=> Subject: RE: [OT] A Soldier's Prayer for America in 2008 => => On Monday, December 11, 2006 10:31 AM Hal Kaplan wrote: => => <snipped> => Active duty is the only way to go. If you are going to be => in it, then be in it. That reserve crap is great as long as => there is no war or similar activity. The reservists got to => see the down-side of their deal and now a lot of them are pissed. => => Why are the reservists (are all of them?) sent to Baghdad => and those who enlisted are in Germany, Japan, Hawaii? => => There was a funny skit on the Daily Show a couple weeks ago => about a guy who joined the military and was sent to the => Mexican border. He said that there were 2 places to go... => Iraq and not Iraq. He said that if they find a pile of trash => along the side of the road in Iraq they send out a robot to => make sure it was safe. At the border they could care less => about the trash. He was living it up and it was funny and true. => => David L. Crooks =>
There are a lot of differences between the service branches. When I was in the USAF, I had volunteered to go to SEA (Vietnam, Thailand, Laos) to get it out of the way. I did not want the possibility of being shipped there hanging over me. That is when I found out that as a newbie, I was not allowed to go over there; it was reserved for senior personnel. Why? Except for pilots and certain other aircrew members (which I was not), SEA was a vacation. You were hundreds of miles from action. You cycled the aircraft once a day and while they were out bombing and strafing, you were pretty much free to do almost anything. OTOH, the Army sent you over while the shine on your shoes was still drying and you had a combat life expectancy of 14 seconds. Next! It would not surprise me if this continues today. This is going to happen in almost any large organization with significant momentum. B+ HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
