Posted on 09/13/2022 2:37:09 PM PDT by george76
“During the Jimmy Carter administration in the late 1970s, a period widely acknowledged as one of the lowest points for the armed services, many service members ended up on food stamps. But it remains a national disgrace.“
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I served during that time and it was poverty. The GI bill was also pitifully shameful.
I didn’t know any better at the time, just being out of high school and my father had died years prior to my enlisting. I got a whole $65 dollars a month for hazardous duty pay.
They’re much better off today and the GI bill too. All but the Marines have tremendous enlistment bonuses.
This has been the situation for at least 50 years, the Nixon days.
It used to be that military service meant barely enough money to keep you in cigarettes and on-base booze, with an occasional hooker on payday.
He looks like Darth Vader.
Don’t say that name out loud. Saying it out loud three times and he pops up like mushrooms in horse poop after a rain.
Yes this did happen in the 70’ I remember navy wives who worked in the hospital I worked at in San diego, had to work and get food stamps.
Yup wearing a mask and shield.
“Yup wearing a mask and shield.”
Darth Lloyd of the Sith.
Idi Amin Austin.
Idi Amin Dodo.
Looks like Idi Amin.
It fits.
—”Observers stated that he was very awkward climbing in and
out of the dumpster and exhibited no Bionic abilities.”
In the photo above your post, it appears he has a flack jacket or something under his jacket.
Whatever it is it would slow him existing a greasy dumpster.
Occasionally some get stuck in a dumpster and take a ride to the dump.
—”have PT standards been relaxed?”
He might be wearing a flack jack or two under his jacket.
He may have had to drive down MLK boulevard on the way in?
He looks like Idi Amin in that picture.
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