I doubt any toothless, redneck hillbillies with the Stars and Bars waving in their front pasture who live over 7 miles from the nearest tower are even on her "B" list, dude. :D

The pasture two miles east of this sign?

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I've got a mouse in my hand and am not afraid to use it. :lifter



Politicians declare wars, soldiers fight them.

...when I've got a nearly empty bottle of Evan Williams in the other. :lifter

There, I finished your post for you. :D

I realize I'm joining this conversation a little late but . . .
WHEN EXACTLY, did I sign over ANY of my rights?
I thought when I raised my hand I accepted the honor of dying for OUR rights. Well I did swear to defend the Constitution. I didn't say anything about "except for me."

In my civilian job I could post what a this or that my boss is (not that he is . . . he's an overflowing cup filled with with the creame of human dignity, he's CPT Lincoln Stern) but if I did he would be well within his rights to let me go. (maybe, not out an airlock but. . . ) That was the best part of a great movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHgMsvpFm08

Obeying Orders????
 

The Marine weather forecaster not obeying orders is the least of our worries. Let's imagine the programers who wrote the code for the STUXNEX virus want to write a code to launch nuclear missles or write a code to overide a launch sequence....This type of info tech coding has been around for 10-12 years. Now it's out there in the public domain...Let's just worry about the Marine weather forecaster and the Air Force Sgt. who posed for Playboy Magazine. The important stuff....TK

Case getting more attention...
 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-05-17-14-19



CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A military board has recommended dismissal for a Marine sergeant who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page, including allegedly putting the president's face on a "Jackass" movie poster.

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Er...Spotted Hyena, the Brown one is quite innocuous, doent have that cackling laugh and is quite shy and mostly nocturnal.

Respect
 

As an active duty Soldier, I have to respect the office. It does not matter what I think about the individual man.

Look at it this way, ever have a 1SG or a CSM that you thought didn't deserve the job? Of course you did.....we all have. What would happen if you showed that 1SG or CSM disrespect? He would smoke the living shit out of you, and you would deserve it.

You may not respect me but, you WILL respect my rank.

If this Marine gets the book thrown at him, he only has himself to blame.

Anyone remember the Clinton years? Fort Bragg was a ghost town. They were offering a 20 year retirement at 15. They were throwing people out left and right. Those times are going to return. With all the budget cuts that we are about to face, staying in is going to be a hard task.
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'til the next Republican POTUS.

Two views from the American Gilded Age
 

In 1874, General W.T. Sherman offered his view of professional soldiers getting involved in politics in a letter to his brother, John. In 1898, General John Schofeld used his memoirs to make clear his view on civil military relations.MOO, in the years to come, the American professions of arms would do well to consider Sherman's and Schofeld's views, regardless of who is president or which political party has the upper hand.

My $0.02. YMMV.

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* W.T. Sherman to John Sherman, 28 August 1874 as printed in Rachel Sherman Thorndike, ed., The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General Sherman and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, The American Scene: Comments and Commentators (A Da Capo Press Reprint Series), Wallace D. Farnham, general editor (New York: Da Capo Press, 1969), 340.
** John M. Schofield, Forty-Six Years in the Army (New York: The Century Company, 1898), 420-421.

IF the president doesn't get re-elected. Thats a big IF. The American people need to wake up and see what is happening to this county.

If PBO puts on the type of campaign he did last election, he will get re-elected.

Let's face it, none of the republican candidates are stellar. I wish they weren't so McCain like.
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Bro, I really don't think he will get re-elected, as long as it's fair. There's your big "if".

Agree.
 

When in uniform shut mouth about politics. I recall CCS late 68 ,it may have still been Omega in late 68, and a number of us had absentee ballots. None of us cared about anything except more bombs. That is why we voted for Lemay and Wallace.


Wallace was not our hero. We just needed bombs and especially TAC AIR of any kind on our Daniel Boone OPS.