No, I am not thankful for your service. Sorry.

[MiamiHeat]

OP - this thread is idiotic.

[Drachen]

lil'mo's chick must have ed a sailor on a carnival cruise ship

it was a bartender.

[jaffies]

AFBlue

I always assumed 'AF' stood for Air Force.
Is this correct?

[Blake]

It is your Job that You signed up for.
You are getting Paid to do Your job.

I don't care if you put your life on the line. You put yourself in that position either because you were too stupid to get a real job or too lazy.

Do your job and stop expecting some great level of respect for doing grunt work that someone else would do if you weren't there to do it.

Just curious if you think policemen or firefighters were too stupid or too lazy to get real jobs as well.

[lil'mo]

They've never asked for or expected any thanks from self-important little monsters such as yourself, and you show show an appallingly huge ego in thinking that they want or need your thanks to continue to do what they do.

It's not that they want it or need it (maybe they do), but it's as if they expect it. Like they truly believe they've earned respect and admiration because they've completed basic training or wear a uniform or some or because their co's and recruiters tell them they've earned respect. It's a recruiting tool, used for recruiting tools.

[lil'mo]

As for this, it shows an equally appalling ignorance on your part.

We all know damn well that "serving my country" is very often a smokescreen for the 10s of 1000s of poor people who join the armed forces when they can't find jobs in a bad economy. iow, a bad economy is a great military recruiting tool, as the military understands very well.

I haven't read ANY complaints by about military recruiters not meeting their goals since the economy went to and unemployment soared a couple years ago.

I'm sure there were plenty of bona fide patriots who joined after 9/11, but then the lying Repugs sent them to the wrong damn country.

And given how bad are the decisions by politicians to go to war, and how badly they've mismanaged Viet Nam (Tonkin Gulf was a lie), Afghanistan, then absolutely, criminally lied their way into Iraq (read the UK enquiry into the Iraq run-up, if you have any doubts), I figure you have to be really desperate to join the Army or Marines now and yield your life/limbs/mind to these political assholes to screw up and waste, then get abandoned to oceans of red-tape and delays when trying to medical treatment post-service.

The guys who really needed sympathy but got nothing but abuse from Americans were the conscripted VN vets. I've never understood why people blamed these poor suckers for VN.

[lil'mo]

Your opening post in this thread called service members lazy idiots.

What about that statement is not disrespectful?

I said they were either stupid OR lazy... if you're a combination of both then that's your own problem.

[lil'mo]

OP - this thread is idiotic.

Hardly.

[timvp]

Whatever happened to posting controversial threads under one's real screen name? That used to be a cool thing to do back in the olden days of 2008 A.D.

It's a recruiting tool, used for recruiting tools.

That said, that was quality wordsmithing.

[AFBlue]

I said they were either stupid OR lazy... if you're a combination of both then that's your own problem.

As if the two treated seperately change the outcome?

Calling someone stupid OR lazy isn't exactly a sign of respect. You can work whatever angle you want (it's all semantics), but you still contradict yourself within the span of 5 posts.

[AFBlue]

AFBlue

I always assumed 'AF' stood for Air Force.
Is this correct?

Yessir.

[AFBlue]

It's not that they want it or need it (maybe they do), but it's as if they expect it. Like they truly believe they've earned respect and admiration because they've completed basic training or wear a uniform or some or because their co's and recruiters tell them they've earned respect. It's a recruiting tool, used for recruiting tools.

Why do you insist on stereotyping an entire group of people?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I know probably 100 times the number of military you do, and I can say with confidence that almost all of them are unassuming.

I'd like to know just how many soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines you've met that gave you this overwhelming notion we're respect-craving attention s?

[ShoogarBear]

Whatever happened to posting controversial threads under one's real screen name? That used to be a cool thing to do back in the olden days of 2008 A.D.

lol at a coward calling other people stupid and lazy.

[lil'mo]

Just curious if you think policemen or firefighters were too stupid or too lazy to get real jobs as well.

