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  • More idiot hippie crap

    StrikeFO sent us a link to an article in his school’s paper, University of Tampa’s “The Minaret” (Seriously?). The article written by Camilla Chabet is entitled “Military Service Preys On Fragile Minds Of The Youth“. Yes, it’s says what you think it says;

    Although military drafts were banned back in 1973, it is not hard to see instances where military service is heavily persuading and aiming for young people. The army openly stated that it was looking to attract and recruit more young people.

    The draft wasn’t “banned”, cupcake. In fact it may surprise you that the Selective Service System still exists, and all of those 18-year-old men around you at college are supposed to be registered for the draft. And of course the Army wants to recruit young people…cuz old people like me don’t make good soldiers. Dipshit.

    I was perturbed that the minimum education requirement for a person to be recruited into the U.S Army was a high school diploma, while the minimum age requirement was set at 18. Even this requirement has been over looked at times by allowing 17-year-olds to be deployed.At the age of 18, and even with a high school diploma, a person is too young to be recruited into military service.

    Yeah, most of the people in the United States only achieve a twelfth grade education. If teachers would get off their fat asses and actually teach, that’s all of the education we generally need. I went through most of my adult with just a high school education and when I did graduate from college, all I needed was the diploma because I learned more in high school.

    They are young and still fresh. They are yet to be exposed to the real world, or even college, which is a diluted form of the real world. It is during the 18-25 age bracket that a person develops and tests their beliefs, it is at this time that they explore who they are and what they are about.

    College has absolutely nothing to do with the real world. In college, you learn HOW to learn for yourself, your real education happens AFTER you leave college. In fact, college is so unlike the real world, folks in the real world giggles behind the recent grad’s back. The only thing you get from college is the sense that you know something.

    I’d hire a twenty-two year veteran with a high school education before I’d hire a twenty-two year old college graduate.

    t is in college that these beliefs are formed, fully developed and make up a person’s character and personality. People get to see a greater extent of what they hear about, they get to experiment with the process of making a decision by themselves and dealing with the implication of the decisions they make.

    You’ve obviously never seen a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead a fire team against an enemy. Or a twenty-year-old buck sergeant lead physical training. What have you done in your pathetic little college student life? Planned a kegger?

    This is clear when observing the choices made by a freshman at college, compared to those of a junior or senior. As a person is exposed to more, they learn the difference between good and bad and right wrong; it is these that form the basis of what a person chooses to believe in and the path of life they choose to take later in life.

    Yeah, learning the difference between good and bad is different than doing the right thing. Hell, these days, most college students can’t even pick a major in their first two years. Because they don’t have to. Army recruits make their career choices before they even enter the service. They know what they want.

    The main problem with trying to recruit people who are young and mostly fresh out of high school is that they are not fully aware of what they are going to do. Some people’s main motivation for wanting to join the army is the allure of adventure and being exposed to guns and actually being able to use them. A young man is willing to lose his life for a cause that he may not even fully understand.

    Why? Because you were such an immature airhead that you didn’t understand at that age?

    Young people are quicker and more aggressive at defending their decision to join the army as opposed to veterans who will tell you the thick of what it really is, without all the puffed up promises of glory.

    You don’t know any veterans either do you?

    The only redeeming portion of the article is the comments.

  • It was the paper’s fault

    After a months long investigation of the incompetent boobery at Arlington National Cemetery, the Northern Virginia Technology Council arrived at the conclusion that paper isn’t an adequate record keeper according to the Washington Post;

    “They relied on three-by-five cards, which anyone in today’s age knows is a totally inadequate way to keep track of records of the remains,” he said.

    The cemetery also used just one fax machine, which Warner said “created an enormous bottleneck for the thousands of families trying to call in and schedule an interment for their loved ones. Backing up this fax machine was a manual system with paper and pencil.”

    Warner also said urns at the cemetery, rather than being stored properly while awaiting inurnment, would “sit for extended periods of time on a desk with simply a paper record attached to it.”

    Apparently, the paper also buried eight urns in a single burial site and left headstones laying around. Luckily, none of the people were found to be negligent, so they continue to get their forced-retirement pension checks…cuz it’s all the paper’s fault. Bad paper. No ice cream for you.

