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Bait Masterson
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 Posted: 11/11/03 - 18:02 Post subject: For the AMERICAN vets out there.
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<img src="http://www.cfdrodeo.com/images/salute.gif">
Marines
<img src="http://www.prideofmichigan.org/images/salute.jpg">
Navy
<img src="http://www.capital.edu/acad/as/rotc/images/salute.jpg">
Army
<img src="http://www2.acc.af.mil/accnews/nov01/HornburgR.JPG">
Air Force
I want to thank my brothers for serving in our great countrys military and for helping to keep this country the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Banzai
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 18:10 Post subject:
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/salute
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Paco
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 18:12 Post subject:
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You're welcome.
Thanks!
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compusmack
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 18:28 Post subject:
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/thanks
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Frax
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 19:41 Post subject:
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Yay us Air Force people get a Red "X" for Vets day! woot!
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 20:56 Post subject:
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/salute
All the way SIR!!
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 21:07 Post subject:
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that takes balls.
which are most a afraid of?
1)drowning and suffocating
2)falling and going splat
3)getting shot in the face
4)all three at the same time.
hahaha, 1 navy, 2 air force 3 army 4 marines.
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Rennol
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 21:13 Post subject:
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Heh, some guys from my pop's work asked him if he wanted to go sky diving one day.
He said, "Well, after you get paid to jump out of airplanes with a rifle and equipment, ready to land on the ground and either die or kill people, doing it for fun doesn't have the same appeal."
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Jarec
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 21:42 Post subject:
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/salute to you all. Each and every one of them is doing a great service to America and the world and deserves our undying respect.
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Frax
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 21:43 Post subject:
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/salute Sgt Bruce Schaefer, USAR, UH-1 crew member, died 1993 of Lymphoma due to exposure to Agent Orange. A good man, husband, father, friend, and a Vietnam veteran. R.I.P.
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Faerdal
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 22:56 Post subject:
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| ATM Banana wrote: | which are most a afraid of?
1)drowning and suffocating
2)falling and going splat
3)getting shot in the face
4)all three at the same time.
hahaha, 1 navy, 2 air force 3 army 4 marines. |
navy hasnt lost a combat vessel since WWII, heh. (and i dont count PC's as combat vessels, i know we probably lost a few of them in vietnam, i'm talking frigate/destroyer/cruiser/etc)
discounting accidental/training deaths, which is actually how nearly all modern military deaths occur, the navy and air force have very very few casualties. this is partially due to the nature of the way they conduct combat operations, and partially because few hostile countries have a navy or air force/anti-air system that could seriously threaten us. hell, most allied countries besides britain don't come close to matching those two branches either. if we didn't have any desire to secure and retain any objectives in combat, the navy (or air force, with some outside support) alone could put enough munitions on target to cripple any country's military/industrial infrastructure, without coming into any serious danger. the only defense our enemies would have (either against our Navy, or in retaliation against our homeland itself) in that situation would be nuclear weaponry, and we do everything in our power to prevent those weapons from being developed or obtained. it would be a meaty slap to our face if we weren't able to engage a country someday because we let them get the one thing that we've tried for five decades to contain so tightly. without that level of containment, we don't have any influence or control over the rest of the world. without that control, we have problems. big problems. this is why presidents get such a stick up their ass about WMD's. to some people it may seem like its just an "excuse" to generate support, but there is an extremely good reason behind it. we've already let north korea develop and begin production of nuclear warheads, and now we're letting them further reasearch on improving their long range delivery vehicles for these warheads. we can't really invade them because they aren't threatening anyone yet, so we're stuck with politics.. which doesn't work when you have dictators like Kim Jong Il in power there. bad men with cruel intentions. we let them obtain something resembling a nuclear arsenal under the guise of "defensive" or "deterrance" weaponry, and some day something goes very, very awry. this is one of the few things in the world that truly scares me. we as a country derive much of our wealth and power from the control and influence we hold over the rest of the world. when our own people do not understand this, and prevent the leaders from exercising this control (or elect passive leaders), then we begin the slow slide into trouble and doubt.
/rant off, my post got a little bit off topic there but i f*****g hate the way the average american treats our leadership =)
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Faerdal
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 22:59 Post subject:
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p.s. faerdal for prez in 2016
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Rennol
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 23:10 Post subject:
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I wish more people were like you Faerdal.
