why that was nice

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

How about pulling your head out of your *** and realizing that a lot of those Iraqi kids are also ******* bombers. Guess you missed that memo, didn't you? After 3 tours, I really don't feel like listening to whiny bleeding heart liberals who have ZERO CLUE what it's like over there trying to tell myself and my brothers in arms how to conduct ourselves. If you don't like it, GTFO of the country.

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[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

How about pulling your head out of your *** and realizing that a lot of those Iraqi kids are also ******* bombers. Guess you missed that memo, didn't you? After 3 tours, I really don't feel like listening to whiny bleeding heart liberals who have ZERO CLUE what it's like over there trying to tell myself and my brothers in arms how to conduct ourselves. If you don't like it, GTFO of the country.

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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

How about pulling your head out of your *** and realizing that a lot of those Iraqi kids are also ******* bombers. Guess you missed that memo, didn't you? After 3 tours, I really don't feel like listening to whiny bleeding heart liberals who have ZERO CLUE what it's like over there trying to tell myself and my brothers in arms how to conduct ourselves. If you don't like it, GTFO of the country.

Please don't call him a liberal. Thats insulting to liberals, and they don't deserve to be associated with his outlandish statements. You can be opposed to their ideology, but comparing them to 1meangta is hitting below the belt.

btw thanks for serving.

 

[jjski78 10+ year member]

Please don't call him a liberal. Thats insulting to liberals, and they don't deserve to be associated with his outlandish statements. You can be opposed to their ideology, but comparing them to 1meangta is hitting below the belt.
btw thanks for serving.

Sorry. Instead of liberal, how about retarded jackass who is suffering from a lack of oxygen to the brain due to the fact that his head is about shoulder deep up his own ***. Does that work better??

Oh, and you're welcome. 7 years down, 13 to go!

 

[xploit2 10+ year member]

This scares me for two reasons.
There are ignorant people out there like this,

AND

There are people who do not care enough to even glance at their own writing.

~Levi

Then make your country proud! get listed in the Army. And go to WAR!

Everybody !! Common!

 

[jjski78 10+ year member]

Then make your country proud! get listed in the Army. And go to WAR!Everybody !! Common!

Just remember...Napalm does stick to babies:uhoh:

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Sorry. Instead of liberal, how about retarded jackass who is suffering from a lack of oxygen to the brain due to the fact that his head is about shoulder deep up his own ***. Does that work better??
Oh, and you're welcome. 7 years down, 13 to go!

The correction is very much appreciated!

Dam, 20 years. Thanks for your dedicated service. You certainly get my respect for allowing the rest of us live comfortably and in ignorance of what it really takes to maintain our way of life.

 

[jjski78 10+ year member]

The correction is very much appreciated!
Dam, 20 years. Thanks for your dedicated service. You certainly get my respect for allowing the rest of us live comfortably and in ignorance of what it really takes to maintain our way of life.

20 years is nothing if you look at it. I'll be 41 when I get out. With a retirement check! And still young enough to start a second carreer(maybe a mobile electronics shop??!!). And since my wife and I are both active duty, we make a pretty good salary combined. Money is always good! But Iraq is shitty.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Maybe we can pick a fight with a cool country next. Poland?? Then we can deploy to Germany!! MMMM Hefeweisen!!!!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

20 years is nothing if you look at it. I'll be 41 when I get out. With a retirement check! And still young enough to start a second carreer(maybe a mobile electronics shop??!!). And since my wife and I are both active duty, we make a pretty good salary combined. Money is always good! But Iraq is shitty.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Maybe we can pick a fight with a cool country next. Poland?? Then we can deploy to Germany!! MMMM Hefeweisen!!!!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

my cousin is kinda in the same boat you'll be in.. he's 44 and had to find something to do. he got into making guitars. he absolutely loves it.

 

[CBFryman2 5,000+ posts]

We rR in ur kuntry, drinking your beers.

