Selective Service.. heh guys-don't forget to register..
mike....@gmail.com
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Before you do (or don't)- here's a true story:
I just read a message on an internet message board by a woman who said
her husband is in the U.S. Army in Iraq and , she said - "He fills
holes in roads left there by I.E.D.s" (improvised exploding devices)
Can you believe this!? Her husband is risking his life in a war zone,
filling holes with dirt !!
Are Iraqi civilians so stupid and lazy that they can't fill holes in
their own roads with dirt ?! If so-SCREW IRAQIS !! Is the U.S.
military so stupid and incompetent that they can't train Iraqis to
fill holes with dirt ?! If so,SCREW THE U.S. MILITARY !!
Since the military can't train foreigners "FOR CRAP"-, wouldn't it be
cheaper to fly ONE Iraqi civilian over here and have one non-military
civilian sandbag expert train him to fill sandbags over HERE for one
day? (where both are less likely to die). Then, that Iraqi can go
home and train his own people.. I'll bet it would be cheaper. How much
do you think it would cost to send ONE troop over there for a year to
train Iraqis to fill sandbags? How much of YOUR TAXES is being wasted
by sending that woman's husband over there to "do for the Iraqis,
things they should be doing for themselves"?
If American troops are risking their lives filling sandbags, imagine
all the other bullcrap they are risking their lives doing! Any Iraq
vets want to fill us in?
I just wanted to let you know (and your parents to know) the insanity
in your country and "your" military.
Registering with Selective Service is your first step into insanity.
Mike
Kenn Smith
If guys are filling sandbags they are most likely protecting bunkers or
gun pits. In areas where you need bunkers and gun pits there aren't a
lot of disintrested civilians around. In those cases local labot might
be cheap but it isn't plentiful. And it probably isn't the best idea in
the world to allow unknown local labor inside your perimiter.
If the lady's husband is indeed filling holes in roads it is most likely
with a blade of some sort. Some of the old artillery rounds used for
IEDs make really, really big holes in the road - not pick and shovel
work in many cases. And you don't normally use sandbags to fill shell
holes - too time consuming and too expensive. Push dirt in it and keep
things moving.
If you're in a convoy or on patrol and are backed up by a hole in the
road the last thing you want to do is sit still for very long. Prime
target time. Going around one isn't a particulary good idea unless the
area is swept for mines or backup IEDs.
As for me, I never registered for the draft. I enlisted when I was 17
and retired when I was 42. I feel that I did some good things in those
years and can die feeling satisfaction that I served my nation
faithfully and well.
mike....@gmail.com
> Mikey, I think you might have your facts slightly askew.
>
Too bad YOUR military (not mine) can't train Iraqis and Aghans to
fill those holes. It's certainly
a lot cheaper to pay them to do it by hand than to have American s do
it with costly machines.
Your statement that "cheap labor is hard to find in Iraq and
Afghanistan is the biggest joke we've ever heard!
The holes I've seen aren't very big and very deep. 10 people could
fill them way before one of your road machines gets there!
Kenn Smith
And I'm proud of my service. Without us over the years you could well
be living and entirely different life style.
I can only assume that you are too biased, or too dense, to fully
appreciate my comments about sand bags, bunkers and gun pits. To
simplify for you, when you're engaged in that sort of activity it means
that there is a very good chance that you're going to be looking at
incoming gunfire in the forsseable future. The local disinterested
populace knows that too so what do they do? Get the hell out of Dodge!
So while they might work cheap (by our standards) there aren't a lot
left around to employ. Even if there were sufficient how comfortable
would you be having 15 or 20 unknown and unvetted individuals wandering
around inside the wire?
kn_carr...@webtv.net
MOUTH.
Kenn Smith
US military can I safely assume that you are not a US citizen?