Posted on 08/25/2006 2:43:32 PM PDT by george76
I don't think so in this case. He joined after 9-11. He had to know the possibilities when he joined. Not that almost anyone, especially someone getting a commission, wouldn't know that anyway. It's a big decision, full of those sorts of weighty factors. Also there's a big difference between making it at 18 and making it at 21 or 22.
His father is big left wing politico, IOW, he's a Red Diaper Baby, with plenty of money and good prospects in civilian life, at a government job if nothing else. He likely wanted to "make a statement".
Well thats even more impressive...for a semester's worth of training, you would have made your professors at the academny proud.
Clowns like this just really make me mad. I think that what makes me more angry, though, is that he'll be held up like a trophy by the left and not only with he break the oath he swore, but he'll be used as a propaganda tool to beat down our REAL men further. Bastards.
Excellent!
This group of loyal Americans will cut him off at his traitors knees if he tries to use the race card as a reason for his desertion.
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