Andra_Jenny
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Military Experience - my one & only poll
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KillerMuffin
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I know you were proud to be a part of the Department of the Navy AJ. Good for you!
willywanker
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My age put me right after Vietnam when I was old enough to enlist. Actually went and took the written part of the test but they had "dumbed down" the military so much at that point that without a college degree to get into OCS, it just didn't make sense.
My father and uncle were both WWII vets and I believe in and support a strong Military.
My father and uncle were both WWII vets and I believe in and support a strong Military.
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Urah!
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Who?
Are the foreign devils?
French Foreign Legion? Man! I would have given my left nut to be with them! Wonder if they'd still take me?
Are the foreign devils?
French Foreign Legion? Man! I would have given my left nut to be with them! Wonder if they'd still take me?
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p_p_man
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Depends on whether...
...you've still got your left nut.
Voted civilian. But spent a lot of time in war zones in foreign countries. Can I be a token military?
I always wanted to be a real one...
Honest...
So can I...ugh?
Please?...
Sparky Kronkite said:
...you've still got your left nut.
Voted civilian. But spent a lot of time in war zones in foreign countries. Can I be a token military?
I always wanted to be a real one...
Honest...
So can I...ugh?
Please?...
Mr.curious
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Spent 22 years in Field Artillery. 155MM SP. From gun bunny to Section Chief, to Supply Specialist. Hell what a life. Most 15 years of it was national Guard.
It's nice to be a civilian again.
It's nice to be a civilian again.
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army
Only (draft) Lottery i ever won.
214th C.A.B. Pathfinders Vinh Long
164th C.A.G. Can Tho
18 months in country Viet Nam
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biggest oxymoron-----fighting for peace
Only (draft) Lottery i ever won.
214th C.A.B. Pathfinders Vinh Long
164th C.A.G. Can Tho
18 months in country Viet Nam
Radio-operator
biggest oxymoron-----fighting for peace
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Andra_Jenny
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My respect "^^"
Sparky: Everyone else is the enemy, eh? I mean, take the army, they forgets that we is grunts and if they keep changin' the uniform, like them berets..., now if I see a beret pop up, well, my trigger finger pulls if it ain't green.. heh heh.
So any military other than our is foreign devils and any civilians [editor's note: bad joke about to appear, hide all children] our and thiers is collateral damage!
I still have two spots open if I left anyone out, like the black helicopter gang...
URRAH!
Although I almost did include the French Foreign Legion, then I thought..., no way man!
Sparky: Everyone else is the enemy, eh? I mean, take the army, they forgets that we is grunts and if they keep changin' the uniform, like them berets..., now if I see a beret pop up, well, my trigger finger pulls if it ain't green.. heh heh.
So any military other than our is foreign devils and any civilians [editor's note: bad joke about to appear, hide all children] our and thiers is collateral damage!
I still have two spots open if I left anyone out, like the black helicopter gang...
URRAH!
Although I almost did include the French Foreign Legion, then I thought..., no way man!
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Civilian Military is an oxymoron, I guess, but it was included as the None option so all my friends, even the Quakers, could participate and understand thier role in life according to the military mindset.
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The better part of the Navy, unless you are an UDT, who I do not want to piss off. I was in a technical field!
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Wait a second!
Only two votes, but I know for a fact we have at least a squad.
DID YOU JARHEADS GET CONFUSED BY THE BALLOT?
PS I'll take point if I have to. Maybe since I'm really big, I should get the big gun!
Only two votes, but I know for a fact we have at least a squad.
DID YOU JARHEADS GET CONFUSED BY THE BALLOT?
PS I'll take point if I have to. Maybe since I'm really big, I should get the big gun!
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Other = Girl Scout = Civilian = Jody Girl!
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Drafted 26 January 1970. 6 years active duty (26 January 1970, 13 February 1976) U.S Army. ETS rank; E-6 SSG, 18 months time in grade. MOS; 45B20 (small arms repair) 45C30 (Tank turret repair) 45L20 (Artillery repair) 41C30 (Fire control specialist) 45Z40 (Armament Maintenance Inspector).
1 year Vietnam (15 August 1970, 29 July 1971) HMS Company 2nd. Maint. Bn. Phu Bia supporting the 1/83rd Field Artillery as well as units of the 5th Mechinized Infantry and the 101st Airborne.
6 years Washington Army National Guard (13 February 1976 to 13 February 1983).
Comshaw
1 year Vietnam (15 August 1970, 29 July 1971) HMS Company 2nd. Maint. Bn. Phu Bia supporting the 1/83rd Field Artillery as well as units of the 5th Mechinized Infantry and the 101st Airborne.
6 years Washington Army National Guard (13 February 1976 to 13 February 1983).
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My respects Comshaw!
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Navy Airdale.
Radar Tec/operater. Graduated to counter-measures. Then on to ASM tec.
Radar Tec/operater. Graduated to counter-measures. Then on to ASM tec.
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Four year active duty Air Force.
explosives
explosives
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Boom Boom, what is it, out go da lights!
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Intercontinental Balistic Missiles
boom is an understatement
boom is an understatement
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drafted
twelve days before you comshaw. and in country at the same time, just in the delta.
twelve days before you comshaw. and in country at the same time, just in the delta.
