Thank You to All Vets Who Served

[donbb]

4 minutes ago, TakeYouToTasker said:

 

That's because you're a coward.

 

Keep running away, coward.

 

This is a thank you thread for those who served in the military. Please take your hateful rhetoric for our troops to a different thread.

[The_Dude]

Just now, donbb said:

 

This is a thank you thread for those who served in the military. Please take your hateful rhetoric for our troops to a different thread.

 

It's alright, bud. He'll get tired and all tuckered out in a bit. Just ignore him. That's what I'm gonna do. He just wants/craves attention -- don't give it to him. 

[Paulus]

1 minute ago, donbb said:

 

This is a thank you thread for those who served in the military. Please take your hateful rhetoric for our troops to a different thread.

I think the whole "thank you" idea is stupid.

 

Am I the only one?

[The_Dude]

Just now, Paulus said:

I think the whole "thank you" idea is stupid.

 

Am I the only one?

 

....idk. I was a recruiter right before I got out. People would try to by my groceries and stuff if I stopped by the store on my way to my house. People who I could tell I made WAAAAAAY more than. I think they thought soldiers were poor (not even close). Do I feel people need to thank me? No. I got paid, and I got the GI Bill, and at the end of the day, no matter what I did it was never enough to compare to what the guys in WWII did. I don't go to Applebees and get my free annual meal. I refuse to ask for a veterans discount anywhere. But I never get angry over somebody's good intentions. Most of the time they just want to tell you about their family member they're proud of who is in or was in. No big deal. But, I never feel I deserve thanks. Trust me, I milked that GI Bill for every dime -- that was thanks enough. But a friendly conversation aint never hurt nobody. 

 

 

 

Damn I gotta get off this thing or I ain't gonna get my work done. And if I don't get my work done then my customers don't pay their tolls. And if they don't pay their tolls I dont get no rolls. 

[sherpa]

1 hour ago, Boyst62 said:

Thanks to all those who didn't get in to college to serve is right!

 

That excludes me.

By the way, your sentence is very poorly constructed, but the condescension is apparent, nonetheless.  

[TakeYouToTasker]

14 minutes ago, The_Dude said:

 

It's alright, bud. He'll get tired and all tuckered out in a bit. Just ignore him. That's what I'm gonna do. He just wants/craves attention -- don't give it to him. 

 

Not even close.

 

You don't respond because you've been backed into a corner over and over again trying to defend untenable positions, and as always, you take the cowards way out.

 

Whether you're wrapping your poor arguments in the flag, or simply running away, it's always the cowards way out with you.

[MILFHUNTER#518]

36 minutes ago, The_Dude said:

 

I wasn't stationed at BIAP. I was at the Green Zone. FOB Wolfpack, just down the road from 4-heads palace. We got extended in late April after we had all of our **** packed up and ready to go to Kuwait. They then sent us to Biap for less than 2 weeks, then we got to go to Najaf for the whole Mahdi militia thing which was a BLAST. Best time of my life. I hope you got to go to the Babylonian ruins -- those were awesome. I used my knife to carve out a brick inscribed by Neberkenezer and some horrible navy girl took it at Kuwait before I got it home. I was sooo pissed. Also, I didn't feel bad for "stealing" it because odds are some terrorist was just gonna blow it up anyways. 

 

Nope, don't care.

We did,  our outgoing C.O took us there and I was "Volunteered" to be on his security detail. I was pissed, just wanted to stay in the fob and relax. Boy, am I glad I went. Me and my squad got our pic taken right in front of the ruins of the tower of babel. It is on my ETS plaque. Kinda stuff you can tell your grandkids.

[boyst]

18 minutes ago, sherpa said:

 

That excludes me.

By the way, your sentence is very poorly constructed, but the condescension is apparent, nonetheless.  

I truly hope by now that anything I say is not to be taken seriously.

[The_Dude]

44 minutes ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

We did,  our outgoing C.O took us there and I was "Volunteered" to be on his security detail. I was pissed, just wanted to stay in the fob and relax. Boy, am I glad I went. Me and my squad got our pic taken right in front of the ruins of the tower of babel. It is on my ETS plaque. Kinda stuff you can tell your grandkids.

 

It was cool. Frickin' Germans took the real Ishtar wall with them though when they excavated in the '50's. Had I known then what I know now I would have found Ctesiphon (ruins of old Persian capital) which I KNOW I had to have driven by and spray painted SPQR (the senate and people of Rome) on it in crimson or purple for old times sake lol. 

 

I'm glad I got to go to Babylon though. You walked in the ruins where Alexander the Great died. That's very cool. 

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

Boy, am I glad I went. Me and my squad got our pic taken right in front of the ruins of the tower of babel. It is on my ETS plaque. Kinda stuff you can tell your grandkids.

 

Where was that?  Because there wasn't really a "Tower of Babel," but there were several larger Babylonian zigurrats that the story was inspired by.

 

Which is not to doubt your story; just curious which ruins they were.

[outsidethebox]

4 hours ago, DC Tom said:

Thanks for peeling the potatoes the soldiers ate.

