Posted on 10/17/2004 4:19:39 PM PDT by Incorrigible
"I wish they would let me seve again."
I would I could too!!
Yes please tell him thanks! The VietNam vets just keep on giving!
Amazing. It must have been a battlefield promotion to Colonel because all his superior officers had been killed.
When I see the words "citizen" and "soldier" together, I become suspicious.
Your post made me curious, so I went to Google and found this about an 8 year-old recruit in the Civil War!
http://www.usd.edu/smm/AveryBrown.html
FReeper makes Coast Guard / Coast Guard Auxiliary History
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/798008/posts
That was the most brutal war this nation has seen.
Will do.
Hey, if I offer my services again, they may give me one for free!
I'm in the same "boat". I was a Navy Nuke submariner in the '70's, and have been involved with designing and installing supervisory control and data aquisition systems for a variety of industries and applications. I'd love to volunteer to serve my country once again.
I also checked with the contractors outfits and they only want youngn's just out of SEAL school. You find a way, let me know...
Try KBRjobs.com. Yeah, I know it's a subsidiary of Halliburton and Cheney's previous job, but I worked for them for 5 years in the Balkans and Afghanistan. We provided ALL the support services for our men and women in uniform. We cooked three wholesome meals per day, did laundry, built and maintained the billets, maintained the clients' vehicles, operated MWR facilities, operated airfields, conducted massive logistical operations and convoys, cleaned latrines and showers, and even took out the garbage. All this was so the war-fighter could concentrate on his/her mission.
I was first introduced to KBR while serving on active duty in Bosnia. I couldn't believe the service we were getting! I decided that once I retired from active duty, I wanted to be a part of those service operations. It beat the hell out of living under a poncho and washing clothes in a wet weather bag.
KBR does hire the average American and quite a few foreign nationals who have proved themselves in previous operations. There is no PT testing or age requirements, just a desire to make a difference in our troopers lives while they continue to take the fight to the enemy.
Amen! I tried to sign up after 911 - no dice - even though I am a fully trained Counterintelligence Agent. I'm not much older than 50, and would gladly go back into a combat zone for our country. I have often wished that the President would pass some special order that would allow those former military members to serve again. If medical issues are a problem, let us sign waivers, let us serve only behind desks in the US - something - ANYTHING, but don't let fully trained, patriotic Americans sit by as our country needs them.
This is one of the neatest topics ever. I'm 55, Vietnam vet. My maintenance company got mobilized last year and I spent eight months in Uzbekistan, in the OEF theater. Lots of reservists and contract civilians there, my age and older. We supported operations in Afghanistan. There's plenty to do. It sure gives you a reason to suit up and head out every morning. Great to be part of the mission!
Geez I should have read your post first! I was at K2 in Uzbekistan 2003-04 doing direct support maintenance. We lived in tents (new billets were going up when I left) but the chow was the most outstanding I have ever known, sanitation was excellent, and Kellogg Brown & Root in general did a terrific job. Glad for this opportunity to say thanks to KBR!
Ask him, Timmy, if he feels like one of the children John Kerry says we're sending to die for a mistake?
This whole thread smashes the myth that we're sending our youth to die.
I am so tired of liberals spreading lies.
I regret that I didn't serve when I was younger. Now I'm too old for the Guard or Reserves [you have to have served when you were younger]. I would go.
Some of you might know this story better than me. Apparently there was this old F-4 jockey that they decided to play a prank on a few years back [I believe it was post-9/11]. They got an actual USAF major to help.
The major told him this bogus story that there were a fair amount of F-4s that were still operational [I saw one at Dulles Airport around '94, I think] and there was a temporary shortage of pilots.
So the major asked him [a man in his 60s] if he was willing to fly a few missions over Afghanistan until they got some fresh pilots ready to deploy. They were expecting him to express shock or disbelief.
Instead, with complete seriousness, he asked, "when do we ship out?" The major got a bit choked up from what I understand, then informed him of the prank.
This doesn't surprise me. I knew an old guy who used to fly F-102 missions over Viet Nam who confided to me that he wouldn't mind trying an F-16 out one time.
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