[U S Army EOD]

Well just jump right in there and start that company and write me from Mars. There is an old Marine Corp recruiting poster that shows this Marine looking at this guy reading a newspaper. He says to the civilian, "We don't read about history, we make it".

So now is your big chance.

(PS: The reason the Marine doesn't like to read about history is probably because most Jarheads can't read).

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Are you irritated with me because I referred to an external site that also quotes a farewell address from a morally-driven Republican president who had considerable military experience?

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Eisenhower

Doesn't Ike's analysis hit uncomfortably close to home regarding our space program?

[dcwusmc]

How about you reading THIS Marine's comment>>> Who can't read? Bite me. (Said in jest.) My brother joined the Army out of H.S. (1965) Poor guy couldn't spell "cat" so the army, in its wisdom, made him a clerk-typist. Then he REALLY had a brain fart and decided that eating snakes and jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and wearing a Girl-Sprout beanie was more his thing. Go figure.