> New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
>
> I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down
> terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got
> the
> whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight,
> they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military
> unit until you're at least 35.
>
> For starters:
>
> Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys
> only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000
> additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
>
> Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is
> a
> dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry' We
> are impatient and maybe letting us kill some ####### that desperately
> deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
>
> An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always
> get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and
> can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some
> fanatical son-of-a-#####.
>
> If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put
> them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
>
> Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and
> yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an
> appreciation
> for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the
> house, away from the screaming and yelling.
>
> They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat
> and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor
> did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. I can hear the
> Drill Sgt. In the 'New army' now, 'Get down and give me ... er .. One.'
>
> Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never
> seen anyone outrun a bullet.
>
> An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to
> shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't
> figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back
> of his head.
>
> These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little
> more
> about life before sending them off into harm's way.
>
> Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last
> thing an enemy would want to see right now is a couple of million pissed
> off
> old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best
> years are already behind them. Also, we won't get in trouble for
> mistreating
> prisoners.
>
> We won't take any.
>
> If nothing else, put us on border patrol....we will have it secured the
> first night!
new military paradigm
by John Doe 2 Replies latest social humour
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John Doe
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carla
Cute! thanks, I'm sending it to some military people I know!
aah, now for the 'it's not politically correct crowd' to chime in.
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Bendrr
LOL!
That one's going out to every sergeant in my unit.