Posted on 08/26/2009 9:11:49 AM PDT by AUH2O Repub
Just heard on noon news that Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. What an insult to our troops!
My friend that made E-5 was also on a two year enlistment.
there is one good thing about this.
we can easily find his grave and leave VERY PERSONAL mementos ...
We can also leave some nice Mary Joe memorabilia
“My Father is buried there. His marker says “WWll/Korea/Vietnam”. What will Kennedy’s say?”
Capitalist USA....
Nope. I know plenty of folks who did two year tours between 1967 and 1973 ( covering the general years there with different folks). Most of them came out as E5s. Specilist to Seargent was not then and is not now that unusual.
Don’t know about now but the Army web site suggests that one can end up as an E3 within 12 months which suggest that our boy Teddy even by today’s standards was a guy who like to sit around and not do much.
And then went down to Va law school and accumulated a lot of drunk driving tickets. I believe there was some academic shinanigans there as well
is he
he never attended that granny o his which he said he loves so much and had to go back to HI in a rush before hte election AFTER she came out of the hospital.
course it was a coincidence that the court there was looking at his past records like B/C
no doubt! I see someone else had replied up-thread similarly to what I had posted, so I apologize for repeating that.
Well, I don't know about your particular unit but if you missed a certain amount of drills in mine you were not allowed to re-enlist and, if a member were on his/her initial enlistment and missed drills, they were sent to the active USMC or Navy...to my knowledge that's the way the Army and Air Force Reserve Component worked too. I suppose the Guard works differently but according to this: it doesn't
Don’t be trying to convince this audience that if they join the Guard that they are signing their life away, if they want to move to another state or if they have to miss a few drills then the Guard is fine with that.
Well, I'm certainly glad that you're now out and we don't have to depend on your "patriotism" and demonstrated attitude about missing drills and probably vital training to defend our country but thanks for your service anyway!
I wonder if Bush’s Guard duty might have been a little more intense than yours, what did you do in the navy reserves?
It began after boot camp at Naval Supply Activity DaNang Vietnam (no combat but one attack on the base where I spent about 8 hours in a bomb shelter) ... I signed up for an active duty stint to get out of there and went into the submarine service where I spent four years; after discharge I went on to college on the G.I. Bill and joined the Navy Reserves and retired after Desert Storm and Shield in March 1991.
As a dishonorable man you tried to twist the facts about the National Guard and making up drills into a lying claim about me missing drills.
Actually I spent a lot of time on active duty, not only not missing drills but filling in the slots for overseas duty with foreign Special Operations units, being such a high speed unit made it difficult to keep our training exercises fully manned since it involved so much time to off work to maintain the foreign assignments, it was a unit that saw much sacrifice from it's members in income and family life. For those of us that were spending months a year on various overseas foreign training it meant living in poverty and working low paid, short lived jobs in between missions and high levels of fitness training in our own time.
Your disgusting attack on Bush's military service says a lot about you. Maybe you have a thing against guys that do exciting things in the military.
So, it is “hate” if we state facts about Teddy? What would you find not “hateful”, a respectful “he’s a member of the club and a great defender of his beliefs” like Orrin Hatch (who is still trolling for a Supreme Court seat) and “hands across the aisle” McCain. What is hate, has come out of the mouth of this political pig- every step in his career pushed the elitist agenda. This thread barely scratches the surface of his agenda & behaviour. FACTS not hatred- make the distinction.
Please see this post
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2324885/posts?page=209#209
and thanks for not pointing out my spelling error in the post you were replying to.
When I was in the USN between 1975 and 1979, I made E5 and that was absbolutely as high as I could have gone in that time.
I know because I studied for the tests, and took them absolutely as soon as I was elegible, and made the first cut each time.
Unless the rules have changed (or unless they are different in a war zone or certain specialties, which is entirely possible) you couldn’t make E4 in two years.
I sure did and I saw other people do it as well as I said in post 320.
I never heard any of this stuff, why would a command want a guy that made E-3 in his first 8 weeks (basic training) in the army to be unable to ever be used as an E-4 or even an E-5 before his two years was over?
Personally I was annoyed that it took me almost a year to make E-4 and was starting to feel jerked around.
I have refrained from making hateful posts about the man until AFTER he is buried, but I have to say the thought of him being interred at Arlington makes me ill. It is a slap in the face to all our honored Veterans.
On the other hand it does make it easier to piss on their graves. So if you go to the September 12th fiesta, you can stop off and piss on Teddy’s grave on the way out of town.
I am a diesel pickumup driver, horse owner right wing radical in Montana. Don’t give me ideas. I don’t want to piss my wife off but she might join me. Who knows!! LOL
I have wondered what happened when Kennedy drove off a
bridge and killed a woman. Was there ever an official
investigation? Was there a grand jury hearing? Perhaps
the lady’s family was paid to keep quiet. How did Kennedy
get off “scott free”?
That was news to me. I think they did it differently in the Seventies...you could not be more than an E1 coming out of eight weeks of boot camp, I recall getting E2 when I finished “A” school, and didn’t get my E3 until some point later when I had finished with a training squadron and had been with my real squadron for a while.
But if you and others say it can happen, I can believe it.
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