Author Topic: Kevin Tillman (Read 2490 times)

cav58d · « **Reply #45 on:** October 21, 2006, 05:43:45 PM »

It's not because I think liberals are wrong...I just dont like them as people...They all tend to be the same...boring, whiney and wusses....

When I think about it, ALL of my close friends are conservatives....

Urchin · « **Reply #46 on:** October 21, 2006, 05:50:59 PM »

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I live in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and have a very wealthy and affluent family...I will be commissioning in May 07' US Army. Sorry aqua, but dont generalize because you are wrong...

So... on your first job in charge of a platoon, are you going to argue with your platoon sergeant that Haahvaad is clearly better than Yale?

I'm bettin he's gonna be a Yale man, although I guess Columbia or Princeton probably have quite a presence in the enlisted ranks as well.

Eagler · « **Reply #47 on:** October 21, 2006, 06:20:08 PM »

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Are your plans to support another war to protect isreal from HER enemies, based on lies and deceception?

I don't know, why don't you tell me .. what war and what lies exactly before you use ur omnipresent 20/20 hindsight and tell us all the error of our ways after the fact ...

I know my reality, sorry I don't live in your dream world where Bush is the devil and America the great satan ... we are too close to the forest to see the trees, history will prove you wrong - that I do not doubt

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #48 on:** October 21, 2006, 06:50:37 PM »

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Originally posted by cav58d
I live in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and have a very wealthy and affluent family...I will be commissioning in May 07' US Army. Sorry aqua, but dont generalize because you are wrong...

I certainly hope you use your GI Bill when you get out. Obviously you don't know much about military history. Below I have attached a short clip from an article talking about the Army specifically targeting poor people for recruitment.

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-more than 44 percent of military recruits come from rural areas, most from the South and West. “Many . . . are financially strapped, with nearly half coming from lower-middle-class to poor households, according to new Pentagon data based on Zip codes and census estimates of mean household income.”

Yeager · « **Reply #49 on:** October 21, 2006, 07:06:16 PM »

Obviously you don't know much about military history.
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what are your academic credentials shrimp? or are you just "well read" like everybody else?

Urchin · « **Reply #50 on:** October 21, 2006, 08:32:05 PM »

Yeager, did you serve?

I lose track of who has and who hasn't... obviously the only people who can truly know what sort of people serve (as in where they are from, what 'class' of people join up, what race, etc) are those who have served, as the military obviously wouldn't collect that data and make it available to the general public.

Hopefully you did serve, so you can settle the debate. In YOUR unit (immediate unit), how many people were Ivy-league educated? How many were college educated? How many enlisted personnel had college degrees when they enlisted? Obviously the proportion of Ivy league educated enlisted personnel was high, but were there more PFC's from Harvard, or Yale? I think that is what the debate is about.

Yeager · « **Reply #51 on:** October 21, 2006, 10:03:57 PM »

"Somehow, the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country. Somehow, this is tolerated. Somehow, nobody is accountable for this."
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Sorry he lost his brother but he is now in the sheehan camp as far as Im concerned. He has impeached himself from deliberate thought. what a mess.

Urchin 12 years as a USAF dependant and the past 2 years employed in a support role as a contractor to the military. I work with uniformed military persons every day and I see none of what the previous poster alluded to.

ByeBye · « **Reply #52 on:** October 21, 2006, 10:18:21 PM »

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It's called "denile", usually sufferred by people who don't have the coping skills to acknowledge reality; The picture that you carry inside your head is very different from reality. For you to acknowledge the truth would make your 'play' world crumble at your feet.

Kind of like a guy who would waste a day trying to get a good seat on the curb across the street from an eatery so he could snap some pics of the important people.

Bush has caused more damage than all the presidents combined? LOL. You seem very sad. In my opinion, you have no clue how the real world operates.

Urchin · « **Reply #53 on:** October 21, 2006, 10:52:30 PM »

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Originally posted by Yeager

Urchin 12 years as a USAF dependant and the past 2 years employed in a support role as a contractor to the military. I work with uniformed military persons every day and I see none of what the previous poster alluded to.

Oh, so you are just "well read" then?

Yeager · « **Reply #54 on:** October 21, 2006, 11:13:53 PM »

no urchin working in direct support of the armed forces is a step or two above being well read, thanks for asking

and yes, very well read. very well read indeed.

Urchin · « **Reply #55 on:** October 21, 2006, 11:35:40 PM »

Oh, I didn't mean any disrespect... I was under the impression that it was either you served or you had no knowledge at all. Sometimes finding that middle ground is hard to do on the internet.

bsdaddict · « **Reply #56 on:** October 22, 2006, 01:43:18 AM »

I served. went to boot camp in '91. there was one college graduate in the 80ish men in my company there. I was next in line, being a two year dropout.

lukster · « **Reply #57 on:** October 22, 2006, 09:17:50 AM »

Me at Osan AB Korea 93-94 (Top left)

Thrawn · « **Reply #58 on:** October 22, 2006, 09:20:39 AM »

"Yeager, did you serve?"

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Originally posted by Yeager
12 years as a USAF dependant and the past 2 years employed in a support role as a contractor to the military. I work with uniformed military persons every day and I see none of what the previous poster alluded to.

The answer was "no" Yeagar...but you would make a fantastic politician.

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #59 on:** October 22, 2006, 09:46:44 AM »

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Originally posted by Urchin
Yeager, did you serve?

I lose track of who has and who hasn't... obviously the only people who can truly know what sort of people serve (as in where they are from, what 'class' of people join up, what race, etc) are those who have served, as the military obviously wouldn't collect that data and make it available to the general public.

Hopefully you did serve, so you can settle the debate. In YOUR unit (immediate unit), how many people were Ivy-league educated? How many were college educated? How many enlisted personnel had college degrees when they enlisted? Obviously the proportion of Ivy league educated enlisted personnel was high, but were there more PFC's from Harvard, or Yale? I think that is what the debate is about.

Urchin summed it up beautifully, even added some sarcastic bite, like a virtual glove in the face.