  • Another Poser Just Looking For Love

    From The Daily Mail:

    A ‘heartless’ Facebook fraudster has been using pictures of a dead Afghan war hero to seduce a string of women he met on-line.

    Under the name of ‘Dylan Sorvino’ the conman used memorial photos of handsome Sgt Roberto Sanchez, a 24-year-old Army Ranger who died in combat in 2009.

    The fraudster, whose real identify has not been determined, pretended he had grown up in New York then studied law and fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Typically he would wow them with tales of battlefield glory and promise to turn up after he got back from his next tour, only he never showed.

    One email he sent to Carolyn Hinz, 37, a divorcee from Minnesota read: ‘Tomorrow night is my crew’s last Iraqi patrol and we start packing up.

    ‘I’ve been warned by command not to discuss my departure due to national security so we have to keep this talk to a minimum.’

    So you got this clown pretending to be a dead Ranger who is clearly committing fraud by pretending to be someone he is not. You would expect federal law enforcement (particularly the FBI due to the fact that this occurred across several states) to be all over it…..not.

    An FBI spokesman said it would not get involved if there was no financial loss involved, as was the case here.

    So the question is if the FBI didn’t do an investigation how can they know for sure no financial loss was involved? What we at TAH have found with these guys is that there is almost always some type of financial angle for these fakers. It might seem silly to some to go after people who are telling fake war stories on Facebook, but trust me there is always something more. Take Jamie January for instance. At first he seemed just like some clown who stole boot camp stories and pictures from Major Jason Grose’s blog. However, as soon I posted that story about a half dozen people either contacted Jonn or posted in the comments section that they had been defrauded by Jamie January. As a result, Jamie January is sitting in a Michigan jail on fraud charges at this moment.

    Hopefully this guy gets whats coming to home, just don’t expect the FBI to help.

  • Ingrates

    Ya know if I was allowed to come to this country from that shit hole Somalia, I’d love me some Americans. And work at Tyson Chicken? Knowing I’d never have to eat one of those refugee MREs again? Dude!

    But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Sometime just before Christmas, someone lit the ladies’ latrine on fire at the plant in Shelbyville, Arkansas and then painted “All Americans Must Die” on one of the walls. The plant is concerned enough to ask for an off-duty cop to patrol the facility;

    However, Shelbyville police chief Austin Swing told the T-G this morning that all was peaceful inside the plant, according to the plainclothes officers patrolling inside the facility.

    Swing said that no official report has been made about the alleged incidents, the department is providing an armed off-duty officer after Tyson requested it.

    When contacted for clarification about the alleged incidents, Tyson Foods public relations representative Gary Mickleson only said the company “would rather not comment on the TV report.”

    Actually, I’m more concerned about the product coming out of Tyson at the moment. I mean, it was “All Americans” not “All Americans at the Tyson plant”.

    Thanks to ROS for this link.

  • South Korea vows retaliation

    South Korean President Lee Myung-bak announced today that South Korea’s military “must respond relentlessly when they come under attack” from the North. He went on to say that South Korea isn’t afraid of engaging in a war with the hermit kingdom. This following a statement from the North indicating that their roly-poly pompadoured leader is a bit irrate over the South’s continued war exercise.

    Kim’s military chief threatened last week to launch a “sacred” nuclear war against the South.

    The North’s main newspaper issued a warning Monday that South Korea’s recent exercises are “reckless military provocation” that could lead to the South to face a self-destruction. “There is limit in our patience,” said the Redoing Sinmun commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

    Well, in my opinion, Myung-bak had better worry about a war with the North. Not because of any particular strategic reason, but because of the world’s Leftists.

    Look at Israel. They were condemned for erecting walls that have since ended homicide bombings. When they retaliate against missiles launched from Lebanon or Gaza, the weight of world opinion crushes an effective response. Hell, right now there’s another flotilla headed for Gaza. Does anyone remember any condemnation when Israeli commandos were attacked on the last effort?

    Yeah, if an ally of ours tried to save the lives of several million dregs living under the Stalinist regime of North Korea, the Left would twist themselves up in knots even with credible mitigation.

    We’ve got VFP still protesting the Korean War. Some of them were waving “US Out of Haiti” signs the last time I went to one of their protests. Of course, I’d kick in a coupla bucks to send a plane load of them to North Korea to be human shields.

