Having commanded a mech infantry company with a broken collar bone and busted ribs, I am fairly knowledgeable about that.
No, they don’t – for some reason, the elite in our society shun military service these days. You would think that those to whom much is given would be giving us some payback, leading our troops, rather than sitting back home and griping.
I think you are confusing wounded with killed. It is the KIA rate for the “Walking Dead” in Vietnam (about 94%) which is a USMC record.
Someday I’ll have to get the story on that one. In the late 60s the footprint was already pretty large. I was anxious to get back, but my slot certainly wasn’t empty while I was wounded. In the later years, when the footprint was downright enormous, I wouldn’t have imagined any need to deploy wounded. (I’m not questioning your story, I just suspect that the circumstances might have been unusual).Having commanded a mech infantry company with a broken collar bone and busted ribs, I am fairly knowledgeable about that.
They were – I was an experienced combat Infantry officer, and they were in short supply in the Fall of '69. When I finally got a replacement, he was killed before I got out of country.
Nope, as was pointed out. Ya gotta remember, the Joint Chiefs are NOT in the Chain of Command. The Chain goes President, Sec Def Combantant Commanders.
It doesn’t take a high IQ to believe in conspiracy theories.
Whomever can be the most easily bullied into paying. And of course it’s all good.Yes – the ultimate state will see us all with no freedom, no jobs, no responsibility, and all of us on welfare with a government health-care plan.
But who will** pay** for all those things?
Hey! You and me both, bud.
Ssshhh! You know that’s classified information, Humphrey! :tsktsk:Look out! The CFR may come up through your toilet and grab you when you least expect it!
As some one said, the problem with capitalism is that people don’t get an equal share of the benefits. The problem with communism is that everyone gets an equal share of the misery.Whomever can be the most easily bullied into paying. And of course it’s all good.
Then you have never seen the very best orators. Bobby Kennedy used to do this all the time. That was back in the days of live news reporting, live interviews.
Is that true though?
Well, the leaders don’t. They get the best of everything – just like kings and queens in the old days. It’s the peasants who get the misery – just like in the old days.
I haven’t read the whole thread yet so please forgive me if you expanded on this thought later on…
The peasants at least had their land. Not so the poor and downtrodden handicrafted by the Reformation. (Much of this argument is not about either/or but of proportionality.)Well, the leaders don’t. They get the best of everything – just like kings and queens in the old days. It’s the peasants who get the misery – just like in the old days.
Actually, the peasants didn’t own land – they held it from their lord, who held it from the King.The peasants at least had their land. Not so the poor and downtrodden handicrafted by the Reformation. (Much of this argument is not about either/or but of proportionality.)
And “they” came for us in Canada too. Only the “they” were us and we busted them before they could do as much damage.
Correct. However, the peasants were not ‘turfed off’ and taxed til their back teeth hurt so to speak until the enlightened new thinking of Luther and the magnificent princes.