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Politics : The Arab-Israeli Solution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SLSUSMA who wrote (575)	6/4/2001 9:40:54 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2279

Give it a rest Slushman.. It wasn't that much of a loss for me to give up the military. I didn't have 14 years active duty, just 14 years total. And I spent quite a bit of the latter portion on TDYs after I reclassified into my last MOS. I wouldn't have drawn any sort of retirement until I was 60, anyway. Besides, a year after I left, they deployed my unit to Bosnia for 9 months.. Something that I'm happy to have missed. As for "stress cards", I was introduced to them while stationed out at Monterey in 1993... They were sending these young pups fresh out of basic, with unpressed uniforms and unshined boots out there to do their language training before being sent to their AIT. We had to essentially show them how to do a bunch of stuff they should have learned in Basic. No one ever flashed one at me since yelling wasn't my style, but they told me the stories about Basic. But you can see that many had very little respect for military bearing. As for me.. I went through Benning. We didn't have time off, stress cards, and we had to keep our boots shined and uniforms ironed. And we had Drills who just loved to make us do grass drills in the hot summer sun. And on our time off, we went on long nature walks with full rucks (I usually wound up being RTO which absolutely sucked). But you should really worry more about your own story. After all, you're the one who is trying to tell us that it's permissible to copy classified information off of a secure computer network and put it on your personal storage media. Btw, I never claimed to have been combat. Why are you claiming that I have? And given that you probably were like most "spin and grinners" (assuming that's what you were), the closest you ever got to the field was when you were reading F&S in the can. And I'm sure your concept of hell is a day without McDonalds... Hawk