From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 04:04:31 PDT
I'd have to agree! After 15yrs of marriage and a bad back I'd be meaner
than hell. And at 39 just call me old.....
-----Original Message-----
From: J.Wiehe [mailto:j.wiehe@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 7:09 PM
To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
Subject: [MV] Fw: Old Soldiers
This was passed on to me and it is to good not to
forward. Sorry that there is no vehicle content.
Jim Wiehe VA3JHW
j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
Subject: FW: Old Soldiers
>If I could, I'd enlist today and help my country track down those
>responsible for killing thousands of innocent people in New York City
>and
>Washington, D.C. But, I'm over 70 now and the Armed Forces say I'm too
>old
>to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 35 to join the
>military.
>They've got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year-olds
>off
>to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join
>until you're at least 35. For starters:
>
>Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys
only
>think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000
>additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy. Young guys
>haven't
>lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous
soldier.
>If we can't kill the enemy we'll complain them into submission. "My
>back
>hurts!" "I'm hungry!" "Where's the remote control?"
>
>An 18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war
until
>you're at least old enough to legally drink. An average old guy, on the
>other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer by the time he's 35
>and a
>jaunt through the desert heat with a backpack and M-60 would do wonders
>for
>the old beer belly.
>
>An 18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys get up
>early
>(to pee). If old guys are captured we couldn't spill the beans because
>we'd
>probably forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial
>number
>would be a real brainteaser.
>
>Boot camp would actually be easier for old guys. We're used to getting
>screamed and yelled at and we actually like soft food. We've also
>developed
>a deep appreciation for guns and rifles. We like them almost better
>than
>naps. They could lighten up on the obstacle course, however. I've been
>in
>combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the
>side
>, nor did I ever do any pushups after training. I can hear the Drill
>Sergeant now, "Get down and give me...er...one." And the running part
>is
>kind of a waste of energy. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
>
>An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to
>shave. To actually carry on a conversation. To wear pants without the
>top
of
>the butt crack showing and the boxer shorts sticking out. To learn that
>a
>pierced tongue catches food particles. And that a 200-watt speaker in
>the
>back seat of a Honda Accord can rupture an eardrum. All great reasons
>to
>keep our sons at home and to learn a little more about life before
>sending
>them off to a possible death.
>
>Let us old guys track down those dirty, rotten cowards..
>The last thing the enemy would want to see right now
>is a couple of million old farts with attitudes.
>
>Author Unknown
>
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