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Learning Richard
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject:
Re: A date which will live in Infamy |
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Scott in Florida wrote:
| Quote: | On 10 Dec 2005 01:24:46 GMT, "badgolferman"
REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
Scott in Florida, 12/9/2005,7:07:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:20:31 -0500, "qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom
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I'm 26. Been working on cars proffesionally since I was about 20.
Like any job.....get everything you can up front before you sign up.
The pay sucks for awhile, but the long range benefits are great.
How would you like to retire at 46 with a nice income? You can go off
and do what you want to after that.
I hope you decide to serve our country. It isn't always
pleasant...but it is a very necessary job.
btw there ARE some good times...LOL
I will add one more thing. You will be exposed to a large
cross-section of our society. If you keep your calm, you will learn
how to deal with very difficult people and become mature beyond your
years.
I was in when there was a draft.....talk about cross section!
In our little electronics shop on the Big E....we had a black kid from
the South Side of Chicago and a guy who's dad owned a casino in Vegas!
Talk about a melting pot!
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I was watching Chris Matthews interview this Marine Captain who did a
tour in Iraq, and then wrote a book about becoming an officer in the
Marines. The guy is in Harvard business school now.
Anyway, they were talking about how universities are banning the ROTC
because of the gays policy.... I agree with what he said, when he
commented that this attitude tends to cordon off the military. The
liberals who run the colleges don't want the military within 100 km of
their precious students. He believes they are using the gay issue as a
convenient wedge since none of them support Bush anyway.
That does a disservice to our military. We need those little rich boys
to serve, just as we need the non-rich boys to serve. Our military
should represent _all_ of America, not just the working/middle/blue
collar class.
I do wish I could've served, just because to me it would've been a
shortcut to some discipline that it took me a lot longer to learn on my
own.
But... and this is for you Scott... the gentleman in the interview said
"there's hundreds of ways to serve your country". Not that I needed
him to say that... I do serve my WORLD in different ways. I don't need
to tote a rifle on my back to be a patriot.
Oh yeah, he also said that showing flag - draped coffins coming home
was the highest form of honor -- that it would cause ALL Americans to
own a piece of this war.
Rumsfeld should be fired.
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Learning Richard
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject:
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Scott in Florida wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:20:31 -0500, "qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom
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I'm 26. Been working on cars proffesionally since I was about 20.
Like any job.....get everything you can up front before you sign up.
The pay sucks for awhile, but the long range benefits are great.
How would you like to retire at 46 with a nice income? You can go off
and do what you want to after that.
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Moe
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject:
Re: A date which will live in Infamy |
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badgolferman wrote:
| Quote: | Gary L. Burnore, 12/9/2005, 7:52:19 AM,
dnbukv$ofv$3@blackhelicopter.databasix.com> wrote:
That and because the DS knows who the pussy is and it's much easier to
keep everyone else in line by slamming one pussy against the locker
from time to time. He knows not to slam someone wh could have any
possibility of slamming back.
Have you ever been to boot camp? The instructor is itching for someone
to raise their hand against them. Do you think you would stand a
chance against these professionally trained, pissed-off, physically
gifted, very intelligent brain washers?
You and Richard would be fodder for them in every way wherever you
might meet up. I'd love to see you try to match wits with a Drill
Instructor sometime.
Intelligent drill sargent? Not when I was drafted in 1968. I had a |
feeling it was going to be a bad two years when the field first couldn't
read the names on the roster at the start of basic training. Sure
enough things went downhill from there. It was a two year nightmare.
I was 19 years old, 1-A and couldn't get a decent job. That was the
system then. I have lots of good and bad memories of those two years.
Best deal was the GI bill, after the service, it helped to make
college possible.
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Scott in Florida
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:
Re: A date which will live in Infamy |
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On 10 Dec 2005 01:57:53 -0800, "Learning Richard"
<learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote:
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Scott in Florida wrote:
On 10 Dec 2005 01:24:46 GMT, "badgolferman"
REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
Scott in Florida, 12/9/2005,7:07:02 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:20:31 -0500, "qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom
wrote:
I'm 26. Been working on cars proffesionally since I was about 20.
Like any job.....get everything you can up front before you sign up.
The pay sucks for awhile, but the long range benefits are great.
How would you like to retire at 46 with a nice income? You can go off
and do what you want to after that.
I hope you decide to serve our country. It isn't always
pleasant...but it is a very necessary job.
btw there ARE some good times...LOL
I will add one more thing. You will be exposed to a large
cross-section of our society. If you keep your calm, you will learn
how to deal with very difficult people and become mature beyond your
years.
I was in when there was a draft.....talk about cross section!
In our little electronics shop on the Big E....we had a black kid from
the South Side of Chicago and a guy who's dad owned a casino in Vegas!
Talk about a melting pot!
I was watching Chris Matthews interview this Marine Captain who did a
tour in Iraq, and then wrote a book about becoming an officer in the
Marines. The guy is in Harvard business school now.
Anyway, they were talking about how universities are banning the ROTC
because of the gays policy.... I agree with what he said, when he
commented that this attitude tends to cordon off the military. The
liberals who run the colleges don't want the military within 100 km of
their precious students. He believes they are using the gay issue as a
convenient wedge since none of them support Bush anyway.
That does a disservice to our military. We need those little rich boys
to serve, just as we need the non-rich boys to serve. Our military
should represent _all_ of America, not just the working/middle/blue
collar class.
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Well the only reason the military isn't a true cross section, now...is
the draft has been done away with.
I've thought for a long time that that is a mistake.
Everyone should serve...just like in Israel...IMHO
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I do wish I could've served, just because to me it would've been a
shortcut to some discipline that it took me a lot longer to learn on my
own.
But... and this is for you Scott... the gentleman in the interview said
"there's hundreds of ways to serve your country". Not that I needed
him to say that... I do serve my WORLD in different ways. I don't need
to tote a rifle on my back to be a patriot.
Oh yeah, he also said that showing flag - draped coffins coming home
was the highest form of honor -- that it would cause ALL Americans to
own a piece of this war.
Rumsfeld should be fired.
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Scott in Florida
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject:
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On 10 Dec 2005 01:59:03 -0800, "Learning Richard"
<learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote:
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Scott in Florida wrote:
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:20:31 -0500, "qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom
wrote:
I'm 26. Been working on cars proffesionally since I was about 20.
Like any job.....get everything you can up front before you sign up.
The pay sucks for awhile, but the long range benefits are great.
How would you like to retire at 46 with a nice income? You can go off
and do what you want to after that.
military welfare
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Nope....it is an earned benefit.
And it surely is earned!
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