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SEALs have a higher responsibility than most. First to the Navy, then to their teams, then to their families. How dare they let down their nation for a quick high? Being an elite warrior in our forces is a privilege, and they wasted it. Kids-will-be-kids, my ass. Kids don't belong in the Navy. You leave that shit in basic training. They wasted the Navy's time, training and crapped on their own personal honor. The price they pay will be small compared to the people who counted on them.

Yeah, well, if things were only so clear-cut in life.

In the meantime we must remember ... our great and hallowed leader who just made 17 million on his book and is now on a tour to the cheers of millions ... never inhaled. Why didn't some of you get off your a$$es and run the Commander in Chief out of office for the same thing? I'll tell you why. Because it is easier for you to pass judgement on kids ... and that is what I find pathetic about all of this. None of you have been there - yet you pass these extreme judgements and all you are using for the basis of your ire are details given by the same liberal media that lies to us on a daily basis about most other things of importance and meaning.

Pathetic.

Now allow me to enlighten a couple of you tight a$$es who think you know everything. I and a few others have had enough fun laughing at you - it's time to educate you frickin' know-it-alls.

The 82nd Airborne was actually nicknamed the Jumpin' Junkies in WWII because they got a high on jumping into dangerous situations. The casualty rate for American Paratroops in both WWII and Vietnam was well above 70%. Yet they kept coming and a reporter by the name of Galloway said, "they are junkies for the jump" as he witnessed the Eighty-Deuce in the Meusse Argonne offensive. It was in the Black Forest campaign that a Deucer walked to the front of the line and stated, "I'm the 82nd Airborne Division and this is as far as the bastards are going" ... a now famous combat quote. Galloway also said at the time about the 82nd, "they give the enemy soldier the maximum opportunity to die for his country" in a take off of a famous Patton saying.

It was in the post Vietnam years, when all units had problems with dope smoking, that Hollywood made a play on the WWII moniker "jumpin' junkies" and turned it into something that it wasn't ... although there was for years a serious problem with alcohol in Division.

But the public picked up on it and we used to make fun of it among ourselves because people actually believed the bull$#!+ press when it suit them ... just like some of you pukes are now. The fact of the matter is that the last thing you want to be is high and unalert when jumping out of a C-130 or 141 with a 100 pound ruck between your legs and a M-16 under your armpit. But you jerks wouldn't take time to get that because you are too busy pointing fingers.

I was part of a hand picked unit known as COHORT 1 in the early eighties and in five years we had two people who failed drug tests ... both were booted immediately. One of them I escorted to the MPs myself while pulling CQ. So don't give me your BS about how I have condoned drug use in the military. What we have illustrated here however is how quick some of you are to judge someone guilty until proven innocent. You don't know jack $#!+ about these SEALS accused in this article yet you jumped them like you are judge and jury and that makes me sick. You have no idea of their sacrifice and you cannot fathom their predicament yet you are so filthy quick to want to nail their hides to the wall.

Like I said, you'd fall for anything. Those of us in this thread were making fun of your preconceived ignorant notions. We all felt you taking the bait with the story about police call and picking up roaches outside of the barracks. We filled your hollywood believed ideals. You are just too self absorbed to realize that you were the brunt of our jokes. Have a nice life chumps. No wonder so many kids these days are so put off by so many so-called conservatives. You give the rest of us a bad name. You are the same people who scream about the bias of the press - that is until they tell you something that you want to believe, then they are fine, then they are believable. How hypocritical is that. It is sickening.