I just heard on the news that the guys who were injured

[JoMama49]

in the mess tent bombing the other day are in Germany, and the ones who are well enough will get to be home in time for the holidays! Wow, so this is the only way to get out of Iraq? I think if I was over there, I'd be thinking real hard about inflicting a flesh wound on myself. A trip to Germany, and then a quick trip home.

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. How judgemental.

You will be deploying to the Iraqi Theater when?

[MissBrooks]

4. too old - sorry

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Might I suggest then...

That since you are too old, and since when you were young enough, women were not being deployed to front-line positions, and that since your perceptions are likely filtered through the flawed lens of the MSM, you might want to cut some of these kids, especially those being deployed for their second round in The Sandbox, a little slack.

Because honey, you don't know shit about what they know. What they have had burned into their souls. That said, it wouldn't hurt for you to learn. Why not go to OpTruth and learn, instead of just letting fly with flawed opinions on a forum?

I didn't have to serve in The Nam. But I listened to too many of my friends, when they kinda returned, and then I watched too many of them kill themselves, either quickly or slowly. But they are just are dead, because war sucks. It is an unnatural act and no one who fights in one isn't a victim. It's just the degree of symptoms that is different. But they are all symptomatic.

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[MissBrooks]

17. Are you serving?

Why should I shut up - but you don't have to?

[Skittles]

19. See MissBrooks, I DID SERVE

fifteen years as a GI brat and four years active duty. THAT'S WHY I DON'T HAVE TO SHUT UP.

[Karenca]

20. Golly Miss Brooks

Gee whiz..
I wuz thinkin this wuz a democratick fourim.

[NavyDem]

6. I agree with MissBrooks....

And to answer your question:

August '92 - January '93
September '93 February '94
August 2001 - January 2002 (Afghanistan, Persian Gulf)
February 2003 - November 2003

[tabasco]

9. You're young enough to go back in ...

this time sign up for infantry duty.

INFANTRY VET
AIRBORNE
RANGER
CIB

[NavyDem]

10. Still on active duty...

But thanks for the invite. My next trip will happen soon enough. Carry on Pvt.

[radar]

7. That's right

The Army's looking for enthusiastic people who have no problem calling those that serve cowards....

1-800-USA-ARMY, ext.181
http://www.goarmy.com/flindex.jsp

Now, the Nat'l Guard & Reserve - that's where the real macho types should apply...
"Body Armor & vehicle protection? That's for pussies! RAMBO didn't need that modern techno shit - and neither should a real patriot!!!"

http://www.1800goguard.com/home.html

**end of sarcastic post**

[NewYorkerfromMass]

14. Yeah well, maybe they didn't expect to have an insane dipshit CiC

leading them into FUBAR missions w/o proper equipment when they signed up.

[NavyDem]

16. We go to war with the CiC we have, not the one we would want...

LoL...I'm sorry I had to throw that in there. It was just ripe for the picking.

Now, on a more serious note, self inflicted wounds are not necessarily gonna get someone sent home from the war, unless the wounds are sufficient to cause serious damage. Then, the soldier would be seeing the brig far sooner than his/her family.

[knowbody0]

2. my husband perforated his eardrum

with a dixon ticonderoga # 2 pencil 2 weeks before he was scheduled to come home from vietnam. he never reccovered from the war and ive not heard from him in 20 years.

[ClintonTyree]

5. How sad................

two more victims from that terrible mistake. Only you're not counted in any statistics. Think how many more suffered the same fate, and how many will suffer the same fate for Bush's Iraq fiasco.
You have my heartfelt sympathy.

[txaslftist]

11. None of them are going to die

According to the news radio this p.m., all of the wounded who made it to Germany are going to survive, although I have no idea how injured/disabled they might be.

Thanks be.

[Walt Starr]

12. That'll get you a one way trip to Leavenworth

Sorry, but that's a major crime under the UCMJ.

[Big Kahuna]

15. What a disgusting thread.

[hopein08]

18. I agree...

maybe it should just be shut down.