http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162110,00.html
So I am sitting here at work, which coincidentily is one of two places I am now authorized to be, contemplating how this could have happened. I have decided I don't want to discuss it other than to say yes, I know about it. They whole day I was trying to sleep as helicopters made low passes over my hut, the other place I am allowed to be.
I would rather discuss the tragedy of MRE's or meals ready to eat.
These "meals" are not necessarily bad. In fat in comparison to the cuisine I have been recieving in the mess hall they are a welcome change of pace. However the after affects of eating a meal designed for a soldier that is living in the field are starting to take their toll.
For one, they are approxiamately 5000 calories each. So the two I have had today should b able to hold me over until next week sometime. They also have this nasty habit of binding you up yet they create large amounts of gas in your system. By product no doubt of the large number of carbohydrates in them. This alone would not be an issue. But image 100 people in a building all suffering from the same symptoms? Catastrophe to your olfactory senses.
Enough of that. I won't even go into how we are only allowed to use port-a-johns right now.
Next on the docket: Hadji Mart
This is an open air mrket held at the edge of post when the natives behave. I obviously don't plan to see this again soon so fortunately I was able to attend this past friday. I saw all the finest wares that can be imported from China. Also there were quite a few 1800's era pistols and rifles on sale. But the best part is the large number of DVD's available for purchase at $3 per disc, not per product. I picked up the six disc set of season 1 x-files(only discs 3 and 4 work on my laptop, its possible they will work on another dvd player) and I also go Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Mr and Mrs Smith was not the best movie ever made but for the three dollars I paid to watch someone else watching it in the theatre it was wonderful. I could almost smell the popcorn and I yelled at all the jerks who blocked my view duringsome of the particularly racy scenes. It was actually a very good copy of the film given the way in which it was produced.
So as of right now I can be either at work or at my hut. This is of course for my safety. I need a drink really really really bad. I'll probably be out of here in September but know one knows where I am going from here. My company may find another position for me here or someplace else in the middle east, I will find another job, or walk the unemployment line for a while. Always in motion is the future.
By the way I still love ya'll.
The Great Escape
Leaving on a trip in a couple of hours for a few days and I don't think I'll be near a computer. So if I don't respond to ya right away I am not necessarily dead. If I don't respond by wednesday...
Wait longer.
Wait longer.
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E-bo Obi
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Dude, I feel for ya. I just got a call from my friend who is stationed in germany. He works 14 hour days, and has nothing to do. He's got a good job compared to some. Yet he is going to switch and become a recruiter so he can tell all the 17 yr. old kids his job was the greatest ever, and they can be a hero.
In school I wanted to be a soldier. (be prepared for a rant)
Now that I have seen my friends going through the training, sitting around, injections, getting tortured, and doing everything for "country" I have another way of thinking.
Your country sees you as a piece of meat.
They will send you into the meatgrinder, and want to hear you say "how fast should I run into it?" before you go.
The people in this country? They want to know why their kids are being shipped off. (well dont you know we got attacked?) hmmm.... Our brothers and sisters, our kids, our parents, they are fighting for the government. The government is who pissed off the camel jockey terrorists. The government set up the piss poor foreign economic policies that killed all the jobs here. We started pissing everyone off when we got off our asses to get Germany out of France and save the UK (both are pretty ungrateful) from that we should have gotten right back in our Isolationist groove.
I am watching as my state collapses around me. Why?
Because the industries that drove our economies can't employ people when Wal-Mart, or Home Depot wont buy their goods. Again, Why?
Because there is no tax or tarriff preventing China for selling cheaper products at prices that cant be competed with. Another reason is our wage laws prevent wages being dropped to an affordable level to compete.
There are several factors that go into creating these problems. Most of them go back to GOV'T. how do you fix it? Well, for starters, why did we fight the revolutionary war to stop taxation without representation. We just got the taxers moved from England to a little old place in the "district of Columbia" a little closer. Most of our wages go into taxes, all our lives, whether we benefit or not. They go so some other slob can get supported by "the system" that they didn't even pay into. Then we want to make everybody else in the world happy, so we dont tax their cheap ass products that are rolling in, and throw our own people under the bus. Our Government is in a state of near collapse. It is also overstretching itself to police other countries. Have you been watching currency? The Euro is kicking our ass... because we are sending our money and soldiers to them.
