From: Ed (mojoedd@bellsouth.net)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 04:35:05 PST
Well said Floyd, VERY well said indeed! R. Lee is a personal Hero to me. I
hope to meet him one day and shake his hand. He is a fine man who took what
he knew and turned it into a great career. The movie Full Metal Jacket has
about the best Boot camp in any movie. There is one more, The Boys in
Company C, that is really great! The PR DI was so real that I kept wanting
to "drop and give him 50" during that whole Basic part of the movie! Good
reference on Starship Troopers! I only wish that all Veterans would get
together and vote as a block. This country would be a lot better off. I
also would love to see the draft come back but EQUAL ACROSS THE BOARD! No
free passes for rich kids. We need to be like Israel in that respect, when
you hit 18 you do two years in the service. If you can't kill then there
are PLENTY of jobs where you don't have to. As someone said there were
about 7 or 8 guys in the rear for every one of us in the field. I loved
those guys! Without them no bullets and no beans! They are also heroes and
deserve the same recognition that Grunts do!
Of course as each generation of Troops go through Basic or Boot the previous
generation always says that "we" had it a lot harder. I went through Basic
in 1967 and I know that it was a LOT HARDER than what's given out now. When
Troops and Marines have a little blue card that they can hold up when they
feel stressed out by the DIs it's getting a little too PC for this old
Grunt! Don't know if the blue card is still in effect but it was in 1997
when a good friend's Son went through Marine Boot!! My Dad is rolling over
in his grave! He was a Mustang Officer in the Corps and went from WWII
through three tours of Vietnam, retired as a full Colonel and died in 1994.
Well, enough soap boxing for me. Take care Floyd, thanks for your service!
Best Regards,
Ed
"Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see
to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Floyd Petri" <fpetri@eastex.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 02:00
Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
> Everette normally I would not say anything at all about this. However,
your
> last paragraph leads me to believe that I should ask this question. Have
you
> ever been in the military and if so what branch? I don't know you and I
have
> never met you or remember anyone discussing you so I really don't know the
> answer to the question.
>
> However, if the answer is yes then that generates another question. How
did
> you ever slip threw the crack and not get torn all the way down from a
> civilian slimeball and then built up again as a mean lean fighting
machine?
> Have the Political Influence stamp on your 201 file? Or maybe you missed
> being torn down and are still a slimeball???
>
> However, if the answer is no then all of us veterans now know and owning
or
> having an interest in military vehicles does not make you a veteran or
makes
> you know and understand that "slimeball" in the military is a form of
> affection between a Drill Instructor and his/her trainee. Magget is
another
> one. Or whatever???
>
> Now I don't have my flame shields up because I am retired military and I
> like the abuse. "More PT Sergeant". So I will answer your last paragraph
> with this:
>
> Ever see the movie "Star Ship Troopers"? I believe I would vote yes to
have
> their system. You must join the military to become a citizen and get the
> right to vote. NO MILITARY and you are not SHI-. Not a citizen and you
can't
> vote. If all the veterans would get together and vote as a block we could
> solve all our problems because there are that many of us and we could get
> anything that we wanted. So how in the world can you let the atheist and
> communist and "unmentionables" allow movies that use the MF and F words
> every other word and you only are offended by "Slimeball"? There
definately
> is something wrong in America or soon to be Amerika.
>
> That being said Hanoi Jane is a traitor and should be tried as one instead
> of being voted Woman of the Year. I could go on and on, but what does that
> have to do with military vehicles? Waiting for your answer to the
question.
>
> Floyd
> Retired U.S. Army
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