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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on August 22, 2002, 12:40:31 PM
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http://www.heraldonline.com/local/v-print/story/1651811p-1678019c.html
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But don't worry - the New England Patriots will be just fine this year.
Oh, wait.
Ok, you were talking about something else completely.
My bad! ;)
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I tried to re-up. Bastards said I was to old.
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They wouldn't allow me to come back from retirement. :(
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In today's society, it seems more people want to take more than they want to give,"
Direct result of your liberalism, Sandman. Enjoy the bed you liberals have made for us the last 30-40 years. :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Direct result of your liberalism, Sandman. Enjoy the bed you liberals have made for us the last 30-40 years. :rolleyes:
I served ten. It's not the liberals fault.
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I served ten. It's not the liberals fault.
Indirectly, yes it was. "If it feels good do it"..."Think of yourself first"....I could go on and on of other 60's slogans that basically made almost every American think that he/she was the center of the universe, but it started with the liberal cultural hippies.
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Started the re-up process on Sept. 12. The USMC offered me a commission. They were attempting to obtain waivers for me for both prior service and age. Apparently the age waiver was rejected. I would gladly serve again.
USMC from 1989-1993. 0311.
Semper Fi.
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Read the article and saw this:
"For former Marines like Col. Bill McHenry, who heads the Marine Corps Junior ROTC program at Fort Mill High School..."
There's no such thing as a former Marine.
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I think the main problem is indicated by trying to measure patriotism via hits to a web site.
AKDejaVu
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Hey Mav. You where right, and I was rah...rah...Wrong :), about that presentation box at the wall. That incident prompted me to finally, brake down and buy a new monitor. I went back to look at that pic to test it. Sure enough. There it was plain as day.
The problem now is, this new monitor is playing hell with my gunnery, in the game. My old eyes liked those fat, blurry, dots, I was shooting at.:)
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Originally posted by gofaster
Read the article and saw this:
"For former Marines like Col. Bill McHenry, who heads the Marine Corps Junior ROTC program at Fort Mill High School..."
There's no such thing as a former Marine.
Actually we say, "There's no such thing as an Ex-Marine"
However, you are correct because "Once a Marine, Always a Marine"
Semper Fi.
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The size of the U.S. military is expected to be about 1.4 million in September, the same as before Sept. 11.
In contrast, the military grew from around 1.5 million after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 to more than 10 million by September 1945, according to Pentagon figures.
Am I missing something here? The armed services population are at the prescribed level by congress now. We *can't* legally grow any larger than we are without NCA and congressional say-so. We activated many reservists and gaurd units and then.. after we realized how much it was costing to keep them activated, released them from duty.
BTW, the ARMY and the AF are already at there recruiting levels for the next fiscal year.
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I believe you are right, Ammo.
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Dang Rip.
I'm lookin through all my old hippie pinko handbooks and I just can't find "think of yourself first" anywhere.
go figure.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Dang Rip.
I'm lookin through all my old hippie pinko handbooks and I just can't find "think of yourself first" anywhere.
go figure.
Look on the cover.
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Originally posted by -ammo-
BTW, the ARMY and the AF are already at there recruiting levels for the next fiscal year.
not only that, but this isn't a regular war that a deluge of soldiers is going to help.
which might also explain why the FBI application numbers are rising instead.
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Hey gut, maybe this will help.
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ane arranged to be interviewed by Barbara Walters on June 17, 1988 on 20/20. The fact that Barbara Walters was married to Merv Adelson, CEO of Lorimar Telepictures, the company that marketed Jane's workout tapes had nothing to do with the selection of Walters said Fonda's publicist Steve Rivers.
16 years after her Hanoi tour, Jane Fonda appeared on 20/20 and was interviewed by Barbara Walters.
"I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did," Fonda said. "I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm . . . very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families."
Behind the scenes, Jane was filming "Stanley and Iris" on location in a number of New England towns. The production efforts on the movie were being severely disrupted by protesting Vietnam veterans and thus causing serious problems in the making of the film.
By the timing of the apology and by the primary reference to the New England veterans, was this a truly heart-felt apology or just another acting scene from the film to help the production efforts?
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
Look on the cover.
Some may come and some may go
We shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
You got the wrong book DJ.
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Ripsnort, how many years were you in the military?
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Direct result of your liberalism, Sandman. Enjoy the bed you liberals have made for us the last 30-40 years.
How many wealthy conservative sons and daughters are joining the military these days? I grew up in a wealthy, middle class suburban conservative town and I could probably count on one hand the number of my peers who chose military service, and most of those went the ROTC route -- not that there's anything wrong with that :)
I suppose people could be failing to join because their liberal ideology discourages such things. Or perhaps they're just part of the greed and ME generation, which is not quite based on liberal ideology. It funny, the more money someone has the more you're considered a loser if you choose military service out of personal conviction.
I imagine that you'll find as many less affluent inner city sons and daughters of liberals in the service as you'll find less affluent sons and daughters of rural conservatives.
Charon
As a side note. A jarhead I went to high school with (John Johnson)was busted in the early 1990s trying to sell some very likely mundane and useless satellite tracking beacon to the Soviets. What a maroon.