THIS IS ALL MY OPINION, HERES MY SOLUTION:
tell them all to get bent.
Shut the borders.
Pull out the troops.
Tax everything coming over.
They start bleeding cuz someone is invading their country, tell them to grow a pair and fight back, or embrace their new dictator.
If you want a sound economy You will pay with your conscience.
Presidents have been making descisions that weigh out like this:
Our people can suffer some to bring good to another area.
They can do this economically, or with their blood.
They can call a draft, and you or your kids may have to go fight. Essentially they will feign playing God, by doing it by a lottery.
The less power a government has over you, the better off you will be.
E-bo is over there because he is a great American. He is putting his shit on the line for his family. Blood or sweat, either way, it's how everything is built in this world.
In school I wanted to be a soldier. (be prepared for a rant)
Now that I have seen my friends going through the training, sitting around, injections, getting tortured, and doing everything for "country" I have another way of thinking.
Your country sees you as a piece of meat.
They will send you into the meatgrinder, and want to hear you say "how fast should I run into it?" before you go.
The people in this country? They want to know why their kids are being shipped off. (well dont you know we got attacked?) hmmm.... Our brothers and sisters, our kids, our parents, they are fighting for the government. The government is who pissed off the camel jockey terrorists. The government set up the piss poor foreign economic policies that killed all the jobs here. We started pissing everyone off when we got off our asses to get Germany out of France and save the UK (both are pretty ungrateful) from that we should have gotten right back in our Isolationist groove.
I am watching as my state collapses around me. Why?
Because the industries that drove our economies can't employ people when Wal-Mart, or Home Depot wont buy their goods. Again, Why?
Because there is no tax or tarriff preventing China for selling cheaper products at prices that cant be competed with. Another reason is our wage laws prevent wages being dropped to an affordable level to compete.
There are several factors that go into creating these problems. Most of them go back to GOV'T. how do you fix it? Well, for starters, why did we fight the revolutionary war to stop taxation without representation. We just got the taxers moved from England to a little old place in the "district of Columbia" a little closer. Most of our wages go into taxes, all our lives, whether we benefit or not. They go so some other slob can get supported by "the system" that they didn't even pay into. Then we want to make everybody else in the world happy, so we dont tax their cheap ass products that are rolling in, and throw our own people under the bus. Our Government is in a state of near collapse. It is also overstretching itself to police other countries. Have you been watching currency? The Euro is kicking our ass... because we are sending our money and soldiers to them.
THIS IS ALL MY OPINION, HERES MY SOLUTION:
tell them all to get bent.
Shut the borders.
Pull out the troops.
Tax everything coming over.
They start bleeding cuz someone is invading their country, tell them to grow a pair and fight back, or embrace their new dictator.
If you want a sound economy You will pay with your conscience.
Presidents have been making descisions that weigh out like this:
Our people can suffer some to bring good to another area.
They can do this economically, or with their blood.
They can call a draft, and you or your kids may have to go fight. Essentially they will feign playing God, by doing it by a lottery.
The less power a government has over you, the better off you will be.
E-bo is over there because he is a great American. He is putting his shit on the line for his family. Blood or sweat, either way, it's how everything is built in this world.
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warsloth
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lolwarsloth wrote:I need to lay off the caffiene...
Jabe
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Jabe Adaks
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My new saying for the United States version of War is : Were going beat the living shiz outta you but you know what? After were done were gonna pay for all your Doctor bills and take your ass out to dinner!!! Feel threatened yet?
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Orph@N
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Oh that's for certain. During my Freshman and Sophmore years of college, I was an ROTC member, and right off the back they started grooming us for the Officer's Corp, and they pretty much flat out told us to think of enlisted men and women as numbers rather than people so that way we wouldn't have ethical dilemmas sending them out for suicide missions.Now that I have seen my friends going through the training, sitting around, injections, getting tortured, and doing everything for "country" I have another way of thinking.
Your country sees you as a piece of meat.
And that was back in 1999--before the whole war on "terror" thing. I'd love to see what they're saying now.
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Kyanus
- Master Sergeant
As an officer you automatically become a number of higher importance, they have invested more time and money in you. You are still valuable to their game, its just that the pawns are easier to sacrifice as they progress across the board.
