Posted on 10/14/2022 10:03:24 AM PDT by knarf
(USAF 1966-70)
Most people are just useful idiot lemmings. It is as simple as that.
You might ask your Sis if she believes in 'Workers Compensation Benefits' for workers hurt doing their job.
It varied widely. I was an 05B MOS (interspeed radio operator).
In Vietnam at least in my Air Mobile infantry unit, that MOS gave you a 25lb radio (infamous prick25) to hump in the jungle along with all your regular gear. They supposedly had a 15 second or so life expectancy in a firefight because the VC and NVA knew to take out the radios to keep the artillery, gunships and fighter bombers away.
I lasted 7 months thru TET 68 and a good 20+ Air Assaults before their statistics caught up with me, but was better than 15 seconds.
6th Bn, 56th ADA, "Night Hides Not." Our mission was air base defense: Hahn, Spangdahlem, and Bitburg. Allowed me to live off base in Traben-Trarbach, a lovely town that straddles the Mosel River.
Like most, I came back a changed man: more mature, and self confident. It was inevitable, after serving as a Platoon Leader, XO, and S-4.
That is amazing, floating down the Mekong.. I was at Udorn on some some contract work and heard about two other Americans that age that tried it. They disappeared and there was a big fuss, some planes were sent out to look for them. Rumor was they were captured by the Lao insurgents. I think one was named Sharman, I remember it sounded like the toilet paper. You must have been lucky. You must also have some lovely pictures.
Thank you for your service to America. Too many guys came back from the Viet War with drug habits and wounded spirits.
“ I find myself asking just what the hell was the point of serving this country? Why the hell did we bother?”
We appreciate what you did, thank you .
This thread, distilled.
Obama lectured, “That’s not who we are.”
I reply, “So we blazed a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train,
60 miles in latitude 300 to the Main,
Treason fled before us for resistance was in vain,
While we were marching through Georgia!”
Sherman wrote that if a crow were to cross the devastation he wrought, it would have to bring a sack lunch.
Hard. War. And THAT is who we are.
The Mekong is very low now due to all the power dams China put in up river.
I was amazed how many locals were panning gold along the river.
Just did this in 2020..
Nice! Thx
Found this. Cool site. https://civilwarbookofdays.org/
“A carrion crow in his flight across must either carry his rations or starve.” Sheridan’s Scorched Earth Policy in Shenandoah Valley.
September 23, 1864. After the Confederate defeats at the Battle of Winchester and Fisher’s Hill, the devastation of the Shenandoah Valley followed; General Phil Sheridan ensured that the land was useless to the enemy as a base of military operations or as a source of material supplies. In fact, it was left in such a state, that, in Sheridan’s words,
‘A carrion crow in his flight across must either carry his rations or starve.’
Carrion crows are birds of farmland and grassland, but are extremely adaptable and will come to gardens for food, often seeming to be quite fearless. They feed on dead animals (as their name suggests), invertebrates and grain, as well as taking eggs and chicks from other birds’ nests.
My family has always engaged in total war at the boundaries of the laws of warfare. Like Sherman, we conduct Hard War when given our head.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Proclaimed by the Marquis de Lafayette, with advice from Jefferson
Article I – Human Beings are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.
Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.
Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the fruition of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places, and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
Article VII – No man can be accused, arrested nor detained but in the cases determined by the law, and according to the forms which it has prescribed. Those who solicit, dispatch, carry out or cause to be carried out arbitrary orders, must be punished; but any citizen called or seized under the terms of the law must obey at once; he renders himself culpable by resistance.
Article VIII – The law should establish only penalties that are strictly and evidently necessary, and no one can be punished but under a law established and promulgated before the offense and legally applied.
Article IX – Any man being presumed innocent until he is declared culpable if it is judged indispensable to arrest him, any rigor which would not be necessary for the securing of his person must be severely reprimanded by the law.
Article X – No one may be disquieted for his opinions, even religious ones, provided that their manifestation does not trouble the public order established by the law.
Article XI – The free communication of thoughts and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man: any citizen thus may speak, write, print freely, except to respond to the abuse of this liberty, in the cases determined by the law.
Article XII – The guarantee of the rights of man and of the citizen necessitates a public force: this force is thus instituted for the advantage of all and not for the particular utility of those in whom it is trusted.
Article XIII – For the maintenance of the public force and for the expenditures of administration, a common contribution is indispensable; it must be equally distributed to all the citizens, according to their ability to pay.
Article XIV – Each citizen has the right to ascertain, by himself or through his representatives, the need for a public tax, to consent to it freely, to know the uses to which it is put, and of determining the proportion, basis, collection, and duration.
Article XV – The society has the right of requesting an account from any public agent of its administration.
Article XVI – Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers determined, has no Constitution.
Article XVII – Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity.
I've also thought that military duty is not wasted on 17 year olds, but that war is.
I think I am a more effective warrior now at 74 because I know what I am about to do to a man, or men . . . and I know why . . . and I'm completely good with that.
I think us ol' fahts are less likely to return with PTSD
Thank you.
You got that right, brother!
Thank you, brother! Rah!
Always on your six or point, wherever you need me buddy.
‘Rah!!!!
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