A LOOK INSIDE THE MIND OF A GENERATION-X DESERTER (FUNNY AND MADDENING AT THE SAME TIME)

BUCKETFOOT-AL | 1997 | USAF SECOND LIEUTENANT 'MARK'

[r9etb]

When the needs and longings of one of the deeper, richer levels cries out for fulfillment, I can deny it only a little while.

The ol' gaydar lit up like a Christmas tree on this one....

[Incorrigible]

Here's the thread related to that article:

Gen X turns 40

Baby boomers held off having kids for so long, most Gen X parents from from the previous generation.

[Jim Hill]

. . . . . don't ask, don't tell.

[Gunrunner2]

>>I am an officer, an AF member, an (American) US citizen, a man, an artist, a mammal, and a sentient being, in that order.<<

Ahh. . .no way. . .how about revering that order and deleting "man," "officer" and "US Citizen."

>>. . .only I remain, a little boy standing at the edge of an emerald ocean, tickled by the breeze and smiling at the gulf, no longer even grasping why people spend their lifetimes staring into cathode ray tubes decoding the language of flashing lights and smattering printers.<<

What a bunch of self-centered nonsense and twaddle.

>>Will you touch my life?<<

Arrogant and ignorant. . ."my life"!!!??

The rest is nothing but the rantings of a self-deluded Hemingway wanna-be.

[BenLurkin]

"Oh, USAFA admissions office, please turn away all future applicants who list an interest in art."

Probably the only sensible thing in the message.

[qam1]

Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

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[qam1]

Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.  

[qam1]

^$*(!@^#$(!!@*(&!

Double post

[Gunrunner2]

I have no love for the Academy either, but to state "A degree from the USAFA won't get its holder into graduate school without additional courses," is not correct.
As well as your statement ". . .even AFIT requires USAFA graduates to take additional classes before they will be admitted."

AFIT welcomes Academy grads.

[Lazamataz]

He's poetic, I'll give him that. However, in complete rebuttal to absolutely everything he wrote, I will counter: "Things matter."

[qam1]

Trying to pin this one loser on all of Gen-X is ridiculous. Let's not forget we are the Generation that brought forth Pat Tillman

Plus see

‘Bulldog Brigade' no barking dog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365466/posts

Anti-war generation watches its children go to war
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339068/posts

What's a peacenik to do when son joins Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307970/posts

A new generation of heroes surfaces
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231956/posts

U.S.: The Antiwar Movement -- Where Have All The Protests Gone?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1141846/posts

Is Iraq Becoming like Vietnam? Only if You’re Stuck in Woodstock
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1122681/posts

[The Shrew]

Thought I'd ping you to the guy who, if he gained more noteriety, would do for the AFA what OJ did for USC!

Semper Fi,

TS

[Al Simmons]

" . . . . . don't ask, don't tell."

Don't laugh. He was married to a BABE.

She's the one who finally convinced him to give up his quest to become a citizen of some Central American po-dunk country (it was one of the smallest ones) and got him to come back to 'face the music'.

Hope she's found a manlier man by now.

[Al Simmons]

When did I slander the entire 'Gen X'? The title correctly states 'a look into the mind of a Gen-X deserter'

How does that slander all members of that generation?

Can we agree that as a general rule, Gen-Xers have been a bit flaky in their youth (at least til 9/11)?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Did you go to the link I gave you? Gen X'ers were born in the years from 1965 to 1979.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Let's due the math. The link you gave me says that Gen X is turning forty. It is now 2005. That means that Gen X began in 1965.

[DuncanWaring]

A degree from the USAFA won't get its holder into graduate school without additional courses,...

Wasn't always that way.

[Incorrigible]

Did you go to the link I gave you?

Yes.  Did you go to the link I gave you?

Gen X'ers were born in the years from 1965 to 1979.

Right, and Baby Boomers were born in 1946-1964.  Thus the oldest would be 19 in 1965.  And since career was one of the defining issues for Baby Boomer women, many did not have a first child until late in the 70s.  Thus most Gen Xers are actually children of the previous generation.  Generation Y is also called the "echo boom" since most of them are children of Baby Boomers.

[Al Simmons]

The young Lieutenant was born in 1973. Hence, he was (is) a Gen-Xer.

[Incorrigible]

All this wrangling for nothing! I stand corrected!