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Faerdal
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Posted: 11/11/03 - 23:14 Post subject:
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1 vote down, a few hundred million to go
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lauren000
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 00:28 Post subject:
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freedom is a beautiful thing <3 for those who died and suffered for it.
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Paco
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 00:41 Post subject:
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Be Seated.
Men, this stuff we hear about America wanting to stay out of the war, not wanting to fight, is a lot of b******t. Americans love to fight - traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win - all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost, nor ever will lose a war, for the very thought of losing is hateful to an American.
You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Every man is frightened at first in battle. If he says he isn't, he's a g*****n liar. Some men are cowards, yes! But they fight just the same, or get the hell shamed out of them watching men who do fight who are just as scared. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some get over their fright in a minute under fire, some take an hour. For some it takes days. But the real man never lets fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to this country and his innate manhood.
All through your army career you men have bitched about "This chickenshit drilling." That is all for a purpose. Drilling and discipline must be maintained in any army if for only one reason -- INSTANT OBEDIENCE TO ORDERS AND TO CREATE CONSTANT ALERTNESS. I don't give a damn for a man who is not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready. A man to continue breathing must be alert at all times. If not, sometime a German son-of-a-b***h will sneak up behind him and beat him to death with a sock full of shit.
There are 400 neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily all because one man went to sleep on his job -- but they were German graves for we caught the b*****d asleep before his officers did. An Army is a team. Lives, sleeps, eats, fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is a lot of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting, under fire, than they do about f*****g. We have the best food, the finest equipment, the best spirit and the best fighting men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity these poor sons-of-b*****s we are going up against. By God, I do!
My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he is hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight. That's not just b******t, either. The kind of man I want under me is like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Lugar against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand and busted hell out of the Boche with the helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German: All this with a bullet through his lung. That's a man for you.
All real heroes are not story book combat fighters either. Every man in the army plays a vital part. Every little job is essential. Don't ever let down, thinking your role is unimportant. Every man has a job to do. Every man is a link in the great chain. What if every truck driver decided that he didn't like the whine of the shells overhead, turned yellow and jumped headlong into the ditch? He could say to himself, "They won't miss me -- just one in thousands." What if every man said that? Where in hell would we be now? No, thank God, Americans don't say that! Every man does his job; every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important to the vast scheme of things. The Ordnance men are needed to supply the guns, the Quartermaster to bring up the food and clothes to us -- for where we're going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man in the mess hall, even the one who heats the water to keep us from getting the GI s***s has a job to do. Even the chaplain is important, for if we get killed and if he is not there to bury us we'd all go to hell.
Each man must not only think of himself, but of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this army. They should all be killed off like flies. If not they will go back home after the war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed brave men. Kill off the g*****n cowards and we'll have a nation of brave men.
One of the bravest men I ever saw in the African campaign was the fellow I saw on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of furious fire while we were plowing toward Tunis. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at that time. He answered, "Fixing the wire, sir." "Isn't it a little unhealthy right now?," I asked. "Yes sir, but this g*****n wire's got to be fixed." There was a real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how great the odds, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time.
You should have seen those trucks on the road to Gabes. The drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-b******g roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting around them all the time. We got through on good old American guts. Many of these men drove over forty consecutive hours. These weren't combat men. But they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it -- and in a whale of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without them the fight would have been lost. All the links in the chain pulled together and that chain became unbreakable.
Don't forget, you don't know I'm here. No word of the fact is to be mentioned in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell became of me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this Army. I'm not even supposed to be in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the g*****n Germans. Someday I want them to raise up on their hind legs and howl, "Jesus Christ, it's the g*****n Third Army and that son-of-a-b***h Patton again."
We want to get the hell over there. We want to get over there and clear the g*****n thing up. You can't win a war lying down. The quicker we clean up this g*****n mess, the quicker we can take a jaunt against the purple p*****g Japs an clean their nest out too, before the Marines get all the g*****n credit.
Sure, we all want to be home. We want this thing over with. The quickest way to get it over is to get the bastards. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin. When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a Boche will get him eventually, and the hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one. We'll win this war but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans we've got more guts than they have.