It's a little harder to get into police academy or fire school, and if you are one of the few smart ones you'll be promptly promoted, and set aside from the rest. In the military you have all of these guys retiring after 4-year commitments as pfc's! and even if you do get promoted once or twice in the military it's no more than saying you were among the smarter of the dumb persons in a population.

[lil'mo]

Whatever happened to posting controversial threads under one's real screen name? That used to be a cool thing to do back in the olden days of 2008 A.D.



That said, that was quality wordsmithing.

This is my real screen name! What are you talkin about sucka!

[lil'mo]

As if the two treated seperately change the outcome?

Calling someone stupid OR lazy isn't exactly a sign of respect. You can work whatever angle you want (it's all semantics), but you still contradict yourself within the span of 5 posts.

Quote my contradiction.

[DMX7]

I support veterans of real wars, like ww2 and vietnam

What about Afghanistan??? And the guys like Pat Tillman who turned down millinos of dollars to fight the real bad guys in Afghanistan, they guys actually responsible for 9/11.

[lil'mo]

Why do you insist on stereotyping an entire group of people?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I know probably 100 times the number of military you do, and I can say with confidence that almost all of them are unassuming.

I'd like to know just how many soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines you've met that gave you this overwhelming notion we're respect-craving attention s?

It's not one particular individual as it is society as a whole thinks we should feel this way. I'm not gonna sit here and say "Frank, my neighbor down the street who was in the army says....."

No, no, it more has to do with all of these military appreciation nights and wear your uniforms and get a free grand-slam breakfast, or some bull .

[lil'mo]

lol at a coward calling other people stupid and lazy.

Good one!

[Dr. Gonzo]

I know many people that joined the service to avoid taking care of their kids. I support deadbeat dads.

[lil'mo]

What about Afghanistan??? And the guys like Pat Tillman who turned down millinos of dollars to fight the real bad guys in Afghanistan, they guys actually responsible for 9/11.

Yeah, you know what happened to a true AMerican Patriot like Pat Tillman? Shot by "friendly fire" morons that I'm talking about in this thread.

Thank you for making my point.

[AFBlue]

Quote my contradiction.

Okay...

It is your Job that You signed up for.
You are getting Paid to do Your job.

I don't care if you put your life on the line. You put yourself in that position either because you were too stupid to get a real job or too lazy.

Do your job and stop expecting some great level of respect for doing grunt work that someone else would do if you weren't there to do it.

Then...

That's cool, I don't disrespect or troops but I don't respect them any more than I respect anyone else who does their job.

Then you followed with this nugget...

It's a little harder to get into police academy or fire school, and if you are one of the few smart ones you'll be promptly promoted, and set aside from the rest. In the military you have all of these guys retiring after 4-year commitments as pfc's! and even if you do get promoted once or twice in the military it's no more than saying you were among the smarter of the dumb persons in a population.

[DMX7]

Yeah, you know what happened to a true AMerican Patriot like Pat Tillman? Shot by "friendly fire" morons that I'm talking about in this thread.

Thank you for making my point.

I know that. But it doesn't make your point.

You've conveniently disregarded the purpose of my statement which is to prove that you should be thankful that some people are motivated by righteous purposes, not just money or because they can't get a job anywhere else.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

I'm not one who gets along with this poster but +1 on the thread. People who think voluntarily serving in the army deserves some special privileges in society are morons. You enlisted to go occupy a country that was never a threat to the US, don't come back and expect me to slob your knob, and especially don't come back acting like you have some expert opinion on all the good you were brain washed into thinking this war does.

[AFBlue]

It's not one particular individual as it is society as a whole thinks we should feel this way. I'm not gonna sit here and say "Frank, my neighbor down the street who was in the army says....."

No, no, it more has to do with all of these military appreciation nights and wear your uniforms and get a free grand-slam breakfast, or some bull .

So it seems your problem is more with the people who organize events of appreciation and not the military members that are actually recognized.

Again, I don't know ANY military member that expects some higher level of respect and gra ude from you or anyone...but if someone or some organization chooses to be unlike you and recognize military, then why should military members not accept it?

If you want to expose some double-standard, then I suggest doing so by addressing the people or organizations that set the standard...not taking it out on largely unassuming military members who really don't ask for the praise in the first place.