Both my FiL and I did BT at Fort Lost In The Woods. He became a truck driver/mechanic and I was supposed to be an intelligence specialist with Hungarian language training. I flunked out with previously unidentified shoulder problems, but my FiL, a German Jew who'd been sent by his family to the US after Kristallnacht when he was 16, returned to Europe via Utah Beach He was one of the finest men I've ever known. It's funny, but according to my wife and other members of his family that he didn't start talking about his service until I married into the family and we had that weak-but-still-there Leonard Wood bond that he'd talk about what he did in the war.
I'm just as sick as the next person of all this blind worship of "teh trooooops!!!" BUT--- most of these folks who signed up have a definite sense of honor, and this handout from Cadet BoneSpurs is a slap in the face to those upright men and women.
Decency is everywhere. Like the hydra, it sprouts new heads no matter how those seeking to destroy it persevere. Damn, these people have it tough.
There are a number of things we'd have hoped were established once and for all. It turns out to be an unending task.
Sillies! Trump needs those guys to join with Erik Prince and form the new Trump militia. "We shoot, we stab, we laugh."
Do you believe everything you read?
The stress of serving in a forward position is hard enough without this.
I thought My Lai came to light because multiple whistleblowers stepped forward.
Yeah, those farmers who are retiring and renting out their land are not coming back, and their kids won’t be able to take over the farm.
I think he was bored and wanted to grab headlines.
Both my FiL and I did BT at Fort Lost In The Woods. He became a truck driver/mechanic and I was supposed to be an intelligence specialist with Hungarian language training. I flunked out with previously unidentified shoulder problems, but my FiL, a German Jew who'd been sent by his family to the US after Kristallnacht when he was 16, returned to Europe via Utah Beach He was one of the finest men I've ever known. It's funny, but according to my wife and other members of his family that he didn't start talking about his service until I married into the family and we had that weak-but-still-there Leonard Wood bond that he'd talk about what he did in the war.
I'm just as sick as the next person of all this blind worship of "teh trooooops!!!" BUT--- most of these folks who signed up have a definite sense of honor, and this handout from Cadet BoneSpurs is a slap in the face to those upright men and women.
Tell us how you really feel!
What, so a neo-Nazi can shoot her?
(New Zealander here :( )
Kelly Freas rools!
Yep, we will find out down the road that Prince paid him, in Rubles.
And Erik Prince, of his guys is up for pardon, the others may just be so it is not as obvious..
I'm sorry. I'm just a pedantic dick.