Posted on 09/02/2016 6:44:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jackson once marched a 15-20,000 man Army complete with baggage train 60 miles in 36 hours....
Deo Vindice
As a Millennial I am ashamed of my generation I long for my fellow Southern brethren to once again, fly the flag of their Ancestors, and just get back to being good ole Scotch-Irish Confederate Christian rednecks with a love for God, Guns, Dixie, Country, and fine Southern Women. Is that too much to ask?
That is incredible. I guess they did not call his army “foot cavalry” for nothing.
No and no. Most women in the military have no interest in combat arms. Most women are in the service by virtue of reduce height, weight and physical fitness standards. The Israeli situation is the result of a court ruling and they are still not integrated into combat units for the most part: http://www.wnd.com/2001/08/10269/ Finally, if they were really just as capable as men then the obvious place that should be integrated are NCAA sports teams at the service academies. There is no reason to segregate men & women in track & field events, they are perfectly equal...right?
I do like the idea of the draft though. It would be good to see the Burr, Romney & Sununu boys in uniform.
Your dad must have been just a little older than i am, i was 16 before i lived in a house with electricity and running water.
It was kinde of hard for my dad to farm in eastern Colo because the dirt was on the move.
Later Ike became president and every thing got better but i still did my share on picks and shovels.
My son was smaller than this young man. He was a tower climber until he died. His gear alone weighed 135 pounds - almost as much as he did.
Can you lug 135 pounds up 300 feet along with the equipment, then fix a complex electrical system, and climb down in less than 4 hours? Then do it again - and again - in 16 hour shifts for a 7 day work week with 6 weeks on and two off? With a torn ligament in your shoulder, T1 diabetes, and a badly healed broken back?
At 5’6” and 145 pounds, my kid was small, but he wasn’t weak.
If anyone’s curious, I’ll tell you guys about the 18-30 year old kids that my husband served with in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Oh, and that kid that you’re mocking?
Yeah, he flips houses and does most of the construction work himself. He’s already got two successful businesses under his belt at 17 and got married to that lovely young lady before he graduated high school. He’s not wasting his future on a worthless college degree. He works with his hands and probably knows more about construction than most of the ‘men’ here.
He’s more successful at 18 than most of the retired people here ever were.
If he were your grandson, you’d be damn proud.
He flips houses and does most of the construction work himself. By 17 he’s already got two successful businesses under his belt and at 18 married that young lady in the photo. (Who’s also got her own business.) He knows everything there is to know about construction, business, and real estate and makes money with labor. He’s 18 and independently wealthy.
Yeah. He’s a real loser. Doesn’t know the first thing about real work. /s
At my last ‘job’ in the Obamaconomy I was slaving on the phones for 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week. They had an autodialer because your eyes would get so strained you literally might not be able to read the tiny-print list. And while the people couldn’t shoot me they could treat me like garbage and I could never expect better or complain to anyone.
Maybe not quite the same but I can sure as hell sympathize...hunched in that tiny cubicle until your back and legs hurt so bad you have to stand up slow or cramps will literally knock you over like a piano dropping on your head. Frankly I’d rather have been working outside.
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