  • NYT: cut our military during this war

    In the New York Times this weekend was an opinion piece written by a journalist Nicholas Kristof who advocates cutting military spending while we’re engaged in a war beyond our borders. Now I read Mr. Kristof’s biography and I don’t see a thing that qualifies him to make such a statement…well, other than the fact that he’s a journalist, spent his whole adult life as a journalist as so he thinks he knows every thing there is to know about…well…everything. Now he wants to be heard on our global strategy;

    • The United States spends nearly as much on military power as every other country in the world combined, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. It says that we spend more than six times as much as the country with the next highest budget, China.

    And the problem is? I wonder if Mr. Kristof has noticed that the rest of the world is more than hesitant to use their military. While Serbs murdered Bosnians, the world stood around with their hands in their pockets. While hundreds of thousands of Africans died, the world stood by and watched. While terrorists attack in almost every European country, they’re resistant to send their own military to where the terrorists are being trained.

    • The United States maintains troops at more than 560 bases and other sites abroad, many of them a legacy of a world war that ended 65 years ago. Do we fear that if we pull our bases from Germany, Russia might invade?

    You do realize that we’ve drawn down our forces substantially in Europe right? It should also be noted that much of the underlying infrastructure in our Europe-based force supports operations in the Middle East. And, yes Russia is becoming a bigger threat to Europe every day.

    • The intelligence community is so vast that more people have “top secret” clearance than live in Washington, D.C.

    Having a top secret clearance doesn’t make someone a member of the intelligence community. Sometimes just being in the same grid square as mundane, routine classified information requires a clearance. You’d think someone as worldly as Mr. Kristoff would know that. But he probably does and he wants to scare the folks who don’t.

    • The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

    Hmmm. I wonder why a high tech war which depends on gee-whiz gadgets would cost more than every war we ever fought with cap and ball weapons while we were mounted atop horses?

    “Republicans think banging the war drums wins them votes, and Democrats think if they don’t chime in, they’ll lose votes,” said Andrew Bacevich, an ex-military officer who now is a historian at Boston University.

    Hardly, dimbulbs two. it’s not Republicans who beating war drums. It’s people like Ahmadinejad and Il who beat war drums. Do we want to be unprepared when they finally make their move?

    Let me be clear: I’m a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service — and that’s preposterous.

    Yeah, because we’ve seen how well the “foreign service” has performed over the last hundred years or so. Even before we had a large standing army. Kristoff is probably home right now Windexing his Rhodes scholar scroll, so proud of how he stood up for an intellectual foreign policy in favor of a brutish military solution to all of our problems. But, he neglected to take into account that we’re not talking about existing in a civilized world like when diplomacy actually worked in the mid-19th century in Europe briefly. Diplomacy actually caused the problems with Iran and North Korea. Diplomacy caused the Iraq War.

  • They should have dragged him by his feet

    I just got back from spending a day with the great medical folks at Walter Reed and some parents of wounded warriors and found these pictures in my inbox (from one of my ninjas). The first thing that popped in my head is that they should have picked Matthis up by his feet and dragged him on his face to see if he’d dig that mug into the snow.

    Someone told me that Matthis was wearing a VFP pin or patch, so he’s a Geezer For Sitting On Our Hands.

  • The folly of crossing a Marine.

    Some of you may have hear this story. But just in case here is the short version. Guy goes into a Best Buy and tries to steal a laptop computer. When confronted by the store employees he ran for the door waving a knife in hand and ran into a few Marines doing the Toys for Tots.

    Outside the door were four Marines and seven volunteers collecting donations for Toys for Tots.

    “(Duggan) clotheslined him, and after that he kind up got up and started swinging a knife around,” Smith said.

    Gunnery Sgt. Robert Richie said Attaway “came over the top and got (Duggan) in the back.”

    Attaway ran again but didn’t get far before Richie, several other Marines and members of the store’s loss-prevention team tackled him in the parking lot and held him until deputies arrived.

    I hate to be that guy, I mean causing a Marine to bled in front of 4 other Marines can only be bad news.

    Fellow Marines identified the injured man as Cpl. Phillip Duggan, 24, who spent part of Black Friday recuperating at Eisenhower Army Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening.

    The attacker has been arrested and facing charges of armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a knife in the commission of a crime.

    The story has been checked by Snopes.