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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: jlallen who wrote (447493)8/25/2003 2:39:40 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
You think all lifers "made a career out of serving their country?" Think again. Many "lifers" have made a living out of taking advantage of the often incompetent bureaucracy that is the army.

Some of them made a living in Vietnam in the black market. In the jungle we sometimes had shortages of G.I. gear that was readily available on the black market in places like Saigon. When we were resupplied by chopper, the "hot meal" that came in ammo cans was usually hard-boiled eggs and strips of bacon while the lifers ate steaks and fried chicken. Our cold drink was a nasty tasting thing called "squelch" while the lifers drank the root beer and cokes.

And when the metal was flying where were all those career men who "made a living out of serving their country?" Only a handful of them were in the jungle and, of those, most of them were there to get their ticket punched and then out so fast you forgot they were even there. Among the non-officers in in my company in 69-70 there were usually NO career enlisted men in the jungle. Too many men were getting killed and they found a way out.

So when I say some lifers were incredibly ignorant, don't talk to me about dissing "those who spent made a career of serving their country......" I've been there and I know better.
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