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>>>2. I know exactly where the “never means having to say your sorry” line originated. Even though I never watched the movie. But that wasn’t my point. My point had to do with connecting that sentiment to using or bearing high-powerered weaponry. One thing I learned in the military is that legitimately tough guys don’t talk tough because they don’t need to. They’re REAL men. Secure and mature. As for me being a “REMF,” you have no idea how or where I served during my Army career. I will only say I enlisted as a private, became an NCO, and then a commissioned officer. And among the things I learned moving through the ranks is that the guys who throw the REMF slur around are usually the REMFs or PX heroes themselves. Stop giving vets a bad name and stop feeding the anti-military Left propaganda machine.
>>>I came on active duty as a Private too, made E-6 acting E-7 in 14 months in RVN 11B3P, (4th PsyWar Bn Road Runners) returned to CONUS, attended OCS and went back to SEA (11ACR, 4th PsyWar Bn Road Runners and MACV) as an 1193 and after being chopped up, a 5505. As far as mentioning a rifle by name in the same sentence as an “Al and Tipper Gore movie” “giving vets a bad name”, you had better cover your ears, get the kids out the room, and turn on your tape recorder.
“Bloop Tube.”
“Beehive”
“xm177e2”
“Grease Gun”
and the ever so profane (I’m whispering now...) “.45!... or if I’m speaking to the far-far-far left in my secret meetings with them at the Skull and Bones secret meeting room at the secret location at Yale.. “Forty Five Caliber, Magazine Fed Colt Semi-Automatic Pistol, Model 1911A1”” (That last phrase is so sinful and anti social many people rank it up with the N word!
>>>3. As for defending the “idiot with the camera,” I have no idea if the guy was cooking meth on his property or was completely innocent. If you’ll actually read what I typed, you’ll see I was not defending him. Why don’t you read up on 225+ years of constitutional jurisprudence and learn just how the US Supreme Court has treated that amendment on a case by case, concept by concept basis.
If you had any legal training, you would know that there is no guilt or innocence issues, because he has not been charged with a crime. Guilt or innocence are issues involving crimes only, not civil matters.
I’ll be glad to do your legal research for you. I’m semi-retired, but for you, I’ll cut my prices. $850.00 an hour, VISA, MasterCard or Amex accepted, or I’ll take your check.
As far as the naming a rifle being stretched to “feeding the anti-military Left propaganda machine” and the rest of this BS,,,,, get a life.
I only mentioned my rank progression to inform you that I had seen things from the grunt level through the middle to the headshed. I spent time in PSYOPS, too. In fact I instructed at the school at Bragg. Big flipping whoopie.
I guess we can seek to impress all the nonvets here by laying our professional resumes alongside one another and copmparing weenie sizes.
I served with ACRs, too. So? And light and heavy divisions. And SIBs. And at Corps-level. And I also taught at the intel school at HootchyKootchy. And I was branched infantry, armor and intel at various times. And I worked StratIntel for USSOCOM at MacDill. And USCENTCOM. And I was a Vietnamese interrogator. And distinguished grad of my OCS class. And my BCT brigade. And DLI. And I taught college for years. And I worked in politics. And a grandfather. And aren’t I just a wonderful macho patriot. And aren’t we really impressing the hell out of people by going back and forth like two five year olds in a sandbox?
And I’m also a civilian marksmanship instructor. So was I supposed to be afraid to read your list of firearms? I presume your ability to type the names of some firearms is supposed to have a purpose . . . what? To impress everyone in some way?
Do we need some grizzled old Ranger SGM, SEAL Masterchief or retired Marine recon guy — the REAL studs — to come in here and really establish who has length and breadth and juevos to match?
How about we both get off the high horses (which aren’t that high at all)?
As for the services you provide for $850 an hour? I never knew the girls on Tu Do Street were such good instructors. Did you earn a skill badge for that?