There is one great thing you men will all be able to say when you go home. You may thank God for it. Thank God, that at least, thirty years from now, when you are sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knees, and he asks you what you did in the great war, you won't have to cough and say, "I shoveled shit in Louisiana."
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khrath
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 02:23 Post subject:
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lol kbarr, I found an old picture of me fully rigged up in a chute about to go on a jump, god i own ^^
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 02:29 Post subject:
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| Jarec wrote: | | /salute to you all. Each and every one of them is doing a great service to America and the world and deserves our undying respect. |
yeah haha. *shifts eyes around*
*whispers* i guess nobody noticed i was making fun of the military. = /
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Nemo
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 02:35 Post subject:
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| ATM Banana wrote: | | Jarec wrote: | | /salute to you all. Each and every one of them is doing a great service to America and the world and deserves our undying respect. |
yeah haha. *shifts eyes around*
*whispers* i guess nobody noticed i was making fun of the military. = / |
Hey Ass To Mouth die in a fire.
btw I am in the military, so once again die in a fire.
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Kaladam
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 03:40 Post subject:
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| Nemo wrote: | die in a fire.
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That insult is to be used on jews and only jews.
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Sunkorzien
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 03:42 Post subject:
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| Kaladam wrote: | | Nemo wrote: | die in a fire.
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That insult is to be used on jews and only jews. |
<Sunk> seen oven?
<frashiibot> oven was last seen on #realpoor 22 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds ago, saying: I WANT TO EAT SOME JEWS [Tue Nov 11 01:31:58 2003]
<Sunk> seen jews?
<frashiibot> jews was last seen on #realpoor 22 hours, 12 minutes and 0 seconds ago, saying: ahhh don't eat me oven  [Tue Nov 11 01:32:05 2003]
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Sunkorzien
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 03:44 Post subject:
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Oh, yeah, what about Coast Guard?
And every year the weekend closest to Vet's day that there's a home football game, the LSU marching band plays all the different service's songs and spells out their names...it's pretty f*****g cool. They also had an Orion flyover a couple of years ago.
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 04:05 Post subject:
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| Khrath wrote: | | lol kbarr, I found an old picture of me fully rigged up in a chute about to go on a jump, god i own ^^ |
Yes you do:)
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 04:08 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | Each man must not only think of himself, but of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this army. They should all be killed off like flies. If not they will go back home after the war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed brave men. Kill off the g*****n cowards and we'll have a nation of brave men. |
I love this part of the Patton quote.
| Quote: | | breed more cowards. |
To bad there are so many breeding now.
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Gutrippar
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 04:44 Post subject:
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In holland, the militairy is a job, and a job alone. no patriot b******t.
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Faerdal
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 05:55 Post subject:
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so, are you better or worse off for not involving patriotism?
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khrath
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 06:25 Post subject:
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Hollands military may just be a job, but it's likely because they lack the ability to stand up and take pride in that job, it's sad really.
Where on the other hand, I can take pride in the fact that i can say I was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, the same unti that made a combat jump into Holland, near the town of Nijmegen, and liberated the country from the Germans during WW2.
That's something to be looked back on. Something to be proud of, and in keeping it's memory alive and honoring the people who accomplished it, it builds tradition for soldiers yet to come, and gives them something to be proud of as well, and a reason to hold their heads up high and take pride in their "jobs"
=)
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Zwadrich
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 07:11 Post subject:
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Where on the other hand, I can take pride in the fact that i can say I was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, the same unti that made a combat jump into Holland, near the town of Nijmegen, and liberated the country from the Germans during WW2.
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Shouldve let the germans keep that stupid f****d up town. it sucks
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Celestra
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 07:25 Post subject:
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| Zwadrich wrote: | | Khrath wrote: |
Where on the other hand, I can take pride in the fact that i can say I was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, the same unti that made a combat jump into Holland, near the town of Nijmegen, and liberated the country from the Germans during WW2.
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Shouldve let the germans keep that stupid f****d up town. it sucks |
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
That made my day.
And Gutty, you suck ;p
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Spink
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Posted: 11/12/03 - 09:14 Post subject:
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| Faerdal wrote: | | so, are you better or worse off for not involving patriotism? |
seemed to work ok for the nazis
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