Posted on 02/15/2009 8:39:30 AM PST by balls
“Military personnel are generally very real Patriotic citizens. There are a few ego trips, but not many.”
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Yep!
Thanx fer yer reply!
Dick G
GnySgt USMC (Ret.)
1952-’72
That's exactly what came to my mind too. On the face of it this sounds ok, but I have a bad feeling.
By the way, I like your website.
That's exactly what came to my mind too. On the face of it this sounds ok, but I have a bad feeling.
Experience is the thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
OO-rah
When he was to retire, he would get the same benefits as I if he stayed in for the 20.
His future civlian police force recruits.
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The average age of WW-II soldiers was 26, in Vietnam it was around 22. The better educated, were slightly more likely to be killed, but only because officers were more likely to be killed, especially pilots, and they were on average more educated.
The Marines who were killed in Vietnam did tend to be younger than their Army brothers, the average age was of a USMC infantryman(0351> was about 20 1/2 compared to 22 1/2 for an Army 11B.
Even in WW-II the troops tended to be better educated than was true of their age group as a whole.
I'm around soldiers every day, mostly officers but not entirely, and they are good people, regardless of any previous education. I will say that the officers, if not academy Grads, tend to be from "lessor" state schools (includes Mustangs too) and many of the enlisted are more than just high school grads.
Because the Philipines was once a US territory, they do get special consideration. This seems to be mostly the Navy, I didn't know the CG did it too. I never saw any Filipino cooks in the Air Force. There was one of the guys who I went through AFROTC field training with, who was from a Filipino family, but AFAIK, he was a citizen, in fact he had to be, because non citizens cannot be officers. He was our flight's fire warden, the only position that did not change occupants during the encampment. We had lots of flight commanders, first sergeants, and Squadron staff types, but only one fire warden per flight. Ours had a name that made him sound like an Italian Apache. :)
pointless response
"in particular to have languages useful in combat zones like Afghanistan and Iraq. "
This screams a large Muslim fifth column in our military. Who would have thought President Hussein would do something like this? /s
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