People in the government aren't neccessarily bad, its the organization that becomes an evil machine.
If a state seceeded from the union, I would hope to be in it. Even if I was going to be turned into mulch.
People in the government aren't neccessarily bad, its the organization that becomes an evil machine.
If a state seceeded from the union, I would hope to be in it. Even if I was going to be turned into mulch.
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warsloth
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E-bo, I don't know you, but my prayers are with you. I'm USAF, and I'm currently in Iraq. Keep your head down, and I'll see you IG when we both get back in Sept.
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Zaren Sin
- Lance Corporal
Not quite.Your country sees you as a piece of meat.
More like as an investment.
If they saw every soldier as a piece of meat, they'd stop armoring troops, they'd stop armoring Humvees, they'd stop trying to mass produce the Land Warrior system, which was specifically designed to reduce fatal casualties in a theater of war.
It costs too much to train and ship a soldier off to fight. The government's become much more penny/pound conscious of how much it costs to wage war, so at least be thankful that they're trying to save lives in order to save money.
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X'an Shin
- SWG Tales Founder
ok. a piece of meat in premium packaging...
It was a very general statement. And it is still a measure of our suffering versus theirs. If you have volunteered yourself into the program then you have no reason to gripe. It is a volunteer service at this point. My friend in Germany knows he has no excuse, he is just dealing with it. We should be appreciative of our VOLUNTEER service people. If it weren't for them the rest of us could be conscripted into it.
It was a very general statement. And it is still a measure of our suffering versus theirs. If you have volunteered yourself into the program then you have no reason to gripe. It is a volunteer service at this point. My friend in Germany knows he has no excuse, he is just dealing with it. We should be appreciative of our VOLUNTEER service people. If it weren't for them the rest of us could be conscripted into it.
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warsloth
- Surface Marshal
Well, this thread took an interesting twist. I spent most of the day heading back and forth to the terminal trying to get a flight. Stopped in the office quick to see what is up. lol. you guys are crazy.
Anyway. I should be heading out in a few hours for real this time. Every flight today was cargo...
And no worries, there are a lot worse places they could be sending me.
Anyway. I should be heading out in a few hours for real this time. Every flight today was cargo...
And no worries, there are a lot worse places they could be sending me.
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E-bo Obi
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This is kind of hard for me - not having hit the forums really and recovering from a headwound (souvenier of Iraq). I guess there are a couple of things I'd like to offer:
I'm a Captain in the Army - and oddly they never taught me to think of my men as pieces of meat. When my loader was killed during the attack I got hit in it took me awhile to figure-out that I was wounded (too busy pulling him under cover and trying to get him patched-up to notice that the sweat in my eyes was blood)
When one of your men dies or is wounded - it hurts, more than I can say. You feel guilty for being alive. I must have missed the Meatpacking course.
If a state seceeded from the union, I would hope to be in it. Even if I was going to be turned into mulch. <---- there are plenty of states out their that aren't part of the US - feel free to move to one - no one will stop you, because we believe in your freedom to choose - Canada is close by and most speak english.
I'm sorry about rambling - it can be hard to put words together right when your head is bad.
It saddens me that someone who I assume is a citizen of the US has such a low opinion of the humanity of people in their armed forces.
If you want to see high taxes, btw - move to europe.
Shoroliakan
*Been there, done that*
I'm a Captain in the Army - and oddly they never taught me to think of my men as pieces of meat. When my loader was killed during the attack I got hit in it took me awhile to figure-out that I was wounded (too busy pulling him under cover and trying to get him patched-up to notice that the sweat in my eyes was blood)
When one of your men dies or is wounded - it hurts, more than I can say. You feel guilty for being alive. I must have missed the Meatpacking course.
If a state seceeded from the union, I would hope to be in it. Even if I was going to be turned into mulch. <---- there are plenty of states out their that aren't part of the US - feel free to move to one - no one will stop you, because we believe in your freedom to choose - Canada is close by and most speak english.
I'm sorry about rambling - it can be hard to put words together right when your head is bad.
It saddens me that someone who I assume is a citizen of the US has such a low opinion of the humanity of people in their armed forces.
If you want to see high taxes, btw - move to europe.
Shoroliakan
*Been there, done that*
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Shoroliakan
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Well I just got back from another whirlwind tour of lower Afghanistan.
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