basically,yes, fokker. unless they're infantry, as bw was, then they don't know what they're really talking about. there's thousands of jobs in the military, they're not all the same. and when cooks and pilots and admin get deployed, they don't usually 'serve' anything like infantry serve, who go out on patrols, risk ied and sniper fire every step. and the word of bw, who's been thru infantry  training, vs. that of a pilot, who knows about as much about infantry and combat as you do from the movies...i'm gonna take bw's every time.

deci, been laid recently?

you'll also notice that dear senile blackwing included patrolling in a noncombat area in a country whose population is friendly as hot combat. if walking around with a gun is what blackie thinks is hot combat, i wouldn't put much weight on his words either. with comments like he has just made, i doubt he has ever been in frontline.

> Elysian Thebes wrote:

> basically,yes, fokker. unless they're infantry, as bw was, then they don't know what they're really talking about. there's thousands of jobs in the military, they're not all the same. and when cooks and pilots and admin get deployed, they don't usually 'serve' anything like infantry serve, who go out on patrols, risk ied and sniper fire every step. and the word of bw, who's been thru infantry  training, vs. that of a pilot, who knows about as much about infantry and combat as you do from the movies...i'm gonna take bw's every time.<

"and the word of bw, who's been thru infantry  training, vs. that of a pilot,"

What is this fixation you people have with the pilot? Haven't you noticed my inistence on re-directing your attentions, quite correctly I feel, to the two soldiers serving in Iraq? Or is that part just inconvenient?

There are only so many ways I can say it, and I have said it in almost every way I can think of:

Blackwing would have been right when he was serving, but not now. Things change, as my two friends currently serving in Iraq, tell me.

I wonder if you took all the vets on the IC forums, from all the countries, and put them all into some global military force, would anybody last a week as CO before getting fragged?

probably a trick question with JA on the team...

fokker, get yr arse on msn or lemme know hwat fam yr in ;p

@EmperorHez
first, Homosexuality is just as common in the military as in the public.  the notion of this "steriotype" of gay sailors and such is just the product of an ongoing joke and harrassment as a result from the band "The Villiage People".  Even if a homosexual was on active duty, there are rules that make him/her keep thier sexual preferences to themselves, this prevents the "macho" guys from kicking thier asses!  this is called the "dont ask, dont tell" policy.

second, though there may be men that feel uncomfortable when under command of a woman, this is not a problem for most.  Statistics have shown more that 2/3rds of the U.S. DOD trust a female officer than a man for various reasons such as; Male officers are more harder to deal with when mistakes are made, Female officers tend to allow time off for family situations easier than men, and overall environment is more relaxed than that of a male leader.

[I love man sex]

  Hof/Fulda Gap. Border security patrols.  No friendlies at E. Germany/Czech border in mid-80s.

ROFL.... @ Yell.

@ Ehawk...lol
who is the sexist now ?
And, can you really speak for 2/3rds of the US DOD ??

Come now.

Dont talk like that when I'm in a direct line between you and devildog

@Paul VP...

actually, Im sure there are a hell of a lot more in the coffee shops you hang out in.
Unless you have a port near by ... hmmmm ??

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Seems like Super-Duper, Super-ModMan, Super Nolio is quick to edit out   DUMBASS.....

Your boy friend is quick to run and give you a reach around ??  So you can prance on in a play Super Mod man ??

ROFL.

Dumbass is so offensive ??

Dumbassimus is so offensive ??

That on a forum when the same idiot posts a burning US flag, and for years "Ja is Gay" was an allowable tag to taunt another ?

This from the dumbass who is constantly trolling and harrassing others on this forum. just because ?
From the same dumbass who is a blantant Racist ??

Yet, w/i minutes of a post, and just when the dumbass happens to be online (last two anyway) you jump in and edit.

Geeee, is it such a strech to have

Guess we should have replaced Patton with Betty Grable

(Toots horn) Yoo hoo! Hey boys!
COL: It's hard slogging General!
GEN GRABLE: Who's your XO?
MAJ: I am, Maam!
GEN: Colonel you're fired! Major you pull these guys out of harms way and find them some cold beer and sandwiches!
MAJ: uh
GEN: You got half an hour to turn these frowns upside down or I'll fire YOU! (Rolls off)
MAJ: Colonel, there's 50,000 men on this island would like to **** that bitch...

truth be told, a female holds the record on the old rifle range at parris island. 246 i think.