Found on Craigslist - Why I am getting out of the Marines

[Spacemom]

Intense :(

http://austin.craigslist.com/about/best/wdc/118782492.html

[wake.up.america]

1. War is nasty!!!! Top Gun is not reality.

Why is this on Craig?

[Spacemom]

2. It was posted

in the Rants and Raves section.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Why question the person who linked this to this board?....

If you have a problem, take it to Craigslist and the guy who posted it there.

[wake.up.america]

12. I apparently do not know Craigs List very well. I did not realize ...

craigs list normally includes such articles and I was wondering why such an article would be posted at craigs list.

Thank you for your attention.

[brokensymmetry]

3. Kicked & Nominated. n/t

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[craychek]

4. Damn...

If that is an accurate depiction of what is really going on then HOLY SHIT!

Kicked and nominated! Come on guys nominate the hell out of this.

[Minnesota Libra]

5. OMG, that is powerful stuff and should be read by........

.....all those stinking neocons who stand up for Bush. These are our young people our next generation that should have lives to run this country. OMFG, I hate these G...D... jerks and above all I hate Cheney because he is the main one. Bush is just his lacky.

[Devlzown]

7. K&R n/t

[dorkulon]

8. Wonder if it's real

Anybody have any idea on how to confirm?

[drm604]

13. It might be possible.

It might be possible to check out the names he mentions to see if people with those names all died in the same Marine unit. There is an email address at the top of the message where the writer can be contacted. He might be able to give some verifying information. Then again, he may be so fed up with everything that he won't even bother.

[sendero]

9. The damage this fiasco...

.... is doing to our military is incalculable. Soldiers sign up to defend the country, and they are willing to make huge sacrifices. But they expect their willingness to die for the rest of us to be respected and not used in a pointless and useless way.

It sounds like many of our soldiers are realizing what a sad joke this "war" is.

[Ganja Ninja]

10. To see where this is possibly leading read Gary Hart's blog ...

at Huffington Post. This is where we're headed mark my words.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/us-army-in-jeopardy-in-ir_b_17188.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Reminds me of my days in the Crotch Air Wing.

I was one of those guys who strapped the drunk/hung over pilots in and listened to them beg me to "down" their planes.
Or, standing in the freezing rain waiting for them to land so we could fuel the planes at the fuel pits, and shouting, in chorus, "Dive! Dive!" as they tried to catch the hook.

At least this one has some sense.