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To: RandFan

Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have been bitching about those topics for forever. Comic strips, movies, songs, poems, and now socials. Nothing new here other than the media they use to air their gripes. We had a kid who refused to stop bitching after he got to the ship. This was in 1992. Bitch, bitch, bitch, is all he did. One night the Master at Arms showed up in the berthing and roused that kid up out of his rack, made him pack everything up and they left. I heard later he was driven to the bus station and given a ticket to his home of record. He was booted for “Failure to Adapt to Military Service” which was a thing for folks in service less than 90 days. Might have been 180 days. Not sure if it is still a thing or not.


151 posted on 12/18/2023 5:50:23 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Mathews

I’m way past military service age by now, but even if I weren’t I wouldn’t join up these days. No leadership at the top by what I’m seeing, & the lower ranks seem to be a bunch of misfits as well. Looks like a pretty sure setup to lose a war.


152 posted on 12/18/2023 6:06:34 AM PST by oldtech
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To: Mathews
Sailors of the past, even in that casual pose it looks like a bar fight is next on the agenda.


153 posted on 12/18/2023 6:16:05 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Mathews
We had a kid who refused to stop bitching after he got to the ship. This was in 1992.

Illustrates one of the advantages of an all-volunteer force: You can tell a whiny birdbrain like that "STFU. You're here because you chose to be here." He didn't STFU, so he got the boot. Can't do that with draftees.

158 posted on 12/18/2023 9:52:37 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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