Posted on 12/08/2004 6:31:34 AM PST by Pfesser
Two young lieutenants of the 48th Brigade of the Georgia National Guard watched a couple of dozen enlisted men party with four Hooters girls in an armory in Lawrenceville on Pearl Harbor Day.
On Thursday, they and about 80 more members of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, will roll out to Fort Gordon to start retraining in Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
They don't know where they're going, they don't know when, and they don't know when they'll return home. The only thing they've been told is to get ready for possible deployment to somewhere in the Middle East.
They all expect that means Iraq. That means they need to be prepared. They are weekend warriors no more.
"For us, being new lieutenants, we have to get our guys up to speed and get ourselves up to speed," said 24-year-old Lt. Napoleon Parker. "There is quite a lot of work ahead of us."
Sgt. Leroy Kirkpatrick, a 17-year Army veteran, sat quietly as specialists whooped it up with girls clad in camouflage hot pants and tank tops emblazoned with the words "Weapons of Mass Distraction." The 54-year-old vet said he was a team leader for a platoon, and had joined the National Guard a year ago to catch up his retirement time and qualify for a military pension. He left the Army in 1994 during downsizing.
"Some of them haven't been overseas, and some of them have only been to basic training, so it's going to be a good challenge to work together and train as a team," the Lawrenceville man said.
"I'm a little rusty, too."
Captain Michael Cannon said the company doesn't know where it's headed in six months. "Morale is extremely high," he said. "Our soldiers believe in what they're doing and they trust the guys to their left and right."
Daniel Threzkeld, a 20-year-old from Cartersville, said he is excited about the possibility of going to war.
"To have the opportunity to go into battle makes me very happy," he said.
But Tuesday night, over beer, wings and pasta supplied by Hooters Gwinnett as a farewell present to the troops, war looked to be a far-off concern. A photographer snapped pictures of a Hooters girl astride a soldier's backpack as he stood with his rifle pointed to the ground.
The girls let the men know they appreciated them.
"God love them," joked Spc. Kevin Elrod of Gainesville, who has been in the Guard since 1989, as he watched the Hooters reps hang on the men. "And people ask what we're fighting for."
pics?
I imagine your attitude will change rather quickly, Daniel. At least I hope so.
Doesn't sound too different from what Patton used to say.
Fort Gordon
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..."...A photographer snapped pictures of a Hooters girl astride a soldier's backpack as he stood with his rifle pointed to the ground. The girls let the men know they appreciated them. "God love them," joked Spc. Kevin Elrod of Gainesville, who has been in the Guard since 1989, as he watched the Hooters reps hang on the men. "And people ask what we're fighting for."
Hooters does a good job hiring girls with good sense and well as girls with good looks.
For some combat it is apparently the ultimate high - but with time and maturity they will probably wish it on none of theirs.
Hooters Girls deserve praise for giving them a heroes sendoff.
So9
From another Hooters thread last week. 
is that jen and barb bush?
I don't THINK so.
I think it's hilarious that people on FR are suddenly talking about how classy Hooters girls are since they decided to "support the troops". I guess if some hookers provided free service to the military, we would start calling them classy businesswomen with good sense. LOL
It's happened before. i.e. Civil War and WWII.
Considering that they are not prostitutes, I do indeed think that Hooters girls (and the company by extension) are very classy for doing this.
If you believe that you have proof that Hooters girls are prostitutes, you should post it here.
I only go to Hooters for the food. (and I only read Playboy for the articles.)
I don't care about Hooters girls. That wasn't the point. Never mind. LOL
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