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"Thank you Beck for inserting a dose of reality.

And thank you. I'm sure 99% of the other vets on this board will tell anyone that any battle plan has good and bad suprises. I'm praying that W sets the American public straight and does not overhype our superiority to the point where everyone thinks this will be a brief war. Not only will we have some intense battles in Iraq, but I'm afraid, based on Ridge's comments, some major problems at home. And I'm still not 100% sold on the all new "Clintonized" pc military that was not there when I retired in 92-93. I pray for everyone and especially our boys overseas tonight.

74 posted on 03/18/2003 9:55:34 PM PST by Beck_isright (A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. - Gen. Patton)

And I'm still not 100% sold on the all new "Clintonized" pc military that was not there when I retired in 92-93. I pray for everyone and especially our boys overseas tonight.

There are still alot of us that were not effected by that. As a matter of fact, I can say that most of us dispise the PC military of the 90's.

The Army I came into in 1984 and left in 1988 is much different than the Army I came back into in 1993. The group of young officers I have contact with in a daily basis are much more like what I first came in with. They are truly focused at the task at hand and understand that they are not just here to payoff the ROTC obligation.