And cleaning the shitters

[MILFHUNTER#518]

2 hours ago, DC Tom said:

 

Where was that?  Because there wasn't really a "Tower of Babel," but there were several larger Babylonian zigurrats that the story was inspired by.

 

Which is not to doubt your story; just curious which ruins they were.

They told us it was the ruins of the tower of babel, but maybe perhaps not. We were in the ruins of the old city of Babylon, very cool. It was the old marketplace.

 

I will take a picture of my ETS plaque, the photo of the ruins, and post it as soon as i figure out how to compress the image to post. I apologize in advance for my technical ignorance.

[reddogblitz]

You're welcome.

 

It was an honor.

[outsidethebox]

Even the soldier's in Benghazi? You , the ones left behind to die by Hillary? The same soldiers tibs laughed about?

 

That's why I find it hard to believe any of libs on this board served in the armed forces. 

[Misterbluesky]

6 hours ago, The_Dude said:

 

I was a light scout (hummer) and I did NOT know that about tanks till Iraq (OIF 1 was my first field problem, it was a big one). I was our LTs delta. Pulled up right behind an M1 at BIAP that was sitting there but on. My gunner started kicking me in the head. Whoops. Sowwy. ?

I joined the Corps in 1982...the days before the pusified new "rules" came into place.I never got B word slapped...I got punched.

[reddogblitz]

28 minutes ago, Misterbluesky said:

I joined the Corps in 1982...the days before the pusified new "rules" came into place.I never got B word slapped...I got punched.

 

I joined the USMC in 1976 months after the guy got killed in a pugill stick fight. I never got slapped or punched. I did have the Drill Instructor put his hAnd up around my Adams apple choking me a little for a few seconds once. Never saw anyone get punched (not saying it didn't happen to you).

 

https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/42895

Edited September 6, 2018 by reddogblitz

[Misterbluesky]

14 minutes ago, reddogblitz said:

 

I joined the USMC in 1976 months after the guy got killed in a pugill stick fight. I never got slapped or punched. I did have the Drill Instructor put his hAnd up around my Adams apple choking me a little for a few seconds once. Never saw anyone get punched (not saying it didn't happen to you).

 

https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/broadcasts/42895

Not for one second,one minute should you not believe your D did not know about your asvab  results.I'm assuming you had a damn good gpa in hs as well. I was a rubber stamp,father navy,uncle's Corps...one in 'nam. My high school grades were upper 70's..low 80's on the good years.Basically...I was benchmarked to be that rented mule.

[Gugny]

10 hours ago, westside said:

Even the soldier's in Benghazi? You , the ones left behind to die by Hillary? The same soldiers tibs laughed about?

 

That's why I find it hard to believe any of libs on this board served in the armed forces. 

 

Hi, Westie.  I hope you are well, friend.  I'm a pretty (very) liberal dude and I proudly served four years in the US Navy and am the proud owner of a Joint Meritorious Unit Award (for working with the USCG on anti-drug and gun trafficking), National Defense Medal (for serving during the first Gulf War and protecting the no-fly zone) and a Good Conduct Medal (for not getting caught doing all the stupid **** I did while overseas).

 

Peace, brother! 

Edited September 6, 2018 by Gugny

[BringBackOrton]

32 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

Hi, Westie.  I hope you are well, friend.  I'm pretty a pretty (very) liberal dude and I proudly served four years in the US Navy and am the proud owner of a Joint Meritorious Unit Award (for working with the USCG on anti-drug and gun trafficking), National Defense Medal (for serving during the first Gulf War and protecting the no-fly zone) and a Good Conduct Medal (for not getting caught doing all the stupid **** I did while overseas).

 

Peace, brother! 

Whatever you are, you’re sure not pretty.

[The_Dude]

6 hours ago, DC Tom said:

 

Where was that?  Because there wasn't really a "Tower of Babel," but there were several larger Babylonian zigurrats that the story was inspired by.

 

Which is not to doubt your story; just curious which ruins they were.

 

They were near a place called, Al Hillah. When I was assigned to the green zone with 3/2 ACR in 03-04 there was a KBR compound off the river in a village called Al Hillah. During the  middle portion of my first deployment my job was escort missions. We'd escort Vips around country. The ruins weren't too far from there. The Ishtar Gate that is there is a replica. The Germans took the original when they excavated in the 50's.

2 hours ago, Misterbluesky said:

I joined the Corps in 1982...the days before the pusified new "rules" came into place.I never got B word slapped...I got punched.

 

I was in OSUT in 02. Never got punched, but did get choked out against the wall. God bless my DS!

4 hours ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

They told us it was the ruins of the tower of babel, but maybe perhaps not. We were in the ruins of the old city of Babylon, very cool. It was the old marketplace.

 

I will take a picture of my ETS plaque, the photo of the ruins, and post it as soon as i figure out how to compress the image to post. I apologize in advance for my technical ignorance.

 

I studied history, not archaeology . But I remember this long covered chamber there. They ( a Chaplain guide) told us they didn't know what it was used for. To store ice? A warehouse? I just remember being awe struck that I was standing under a roof so old. Awe struck. And wondering how the !@#$ there was a ever a garden there because while we were close to the river, we were still a drive away.