Marines Try to Recruit 78-Year-Old Woman

[UpInArms]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=13&u=/ap/20060325/ap_on_fe_st/elderly_recruit

SAUGUS, Calif. - Sonia Goldstein was flattered by the nice recruiting letter asking her to consider becoming one of "the few, the proud." But at age 78, she believes she's just a little old to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps.

"I couldn't believe it," Goldstein told KCAL-TV on Friday. "My girls were sitting here ... we were in hysterics, we laughed so hard."

The letter told her the corps could use her unique language skills, but also warned that life as a Marine would test her physical and mental abilities "beyond anything you've ever known."

"There I am with my walker. I can't maneuver from here to there without it," said Goldstein, who added that her only language is English.

"I'll do whatever I could for this wonderful country we live in," she said. "But you know, this is kind of stretching it a bit."

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Is our military that hard up?

:rofl:

[MessiahRp]

1. Put her on the front lines!

That'll get them terra-ists.

Rp

[LisaL]

6. No doubt with her there, we would win the war.

[Nutmegger]

2. Sadly, things are really that stretched

Got to go get 'em "terra-ists"!!!

GRRRRR! :grr:

This needs a:kick:and a:thumbsup:!!!

[AnneD]

3. Well.....

the way the Bush admin views the elderly in this country this could mean:
1)a clever way to cut the number of those on Social Security, Medicare, Prescription drug program.
2)scared shitless about facing another group of angry seniors.
3)grandmotherly peace protesters/terrorists are a clear and present danger to America's security.
4)hoping to get his Dad to re up to avoid further unpleasant phone calls-(my coalition is bigger than yours).

[TlalocW]

4. I don't see what the problem is

Sign up, Grandma America-Hater!

:sarcasm:

TlalocW

[American liberal]

5. Sounds like a new Medicare program that goes a step beyond

what Cheney envisions. See Cheney's plan is once senior Americans turn 78, you take 'em out in the woods and shoot 'em in the face. By signing them up into the military, at least you might get some use out of 'em before you shoot 'em. :rofl: Please do NOT misconstrue my rather macabre humor as thinking Medicare is a laughing matter. I am SICK about what is happening to social programs in this country.

[Canuckistanian]

7. This is the kind of thing Al-Qaeda dreams of

"See? They're so short of voluteers, they must use old women to fight for them."

[rucky]

8. The DOD is developing an assault walker...

for our super secret Senior Brigade.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. That was a modern day summons to the death camps

Don't be alarmed. Your deaths will be peaceful.

:hide:
:sarcasm:

[Gman]

10. I guess the military thinks

it never hurts to ask.

[wordpix2]

11. more incompetence from BushCo

[Sabriel]

12. They should go after my MIL, instead

Her green bean casserole with fried onion topping is a WMD all to itself.

[cassiepriam]

13. I am 54 yrs old and I keep receiving recruiting letters

I am in a profession that they are interested in. Some of my colleagues are reservists and have been deployed. One over 55. The other in late 60's.
They are going directly to combat situations in Iraq.

Yes the military is hard up. And several in demand professions have been
quietly discussing whether or not they could begin drafting us. Some of us even have plans on what to do if that happens.