Are all soldiers like the Nazis?
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Ummmm.... Well, most soldiers, of any country that I am aware of, don't make a habit of using the "nag" weapon - it's outlawed by the Geneva convention you know...
As to the other, you do realize that under any "normal" conditions of war (if there is such a thing) life would involve "fighting back with a gun" (or worse), right SAM?
In spite of all this lovey-dovey stuff, you sort of side stepped the question...
You apparently, in good faith, asserted that you would kill to protect your family, if attacked. Is this true?
If so, doesn't that mean:
Let me know, sweetheart...
:thankyou:
I've never been faced with the situation but let me put it this way, if by some chance, my family was in danger and I went out and got the biggest bomb I could find and dropped it on the neighborhood of the people I suspected had attacked them or were planning to attack them, you have permission to remind me to blow my brains out. Premeditated murder is murder under any excuse.
You have to worry about the US, Britain, Israel and their puppets NATO followers . Wow....that is too much worry to carry around !.
It's usually not premeditated SAM - most soldiers encounter enemy combatants by surprise, and have to kill, and have to kill very quickly. Very similar to the conditions that you can comprehend in the analogy involving your immediate family.
However, I see that you have returned to your normal cat and mouse games, wherein you refuse to answer a direct question:
Should we request that you blow your brains out? Will you grant our request?
You seem to meet the qualifications, at least under certain circumstances... How do you propose to wiggle out of this, other than by ignoring the question all together. :shrug:
So it would be alright for me to train in Sere for several weeks, learn advanced weapon handling and drop a bomb on a suspected neighborhood to defend my family as a non-premeditated way of defending myself? I assume once I dropped a few bombs on a few neighborhoods people may start "defending" themselves against me, and try to take me by surprise, hence making it even more necessary for me to preemptively bomb them?
I'm attempting to distinguish between a reaction and a premeditated commitment to a violent career by volunteering to specialise in it
Go ahead. Survive evade resist and escape. I don't know if you can take several weeks of it though.
Typically some one who states something like this has statistics. Care to share?
It's a bullshit assertion on its face, of course, and can only be supported if you already believe the rest of the piss and vitriol he's been spewing throughout the thread.
Statistically, members of the US military are more or less a cross section of mainstream America. They do tend to be both better educated and more likely to come from wealthier backgrounds than their peers in civilian life, however.
edit: I have no idea what similar statistics from the other professional militaries of the world would look like, but my experience with allied forces (which has been varied and rather extensive) leads me to believe they are much the same.
Statistically, members of the US military are more or less a cross section of mainstream America. They do tend to be both better educated and more likely to come from wealthier backgrounds than their peers in civilian life, however.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda08-05.cfm
edit: I have no idea what similar statistics from the other professional militaries of the world would look like, but my experience with allied forces (which has been varied and rather extensive) leads me to believe they are much the same.
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Mind if I ask which military you served?
WillNever
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More educated? I doubt it. Approximately one third of the USA is university educated with a bachelor's or higher. The percentage of military personnel who reach that same bar is significantly lower. Also, that report is stating that more than a fifth of Americans 18-24 didn't graduate high school when the number is closer to 15% -- heavily influenced by minorities. So I guess that's a source of pride: the average military personnel is one step above drug dealers and prostitutes.
Perhaps we should reinstitute the gentlemanly past-time of dueling, just for people like you...
Care to participate?
Sometimes soldiers are kinda like the flock of a religion. They are forgoing many things of themselves in order to become something larger than themselves.
Except they actually do something. The good and evil of it, is simply perspective.
Except they actually do something. The good and evil of it, is simply perspective.
I'm not sure I understand this because SERE is Survival, Evasion, Resistance, & Escape. It is the training our Armed Forces participate in if they are in high risk fields. And, by high risk, I mean more likely to become a POW (Prisoner of War). They do NOT learn weapon handling.
And, this isn't WWII. We don't carpet bomb villages/towns to get one house anymore. We have precision guided munitions.
Am I to judge all Indians by your actions? Am I to judge all members of these forums by your actions? Are you an accurate representation of EVERYBODY in your vicinity?
I'm not sure SAM
Fixed...
Thank [insert deity] no - she is rabid on this topic...
Marine Corps here. Still active duty, though not for too much longer. The joint service/allied military work I've done has been as a JTAC.
Don't tell me, you're already putting in the retirement paperwork?
If you haven't guessed, I'm active army.