I am an angry white male soldier and I don't care what you think

my head ^ | Freeplancer

[185JHP]

"I'm solid and running cool, and I'll consider you to be so also, unless you show that you're otherwise."

[metalmanx2j]

Um...does this post have any point?

[RightWinger]

Thank you for your service to our country.
I appreciate all of our soldiers, including my son, who are taking on this burden.

My father is a WWII vet, I am a Vietnam War vet and my son is a Gulf War vet. War is hell but somebody has to do it.

God bless you!

[Paloma_55]

Good quote. Thats kinda what I was saying about life being bootcamp for the ever after.

[Krodg]

I don't want your encouragement or kind words about any of it because I don't deserve it, so don't even write to me with any thing nice to say.

You sure won't get that from me.

I have been a good boy in all the ways a "conservative" guy can. After years of service and crazy jobs that took me around the world, I finally got serious about my relationship with God and I got married to a great gal, and I even became proactive in politics and other worthy endeavors.

This part of your post troubled me. As a sister in Christ, I don't understand why you would lable yourself 'conservative'. God doesn't lable His children and neither should we. I also don't understand why you chose politics over studying God's word.

And after 2 years of being good, I get Cancer, and I did not give my Cancer a little pet name and have a Mommy come to my rescue

Perhaps you need to get back to the relationship with God that you told us about earlier.

[kAcknor]

Git'em Chief

Post when you can.

[higgmeister]

You don't THINK so huh?! Well, I am not a liar, so how one of us does not know something.

I said I don't see how.....

In our modern parlance that means;
I don't understand how.....
I expected you to clarify if you chose to.
Then I asked if that happens often?

I'm sorry if that sounded to you like
I was calling you a liar?

[robowombat]

I agree the author was non-specific. Looking at the last section of his commentary, I think it has do with the current chaos caused by the personnel non-policy impacting certain groups in the Reserves and Guard. These include but are not limited to indeterminate mobilization release dates for a relative handful on occupation specialties, serial call ups of personnel with certain specialties, meager support infrastructure, short notice activation combined with 'I dunno' response to important questions relative to equipment shortages, deployment schedules, etc. and 'could care less' attitude from both CONUS bas personnel and theater reception groups as to fill of required equipment as well as lack of basic (very basic) soldier comfort items.

The GOWT has gone on (three years and five months) nearly as long as the Civil War ( four years and a couple months if you count until all former parts of the CSA were occupied) or WW2 (American phase three years nine months) and appears to be headed towards exceeding the duration of those conflicts and possibly the record of the Viet Nam War. Unlike the first two of those conflicts a relatively small slice of America has been carrying the long haul in this war. Also due to the 'peace dividend' downsizing of the regular armed forces from 1991 to 2000 the reserves and guard have been used in a way no one foresaw. Not mobilized for a specific conflict but used as hole fillers in an open ended conflict of indeterminate duration and geographic scope. The result is that the Army and marines in particular are badly stressed institutions and at the grunt level starting to show the wear and tare. So I am not surprised that there are a fair number of very angry middle aged men wearing the uniform.

[R. Scott]

Also due to the 'peace dividend' downsizing of the regular armed forces from 1991 to 2000 the reserves and guard have been used in a way no one foresaw.

It was foreseen. The Guard and Reserve was integrated into the regular forces to act as a brake on going to war. If a large segment of the population (guard and Reserve) were called on it should be politically unacceptable. In this case the brake didn’t work.
Being retired active Army, I find it difficult to empathize with those who did not read and head their contract.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Exactly why did you feel the need to post this immature drivel on Free Republic? You're a douche.

[robowombat]

What was expected was something like the First Gulf War not a treadmill to infinity.

[R. Scott]

We learned to expect the unexpected.

[mamelukesabre]

Okey-dokey. well nice talking to ya.

[freedumb2003]

Nice rant.

8 out of 10.

Sorry, I said something good. How about "work harder to get the other 2 points"?