Translation: Only the hopeless become patriots.
Gawd almighty, I hate the MSM.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/06/2010 5:02:28 PM PDT by Nachum
Young lovers Chris White and Beatrice Mahoney sat down and did the math. He's 20, she's 19. They've been together three years. Neither has a career, and the national unemployment rate is 9.5 percent. Here's what they came up with – the Marine Corps.(Snip)But Gilroy said Army researchers discovered something surprising when they polled new recruits about their reasons for enlisting – "service to country" was the No. 1 response.
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It is easily forgotten, especially economically, that this is not a re-rerun of World War II. During World War II, we were lending to the Allied nations, as well as the Axis extensively post-war. We are borrowing to run the war in Afghanistan. If anyone wishes to further comment and disagree here, do so. I think the economics of our military is every bit important to discuss on these boards.
I agree. Our manufacturing production was in full swing with lend lease to the Russkies, during the war, and post WW2 cold war. Since our major companies and manufacturing have been forced out we have lost our economic abilities to produce viable product. Also our country never was fully mobilized to its max potential following 9/11.
We should be pumping out drones, bombers, satellites and everything else war related to prepare for Iran, Nkorea, and a resurgent taliban in Pakistan. We either go to war 100% both economically and socially or we go home.
We either go to war 100% both economically and socially or we won’t have a home.
FIFY.
Send them to Afghanistan. If we want to win the war there, we need extra boots on the ground to patrol every little village and the countryside as well. If we’re not doing that, otherwise we should pack up and return home. To remain there in small numbers, we’ll just do a repeat of what the Soviets did back in the ‘80s.
We’re not the Soviets and this is not the 80’s. - TD, USAF Bagram Afghanistan
Yikes... that is the equivalent of saying you are a moron. My nephew enlisted in the USAF in May 2009... was deferred from entering basic training from August to November due to overload of new recruits. He recently completed tech school and volunteered for recruitment duty while on leave and said the local recruiters quota was 4 people per month!
Recruiting is good, so they are taking females, eventually they will be 53% of the military.
My 31 YO nephew tried to join. No one would talk to him except the Navy. And they turned him down because of a DUI and a D & D (charges dropped).
He has a 2 year degree (AA).
That said, they are better off without him. He is a lazy, lying FU. Probably wouldn’t have made it through basic anyway. And as regards the AA, I was ahead of him academically when I finished the 10th grade.
I was glad to see the services can be a little more choosy now.
>>> In sour U.S. job market, military recruitment thriving
In a thriving job market the recruiters also did well. At least since 9/11.
Translation: Only the hopeless become patriots.
Gawd almighty, I hate the MSM.
How long before The Messiah, and his mouthpieces allow the SEIU to sign up military personnel to join the Union, too?
I don’t agree with Rethink Afghanistan, but a great deal of information is presented there. Yes, it may be just to overthrow the Taliban and colonize Afghanistan, but there’s a great deal of work involved in maintaining Afghanistan. It may not be the 1980s, but a great deal of Afghanistan is not occupied by our military, a great deal that while not a major city, still has the resources that are neccessary to both the people and our military in the region. Importing resources into a landlocked region by air is not cheap. A prolonged conflict could exhaust us still, even with modern technology. There’s a lot more to think about than whether or not it’s the 1980s. We need to understand what it takes to support hundreds of thousands of troops, who knows how many vehicles, and who knows how many airplanes and drones in operation in Afghanistan. This is an area not easily accessible, because it is landlocked, there’s many variables to think about here.
“We need to understand what it takes to support hundreds of thousands of troops, who knows how many vehicles, and who knows how many airplanes and drones in operation in Afghanistan. This is an area not easily accessible, because it is landlocked…” Maybe civilians need to do that, but the US military and our coalition partners do. This isn’t new to anyone here. This is what we do.
I’m in Afghanistan right now - been here a while and I don’t know anyone who’s interested in colonizing this dump. We’re not in the business of “overthrowing” anyone, but we’re very much in the business of killing those who continue to engage coalition forces while we take care of business. That business is capturing or killing terrorists while assisting the people of Afghanistan. We see it every day.
Frankly, we’re not even interested in maintaining Afghanistan, but we can’t do what we do without the people of Afghanistan understanding we’re not their enemy. That means as we blow shit up and kill these idiots, we have to help the people of Afghanistan. Makes sense to me.
It just annoys me to read some of the empty headed comments by people who obviously haven’t a clue. They sit back and play armchair General and speculate, spin wild tales, and second guess everything. War is a lot of things, but it sure as hell is not an exact science.
I don’t want people thinking the military is a place to find a job and get benefits. I don’t think those people are necessarily compatible with what we do or who we are. Those tend to be the ones on TV whining about deploying and claiming contentious objector status when asked to. After all they had no idea the purpose of the military is to blow shit up and kill people. This isn’t a lifestyle for wimps.
The big point is, I think we agree with you on the main point: the political side is not all for this war. I hope that we are for winning it and finishing it, half-hearted junk and red tape hurt more often than not. Another factor of WWII was we really thrust ourselves into it, something that I wish was remembered much, much, more.
Agreed. I think the military definition of victory and the that of the politicians are frequently out of sync. It can be quite discouraging, but the spirit, morale and effort of the people in the US military is never in doubt. I hope the American people will be wary of the media and the way they slant stories. Only in Hollywood does the story get wrapped in a neat little package. War has never been an easy course or action.
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