Tired of military bashing..., page 5

On Afirmative action, I cry bull#.

You assume everyne on here is gonna buy your line of Bull# with COMMSEC and OPSEC.

You have broken both by getting on here and stating what you have.

Youre also not intelligent enough to be in the airforce. Your grammar and language skills show someone who couldnt get an ASVAB score high enough to join the Marines, let alone the air force.

I was a 52D (power generation equipmewnt repairer, or geneator mechanic for short). I was in a Patriot missile unit. For over half my enlistment, I was stationed on Air Force Bases. I have been around enough airforce to know, you aint one of em.

First off your comments about morale show you know NOTHING. Troops when I was in bad mouthed the president. (I was in under Klinton, sadly, you can thank him for the sorry state of the armed forces today).

Many soldiers even back then held a cyccism towards the govornment and commander in chief. Much eye rolling when they told us, if we were captured, our govornment would come rescue us. Our NCOs made side notes, if we are captured, kiss your ass goodbye, just ask the guys in nam.

The true morale of soldiers will never be broadcast on TV, because the highe up dont want the truth. Whenever we had inspections, from CI inspection to surprise ones, most soldiers were herded off to other places to engage in bull# exercises of no training value, but they were showy. papaerwork and documents, records, were always doctored up to look good. A nice shine job, a few fast talkers to tapdance through the inspections. A handful of soldiers were selected to dine with the general or whoever came through, those soldiers were briefed on how to respond to questions, what to say and what not to say. So, when an outsider is asking a soldier whats going on, hows life, he can expect to be fed a line of oure grade a bull# that the unit commander approved.

We werent even allowed to talk to the media. Our leaders told us if we were approached by anyone in the media, to say nothing and direct theem to the units public relations officer.

But behind the scenes, behind all the "weve got a job to do fluff" is a different story. Bitter cyncism as troops roll thier eyes at the bull#, they know what a crock it was.

When I was in Saudi, I aske my commander what we wee doing there. The Saudis were far from democratic, they were asshole, and it was well known they supported terror. I asked, since the gulf war ended, what we were doing there. He rolled his eyes, smiled, and said, you know why. ( I did, I was just trying to see if anyone else realized it). It was his 4th rotation in SWA, he saids,, its all about thier oil, were here for thier oil.

So, the soldiers now know they have been lied to. Now that they are in the middle of it.

But I condemn anyone who calls them idiots saying they had a choice in going. NO, they do not, you refuse to go to iaq, you spend years in prison, get a dishonorable dischargee, and are screwed for life.

When many of us joined the services, we did it because we wanted to defend our countires. We did not know what wed actually be doing when we signed up. WE didnt know anymore than the general american public knows.

We only find out too late once were in and locked. By bashing the US military, you alienate potential allies to your cause. Look at curme. Look at me. we were both soldiers. Now we are anti war. Many veterans come our ever suspicious and distrustful of the gov. Unlike others, who become antigovornment through things they read, we became what we are because we were there first hand.

So lay off the soldiers, people. They are learning the hard way what you are learning in the comfort and safety of your own homes.