I'm not kidding people. I want to go, we want to go. I'd sign a waver, I don't care. If they need troops I can still do the job. I'm a good doc, and I always have been, and I can still be a good Ranger.
I get so sick of these assholes making armchair general decisions in some newsroom. I've been there, I've done it! Let's get this thing over with....NOW, before the politicians cluster f*#k this thing into a defeat (just like the Nam)!
Sir, I volunteer Sir!
LOL, I don't know you very well but I'd be happy to reup with you on a buddy deal for the over 50 crowd. I still have skills, I can still shoot and I haven't had a peep out of my circumflex since they stented it ten years ago.
I'm surprised that they wouldn't take you with a medical degree-I saw several stories about a 70-something year old doc that was activated off the retired list. He did his 90 day reserve doctor rotation then went home. We have a serious shortage of docs in the guard and reserves.
Call Me...
I spent 10 years training for a war that didn't happen until I was tagged for separation in 1991 under the RIF.
The first gulf war was just getting underway and I stuck my paw in the air and said "send me".... but I was assigned to a SAR unit and deemed critical to the current mission. All of my training and desire for combat was seemingly subsumed as Operation Desert Storm was relegated to the back pages of effective warfare. The effort by US forces was halted at the Iraq border, and the result was, well...
I will fight now when it comes to our doorstep, cuz the Marines won't put me in Uniform again (I'm 43).
But when the time comes, this Marine will not only make his presence known to the enemy, I will train all those willing souls around me. "Cry Havoc, and unleash the Hounds of War"...
They will know the defender of faith and freedom is their enemy, and their destruction is imminent.
Period
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You're my hero.
Heh, I've never met you, but I'd love to buy you a beer! Have no fear, the guys 20-30 I've worked with have the same fire and spirit you do, but are more than a bit shackled by ROE now. I hope that changes soon.
On a similar note, one of our Flight Surgeons is 55, and we just retired a guy at 57 who flew F16s until 2005! Old don't mean soft, it means "seen lots of young welps get whupped!"
I got one eye, high blood pressure, and some. But I can still shoot, drive, fix electronics equipment, and look at women! Not bad for a retired electrical engineer!
I rather be shot by a jealous husband at the age of 106!
I'm 31 years old, spent 8 years on active duty in the USAF and just got back yesterday from the MEPS to go into the ANG. I was told I cannot join right now because my heart rate is a bit high. Blood pressure is fine, but my pulse is high.
They need bodies, I'm prior service, only 31, fully trained, ready to go, but because my pulse was fast I have to wait until I can get my heart rate/pulse to slow down a bit (exercise, no caffeine, no nicotine).
To be honest, and I say this with all due respect, if they need people, but keep blocking them for stupid reasons (such as mine) then I have no sympathy.
I still wish to serve, but I'll not empathize with the manning troubles they cry about whilst they reject people over little things.