[Wneighbor]

Never, ever, enough good people. A "ready, willing, and able" is always welcome.

hehehe... I checked after 9-11, they don't want me now.... when I was of an age, I was raising kids. Now the kids are grown and I'd be perfect for one of those mathmatically related jobs but ~sigh~ ya know, they think I'm too old!

(and i gots another birthday in 12 days)

[snippy_about_it]

Hey, I've got another one of those birthdays in 9 days.

[Iris7]

Yeah, they won't look at me either. They just want the young, dumb, enthusiastic, and obedient. Got a bunch of young officers who don't want a subordinate old enough to be their father.

Perhaps their fear is justified. Out come a batch of orders, the usual sort of stuff, and the old buck sargent takes the young captain, colonel, whatever aside and tells him, "Sir, you don't want to do that."

The young officer knows that the old boy knows what he is saying, so he has to say to the troops either "I just now figured out my orders are full of (stuff), forget about them", or he can tell the old sargent "Did I hear you say that you want to be a private?" to which the old boy will answer, "No Sir, I just don't want to kill the lads for no reason."

The young officer tells the old timer, "Get lost, PRIVATE." The old timer responds, "With all due respect, Sir, I demand a Court Martial."

See?