Oh now I come back, and this thread went to total shit.
Jesus Shitballs.
an elevenpog thread where he craps on everyone who didn't make the same life choices as him, AND half the people who did make the same life choices as him.
what could possibly go wrong?
We expect better from an Elvenpog thread.
I wish I had re-enlisted and went lifer these days.
*shrug*
Dude, its a career. . No one thanks me for what i do for no reason.I talked with a recruiter prior to graduating high school which would have put me a few years before the first Gulf War. Thyroid disease kept me out. I am forever grateful to all who serve or have served: THANK YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES!
Dude, its a career. . No one thanks me for what i do for no reason.
Dude, its a career. . No one thanks me for what i do for no reason.
That's OK. Us men will always protect you women folk.I had better options.
No it's not just a career it's the choice to defend the ones you love the american way and shitheads like you who can't appreciate it.
you sound like you'd make a terrible soldier.
I'm prior service, and you sound ridiculous.No it's not just a career it's the choice to defend the ones you love the american way and shitheads like you who can't appreciate it.
No it's not just a career it's the choice to defend the ones you love the american way and shitheads like you who can't appreciate it.
I work on engineering highly complex military devices. No one has once thanked me in 16 years
I work on engineering highly complex military devices. No one has once thanked me in 16 years for providing high quality devices that "protect you" while not having faults that might kill soldiers inadvertently.
And if you think these people chose their careers because they had options like going to Wall Street or being a physicist, you are wrong. The truth has more to do with financial need and recruiters targeting those with limited economic options.
Anecdotally:
I live in a town of wealth today. I have not seen a single recruiter in the 10+ years I have lived here. I haven't even seen someone in military dress in a 15 mile radius since I have lived here. The local town fairs have ZERO recruiters there. ZERO. How's that compare to your neighborhood? I grew up in a poor area in the country and there was a recruitment center and I was even approached while working a summer job.
Do not confuse my appreciation for what everyone does in this country. We are all parts of a system that provides a good life. I just don't blindly assign prestige to certain careers. I assign prestige to people that are not ass holes. And do not confuse what the word choice means. It means you have other options.
Lol I'm older than you son. Awesome.yeah, that is ridiculous. I'm 37 (1979), so now I went from being "gen X" most of my life from 1990 on, to now practically being "a millenial," which was really only coined and defined in the last couple of years? Sorry, no.
There is no way to group my generation along the same lines as one that was completely raised in an internet/cell phone/social media world. I didn't really get on the internet until after high school (but I was certainly a slow starter there). Primarily because of that, I never saw and still see no practical or logical need for a Facebook account--also never had Myspace.
My generation are the ungrateful spoiled angtsy shithead children of the Baby Boomers.
Millenials are the spoiled, self-important, irresponsible dillhole children of my generation and the baby-boomer/gen X overlap generation.
I doubt that moving of the generation lines by several decades for millenials. It makes no sense. To me, millenials are the little shits that experienced their formative years (learning how to interact with humans--so ~4th grade and beyond) from 2000+, essentially primarily online and post-9/11.
Lol I'm older than you son. Awesome.
Angsty? Where are you getting this from, the grunge era was angsty. To have angst you have to give a shit first. I would label our generation as the Do Not give a shit generation. We didn't really grow up with computers so we don't care as much about them. Same with cell phones. Although, I did have a myspace page.
No it's not just a career it's the choice to defend the ones you love the american way and shitheads like you who can't appreciate it.
No it's not just a career it's the choice to defend the ones you love the american way and shitheads like you who can't appreciate it.
Korea. We in fact had obligations to protect South Korea in case of aggression by the Commies to the North. We fulfilled our promises on that, which was on the level and honorable.Since WW2 we have not fought one war that's worth fighting.
Lol I'm older than you son. Awesome.
Angsty? Where are you getting this from, the grunge era was angsty. To have angst you have to give a shit first. I would label our generation as the Do Not give a shit generation. We didn't really grow up with computers so we don't care as much about them. Same with cell phones. Although, I did have a myspace page.