Dude, telling me how you would have been an Airborne Ranger if you’d followed through on your plans to join the military after college was an interesting, if moronic, thing to say to me when you saw my regimental crest pin pushed into the wall of my cube. But telling me that you’d have been in a real war, not like me, who was just a peacekeeper and a fobbit to boot, really doesn’t do much to get me excited about your alternate universe badass self. And as you waddled your pudgy self out of my direct field of vision, all I could do was thank the Lord that our country dodged a bullet when you decided that the military just wasn’t for you. So thank you for your aborted plans to be the best thing to happen to my Army since Audie Murphy, and I hope you enjoy your mental masturbation about how you would have been a life taker and a world shaker had the siren song of pizza, beer, and air conditioning not hit your ears.
Thought for the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on June 13, 2012
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Steve
/ June 13, 2012So it’s happening in your area also….what is that you ask? Alternative universises (universii?)
The female protoplasm at my place of work are acting all squirrly and such. Lots of ME, ME, ME!!!!!!leventy12!!!!!!!zomg she’s such a bieeeaatch!!!!
Oh well, If you aren’t in the place that you want to be…then WALK!
Steve
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Jay G.
/ June 13, 2012I hear there’s this thing called a blanket party…
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Old NFO
/ June 13, 2012Sigh… It’s happening up here too… Guy at the next table for lunch was bragging to the three women with him…
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daddybear71
/ June 13, 2012I run into one of those guys every so often, and I know it shouldn’t get under my skin, but it does. I took enough crap when I was in the Army for not being combat arms that I don’t willingly take it from someone who didn’t even take the oath of enlistment.
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Trooper Lefty
/ June 14, 2012DB – I was combat arms (19k) and still spent the Gulf War sitting in Germany. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I’ll take beer and German women over deployment any day. My sole ‘war story’ consists of pulling guard duty at the main gate the day the war started and eventually pulling over the pretty women for the car inspections.
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TinCan Assassin
/ June 14, 2012My first enlistment was peacetime AG Corps. I took some crap. I even believed it for awhile. Until I got thanked by a former Infantry guy from Viet Nam when I told him all I did in my tour in Korea was sort mail. He told me I was directly responsible for improving the morale of the units I serviced. I felt good about “just doing my duty” after that.
Now I’m a Transportation Corps Soldier, still a Fobbit, and the impact I had was a little more direct. And I just did my duty. And there is honor in that. Don’t need to be the hooah hooah super trooper with the triple canopy on my sleeve. I did my part, and that’s enough.
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daddybear71
/ June 14, 2012Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Evyl Robot Michael
/ June 14, 2012Reminds me of conversations between car guys when they get to bragging about future projects. “Your car may be pretty quick, but just wait until I get my XXX built! I’ll totally waste you!”
I have honestly put down that conversation with, “Let’s just all race what we are GOING to have,” on more than one occasion.
I’ve never served the country and there were reasons that I never enlisted. I do wonder how life might had been different had I made different choices. Even still, random people who try to shame you guys just look stupid doing that crap. In many ways, even worse than those that claim to have been in the service but obviously never took the oath.
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daddybear71
/ June 14, 2012ER – Just want to be clear. I don’t disrespect those who chose to not join the service. Everyone’s life is different and not everyone will make the same choices I have. My problem is either the ‘you weren’t a real soldier’ attitude or the ‘I would have been a heroes hero’ attitude. One is just ignorant and the other is empty chest beating.
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Dan
/ June 14, 2012I was always thankful that bill clinton never did ROTC. It saved countless lives and 1 handgrenade
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