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KAGS

I did take the oath, several times. I served 27 months in combat killing real commies. I than spent 14 years serving in the cold war, then another 5 years training post 9/11 warriors.

You and SPecialQueeR need to describe your service before flapping your labia about what others have done and how they did it. Have you ever actually put it on the line for any of your grievously eroded rights?

Maybe it it is time for you guys to act rather than moan on the net.


mike r

,...doesn't pass the smell test.

One of the great things about the internet is that the booger eaters can say things that they would never say to a person's face.


mike r

Criscoe can't smell and has frequently demoed that he has no taste. Could it be the covid? The Israelis are carpet bombing the bluegrass w/ the chinese clap.

Pears sent



mike r

,...and people can claim to have served "14 years in the cold war".

What'd you do,.....fly the SR-71?

I mean,..it just seems odd to me that you've gone from what you claim to have been to a puckered up old man sucking on a lemon in the desert while insulting people on the internet.

What seems "odd to you" is more of a statement about your personal life than mine. Many have done more than I and that apparently chaps your homespun overalls. If you wasted your life in a factory you have no one to blame but yourself.

Suck it up.


mike r

Snappy comeback.

I've only had to shave twice.

Germanicus Julius Caesar (under Tiberius)
stemmed a revolt by legions west of the Rhine,
and successfully redirected their energies by
taking them on campaigns across the Rhine.

But it was the reverse with Julius Caesar and his
personal ambition expansion campaigns in Gaul,..
He became hugely wealthy and empowered by his
great war success and loyalty of his legions
resulting in him plunging into civil war when
daring to cross the Rubicon with his returning
army...a big No No according to the Roman
Senate.. And thus the First Triumvirate alliance
no longer stood with Caesar now pitted against
Pompey and his legions.

Just my opinion but to sustain an US Army in the field with rotations every 12 months takes 44 combat bridges.

Some time around 2015 the Army cut back to 33 Combat Bridges because of cost. I was in the Army 27 years,

No one I knew wanted a draft Army. Plus they have about 12 Combat brigades in the National Guard an Reserve.

Most of the Army units are in need of a rest and refit. The National Guard needs the same equipment as the Regular Army.

I do not believe Biden or anyone else wants a war anytime soon. The only time you should need a Draft is if it is a world war.

One more thing the Democrats want to built up the USA, not spend all the money fighting a war in some far away country.

It makes no since.

When businesses fold because if high taxation. They will regret it but i bet the boarder will be open again so they can easily get their fix.

Cant be any worse than your other leaders fellas. I followd you into several conflicts. Wouldnt bother us if you won one occasionally. British led wars were usuallly neatly tied off in a few years, even the ones they lost in the colonies.

US wars cant even get a result against 3rd world backwaters any more. They either boot us all out, their country splits, you leave the dictator in charge and we have to re-invade again, or we sneak off after 20 years hoping the public forgets what it is all about.

The last fiasco I served in, in Afghanistan, the first ten years the Taliban were considered illegal non combatants. They were then upgraded to being legitimate political entities. Without the usual interim of being 'actual legal soldiers'. lmao.

You have to laugh at that. Like a guy going to prison for rape getting a job as the principal of an all girls school. lmao.

What your missing is the military industrial complex. The only bi partison thing congress did in the last 4 years was keep troops in Afghanistan. We have 8000 troops there right now and 5000 in Iraq. Neither one have any sort of a mission statement or end goal. I listened to a retired Special Forces officer who was also a CIA operative in Iraq. 8.5 years total in both countries talk about it. He said the money thrown away is insane and they have to spend it to keep it coming. He said for a goof when he was CIA they put in a requisition for a $32,000 Italian coffee maker and 2 months later it showed up. he said they had a literal fleet of uparmored Mercedes at $500-700k a piece that were useless because they made you a target. He was saying they just kept showing up and they were never used. mattis quit because Trump refused to put troops in Syria. You imagine the billions we would be spending on that mess. Make no mistake these 20 year wars have made a lot of people and a lot of politicians extremely wealthy. Mattis wanted to start a full scale third war. You notice in the last election NOBODY said $ hit about the wars. Whens the last news story you've heard about the special forces operations in Iraq or the troops in Afghanistan?

Am I the only person the finds old men fights funny?

Maybe. Ask yourself a question. Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

HC

I read someplace that total cost per active military member for US taxpayer is over $500000 per year, Britain >$300000, PRC >200000, Russia >50000. How do you envision larger US Military w/o major armed world conflict? Today leadership of intelligently run countries solve their problems w/o using military (China vs. India, for example). Why have huge military with nothing for them to do? I suspect the only reason they keep funding that endeavor is they do not know what to do with people in the military if the size and funding was cut substantially. Making military force larger makes no logical or financial sense.

The simple answer is NO.

The US already has a solution to this problem where it allows foreigners to become citizens through serving in the US military.