCO, because they run shit) to fix it and he would. That is likely what happened here. That was the last vehicle in a convoy… which ALWAYS has kids running after it, begging for chocolate, money, soccer balls, water and anything else. I was in Baghdad and Mosul to name a few places over the last 16 months and it is not that the kids are starving or anything like that, we (as a military) have taught these kids that begging is the way to get things. For that manner we have taught the adult civil and military leaders that “begging” the coalition is the way to get more money for their different projects (after they generally take their % cut for themselves), instead of finding creative ways to finance and/or get things done on their own. Were those two soldiers wrong? Yes, wrong for being stupid and stupid for filming it (not to mention the posting it on the internet… another story is how many soldiers get in trouble for YouTube and MySpace crap). Do they deserve PUNISHMENT… probably not. As an officer or NCO if you make the on the spot correction that is enough… soldiers usually do not like to disappoint their leadership.
Speaking of kids… after Ramadan (the muslim holy month) Al Qadeia and others were giving their kids realistic looking toy guns and having them play with the guns by pointing at us on patrol trying to get us to shoot a kid for the bad press… we didn’t, but what dickheads to put their own kids in jeapordy like that.
If this video truly offends you you really need to move to France or something like that. It is not the image we like to portray, as a leader if I saw it I would stop it, but I can think of many other things to focus my attention on… like bringing your sons, brothers and neighbors home alive and in one piece.
Okay, rant over… flame on… but maybe you could put all that anger over this video into motivation and take your ass to the gym!
Nuff’ said. Glad you’re here and made it back safely.
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Yes. Welcome back and I’m glad you’ve gotten home safely. And thank you for your service.