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

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

[sodpoodle]

Hitler was a painter! That worked out rather well!


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[Bombardier]

Deserting your post isn't "nothing." That little puke is lucky he went to one of the academies....if he'd been a mere mortal, such as an enlisted troop or a non-academy officer, he would have been sent to a military prison. Troll on back to DU. Your sniveling sounds more like it fits them.

[Bombardier]

Thanks for the link! (Born in VERY late 1963)

[stands2reason]

I know what it means, I just want to see the source for your assertion that "cissy derives from Narcissist."

Not that I don't believe you; I just never heard it before. I only know of the "sister" derivation.

[sodpoodle]

From Ovid's Narcissus (which is where narcissism is derived) As students in England, we were taught this was the origin of the derogatory term "cissy" (a man who loves himself or loves one who looks like himself) I have no proof - only my memory.

I parenthesized "prevaricatin'" because I anticipated that a FReeper such as yourself would pin me to the wall.

And you did;)

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[Darksheare]

"or got "qualms about dropping bombs on people" (as if that was such a bad thing for a young man to figure out). "
"What a wierd and stupid country we live in."

What's wrong with blowing stuff up?

[stands2reason]

Well, it does sound a bit fanciful to me, though the fact that "cissy" is the British spelling gives it slightly more credence there.

Still, "sister" seems the most likely from a semantic point of view. Sister - woman - weak - cissy

Narcissus was defined by his egocentrism rather than cowardliness or weakness.

[Darksheare]

" Much ado 'bout nothing."

???
It takes over $200,000 to train the guy, and he skips town.
How is that cost outlay with zero return 'much ado about nothing'?

[SoCal Pubbie]

I can remember, probably as early as 1962, when I was five, that I was a baby boomer. You know, part of the post war baby boom from 1946 to 1965? Then decades later some guy comes along and says oh no, you're a Jones. No thanks, I got no Jones for Jones.

[okie01]

I am no respecter of status, standards, precedent, or convention. I only want it all – is that so much? To sample every dish at the banquet of this world, to step lightly through a life without clocks and suspense slips and long staff meetings and short tempers. USAF SECOND LIEUTENANT 'MARK'

Mark? Mark Morford? The San Francisco Chronicle's public faggot? Sure sounds like him...

[Al Simmons]

"Mark? Mark Morford? The San Francisco Chronicle's public faggot? Sure sounds like him..."

Nope. Not that dude. I've given you enough clues - if you read them carefully, and Google properly, you might find the letter I quoted cause its hot off his press....he is a 'Bay area type guy' living deep in the REDDEST of the RED states (hint there).

Don't know how he managed to make it to 30!

[Al Simmons]

"Heaven knows that if I were picking candidates for a military academy, I would want someone whose artwork I would be proud to have in my house. Things like discipline and communication skills be damned. I want a freaking painter!"

*ROTFLMAO*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

1965 is 20 years "post war". To lump a newborn in with a 20-year-old as part of the same "generation" is ludicrous. Woodstock is considered the seminal event for "Baby Boomers". I was a little kid when it happened, but would be a "boomer" using that 20-year span. The Baby Boomers, by virtue of their sixties mentality, remain to this day the most narcissistic and risible group of navel-contemplating ninnies in living memory. I'll include myself out of that if you don't mind, thank you very much. You may not like the "Jones" moniker, but you can't refute the logic behind it with any credibility.

[dalereed]

His parents should be fined the 200k that his "education" cost for not aborting him!

[Jet Jaguar]

I hope he is a really, really good artist.

He will have a herd time landing a traditional job.

[Jet Jaguar]

herd=hard

[kittymyrib]

Jet jockeys should not be confused with warriors. You would never read a whining, girlie-man note like this from a Marine.

[sodpoodle]

I felt the letter authored by Lt. Mark "?" evidenced a narcissistic personality and cowardice, in no particular order.

Hence my comment cissy and sissy were "interchangeable"

I love semantics;)
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[Al Simmons]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

COULDN'T AGREE MORE!

The weenie side of many (not all) AF types made me often regret not having gone into the Army or the Navy (I am not so arrogant as to think that I could have made it through Marine Basic - maybe at 18-20, but not at 31 when I went into AF JAG.)

Still, I spent all of 1996 attached at the hip to an Army 2-star theater commander as his interpreter (and about a million other things!) in Bosnia (totally unrelated to my JAG duties, but related to the fact that I was the #1 Serbo-Croat linguist in the AF at the time - a sideline owing to my having been born there - and the Army was woefully short in that category, so....they 'borrowed me'.) Going out on other 'special missions' in the dead of winter, dodging landmines and eyeing the locals warily gave me an entirely new perspective - and fulfilled the real reason I wanted to seve in uniform. After that year AF JAG got pretty boring and I got out after the 'Toons illegal war on Serbia (personal and family conflict (as well as legal) with that policy as you may imagine).>

[Al Simmons]