-US after invading Germany...Agian-

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

20 years is nothing if you look at it. I'll be 41 when I get out. With a retirement check! And still young enough to start a second carreer(maybe a mobile electronics shop??!!). And since my wife and I are both active duty, we make a pretty good salary combined. Money is always good! But Iraq is shitty.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Maybe we can pick a fight with a cool country next. Poland?? Then we can deploy to Germany!! MMMM Hefeweisen!!!!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Sounds like you got yourself a pretty good thing going, but i still think 20 years is a long time. I don't think i would last a week in the armed forces. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Hey, if your wife gets pregnant, would they make sure that only one of you was deployed at a time.. so the other one could watch the kid? Or would they just be like 'screw you, find a babysitter'? Just wondering //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

so if you go into a 'blind rage' just by watching a video from the comfort of your home (in the best friggen country in the world), imagine how the soldiers feel when they watch their buddies die from a an IED controlled by a 13 year old.
I'm not defending any inappropriate actions by anyone in uniform. Everyone has their breaking point, its a little more understandable for a soldier to lose his cool in combat, than it is for you to lose yours watching a video. There is no excuse to insult everyone in uniform.

Very valid point.

 

[jjski78 10+ year member]

Sounds like you got yourself a pretty good thing going, but i still think 20 years is a long time. I don't think i would last a week in the armed forces. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
Hey, if your wife gets pregnant, would they make sure that only one of you was deployed at a time.. so the other one could watch the kid? Or would they just be like 'screw you, find a babysitter'? Just wondering //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

Actually, as of my last deployment, I am now non-deployable. I guess between the wonderful Anthrax vaccine and all the crap I've breathed in (jet exhaust, burning poo, more jet exhaust, and a lot more burning poo) I've developed a nasty case of Asthma. They didn't kick me out:woot: but now I'm not allowed to wear a gas mask. Has somethinig to do with the fact that it makes me turn blue and pass out. But no gas mask=no deployments. But if I was still deployable, they "do everything in their power" not to deploy us at the same time. Take that for what you will.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has his way.

New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel said Sunday he sees his idea as a way to deter politicians from launching wars. He believes a draft would bolster U.S. troop levels that are currently insufficient to cover potential future action in Iran, North Korea and Iraq.

"There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft, and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way," Rangel said. (Your e-mails on draft)

Rangel, a veteran of the Korean War who has unsuccessfully sponsored legislation on conscription in the past, said he will propose a measure early next year.

In 2003, he proposed a draft covering people age 18 to 26. This year, he offered a plan to mandate military service for men and women between age 18 and 42. It went nowhere in the Republican-led Congress.

Democrats will control the House and Senate come January because of their victories in the November 7 mid-term election.

At a time when some lawmakers are urging the military to send more troops to Iraq, "I don't see how anyone can support the war and not support the draft," said Rangel.

He also proposed a draft in January 2003, before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Standby Reserve, said he agreed that the U.S. does not have enough people in the military.

"I think we can do this with an all-voluntary service, all-voluntary Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy. And if we can't, then we'll look for some other option," said Graham, who is assigned as a reserve judge to the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.

Rangel and Graham appeared on "Face the Nation" on CBS.

Polls show most Americans oppose a draft

Rangel, the next chairman of the House tax-writing committee, said he worried the military is strained by its overseas commitments.

"If we're going to challenge Iran and challenge North Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops to Iraq, we can't do that without a draft," Rangel said.

He said having a draft would not necessarily mean everyone called to duty would have to serve. Instead, "young people (would) commit themselves to a couple of years in service to this great republic, whether it's our seaports, our airports, in schools, in hospitals," with a promise of educational benefits at the end of service.

Graham said he believes the all-voluntary military "represents the country pretty well in terms of ethnic makeup, economic background."

Repeated polls have shown that about seven in 10 Americans oppose reinstatement of the draft and officials say they do not expect to restart conscription.

Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Congress in June 2005 that "there isn't a chance in the world that the draft will be brought back."

Yet the prospect of the long global fight against terrorism and the continuing U.S. commitment to stabilizing Iraq have kept the idea in the public's mind.

The military drafted conscripts during the Civil War, both world wars and between 1948 and 1973.

The Selective Service System, an agency independent of the Defense Department, keeps an updated registry of men age 18-25 -- now about 16 million -- from which to supply untrained draftees that would supplement the professional all-volunteer armed forces.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/19/rangel.draft.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

I think he makes a very good point. The politicians might think a little bit harder about sending troops into harms way, if there was a chance that it could be their own kids going.

short of ww3, its never going to happen, but maybe it should.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

Actually its becuase of people like this that I am glad there is NOT a draft.

How would you like to have him in your unit?