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What is your gut feeling on this issue?
Awesome Power of the Media
John LeBoutillier
Thursday July 12, 2001
The Chandra Levy Case is the best example of the unique power of the media to set the agenda in this country.
In May and early June, the DC cops and the FBI did little to investigate this case. Their excuse? "It is a missing persons case and we have literally hundreds of them per year. No crime has been committed.”
The brave Levy parents – aided by a media savvy lawyer, Billy Martin – literally forced this story onto cable TV and onto the nation’s front pages.
True, this case is unlike most others: allegations against a sitting United States Congressman and charges of numerous other sex partners has spiced up the story. That combination – sex and power – make for compelling news.
Still, the underlying lesson here is that once the media gets ahold of a bone like this and refuses to let go, it can drive a story until it is completed.
That happened in Watergate, didn’t it?
The news stories goosed the investigators, probers and prosecutors into doing the what up to then had been unthinkable: remove a sitting President.
The same here. Laconic cops and too-busy Feds have now been energized by the round-the-clock cable news coverage.
My heart goes out to all the thousands of other missing people and their families. Oh, if only their cases received the same treatment!
While my heart is saddened, my spirit is renewed over another similar instance: the cases of US POW’s captured during the Vietnam War in Vietnam and Laos and knowingly abandoned – alive – by our government in our rush to "get out of Vietnam.”
For years and years I have dreamed of the national news media driving that story until our men – hundreds of whom are still alive in captivity in SE Asia at this very minute – are brought home. (Some of our POW’s were also taken to the Soviet Union during the war. Some of them are still alive and held in ‘psychiatric’ wards deep inside Russia today. Our government has done absolutely nothing to recover these men – and done much to prevent their recovery.)
All my fellow POW activists and the families of the men have known for years that our federal government has been worse than ‘laconic’ or ‘inept.’ They have been downright criminal in their cover-up of this tragedy. And yet we have been unable to get the national news media to focus day-after-day-after day on this issue – until, like the Iranian Hostages in 1979-1980 – our government was forced to bring our people home.
Later this summer – in this space – you will read of a new effort to prove that our POW’s are still alive. It will be like no previous effort to solve this terrible problem.
It will involve aspects that brought about the birth of our nation: individual people standing up to repressive governments and revealing the truth about government abuse of the truth.
In the meantime, please note the power of the media to drive a story and force a reluctant government to address an issue.
For all our criticism of the Big Media, there are cases where it can be useful.
Let us hope it forces the solution to the Chandra Case – and continues to use its awesome power to find other missing Americans.
LeBoutillier has a daily column at Newsmax.com and he brings this issue up often.
Awesome Power of the Media
John LeBoutillier
Thursday July 12, 2001
The Chandra Levy Case is the best example of the unique power of the media to set the agenda in this country.
In May and early June, the DC cops and the FBI did little to investigate this case. Their excuse? "It is a missing persons case and we have literally hundreds of them per year. No crime has been committed.”
The brave Levy parents – aided by a media savvy lawyer, Billy Martin – literally forced this story onto cable TV and onto the nation’s front pages.
True, this case is unlike most others: allegations against a sitting United States Congressman and charges of numerous other sex partners has spiced up the story. That combination – sex and power – make for compelling news.
Still, the underlying lesson here is that once the media gets ahold of a bone like this and refuses to let go, it can drive a story until it is completed.
That happened in Watergate, didn’t it?
The news stories goosed the investigators, probers and prosecutors into doing the what up to then had been unthinkable: remove a sitting President.
The same here. Laconic cops and too-busy Feds have now been energized by the round-the-clock cable news coverage.
My heart goes out to all the thousands of other missing people and their families. Oh, if only their cases received the same treatment!
While my heart is saddened, my spirit is renewed over another similar instance: the cases of US POW’s captured during the Vietnam War in Vietnam and Laos and knowingly abandoned – alive – by our government in our rush to "get out of Vietnam.”
For years and years I have dreamed of the national news media driving that story until our men – hundreds of whom are still alive in captivity in SE Asia at this very minute – are brought home. (Some of our POW’s were also taken to the Soviet Union during the war. Some of them are still alive and held in ‘psychiatric’ wards deep inside Russia today. Our government has done absolutely nothing to recover these men – and done much to prevent their recovery.)
All my fellow POW activists and the families of the men have known for years that our federal government has been worse than ‘laconic’ or ‘inept.’ They have been downright criminal in their cover-up of this tragedy. And yet we have been unable to get the national news media to focus day-after-day-after day on this issue – until, like the Iranian Hostages in 1979-1980 – our government was forced to bring our people home.
Later this summer – in this space – you will read of a new effort to prove that our POW’s are still alive. It will be like no previous effort to solve this terrible problem.
It will involve aspects that brought about the birth of our nation: individual people standing up to repressive governments and revealing the truth about government abuse of the truth.
In the meantime, please note the power of the media to drive a story and force a reluctant government to address an issue.
For all our criticism of the Big Media, there are cases where it can be useful.
Let us hope it forces the solution to the Chandra Case – and continues to use its awesome power to find other missing Americans.
LeBoutillier has a daily column at Newsmax.com and he brings this issue up often.
