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Politics : Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1026)	8/15/1999 9:36:00 AM
From: nuke44	Respond to of 3389

I agree that a stint of military service can be beneficial to just about anyone. Contrary to most recruiting ads, the most important things an individual can gain from the military are not technical skills and tuition assistance for college, but rather discipline and a sense of duty other than to oneself. For my part, 25 years in the Air Force was a continuous learning experience. In 25 years, 20 of which were spent abroad, I received an education in mankind that I could not have gotten through a Harvard doctorate program in anthropology. I feel fortunate for the opportunities I was given, to experience firsthand, what many people only read about. In return for those opportunities, I was only too glad to do my part "for the mission". I served for one year and five months under the Clinton administration and I can say that it was the most demoralizing time of my military career, unsurpassed even during the darkest days during and shortly after Viet Nam. The irony of military service under the current administration is that we demand the highest ethical standards from our men and women, and expect them to give of themselves unselfishly while at the same time their commander in chief and his administration have shown that ethics is not even an issue in their own lives. On top of that, from the outset, it has been made clear to the men and women in our military that this commander in chief holds them all in utter disdain. In his own words, Clinton was and still is "too good" to serve in the military. His actions as Commander in Chief and his utter disregard for the welfare of our men and women in uniform, have done more damage to our military in the last six years than any enemy could inflict.