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Originally posted by WestPoint23
south Korea will get crushed by the north if we leave they don't have the numbers and don't have as much equipment and tanks as the north dose if we leave and they get invaded they will regret us leaving them then we will have to go in and dame them from the north again!
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
That's what we get for putting a non-military pinhead in charge.
Originally posted by cavscout
EastCoastKid, westpoint is not in the army. He is going to be a senior next year and thinks he is going to westpoint.
Originally posted by cavscout
EastCoastKid, westpoint is not in the army. He is going to be a senior next year and thinks he is going to westpoint.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
No I have not served in the military and 99% percent of the people in this site haven't also so what dose that mean we cant post our point of views.
[edit on 1-7-2004 by WestPoint23]
Originally posted by sweatmonicaIdo
EastCoastKid,
I am planning to go into military service in four years. I am entering college this fall and I want to be a Marine officer in four years and lead a Marine infantry platoon into battle. I really don't know what war is really like, but I do know what war is about: survival. That's why we fight. It's something you have to win.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
You don't know anything about me and I wish you luck to becoming a marine officer im not West Point material? Well we will just have to wait and see sure I don't have to go to west point I can just enlist and be a private but I never pass up a good challenge that is why im going to west point.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
The one thing I realize now, looking back, is how little I actually knew back then. And I was pretty experienced for a 20 yr-old. Trust me, I'd been around the block a few times before I ever joined. It was the political stuff and knowledge of history that I was lacking. Not such a bad thing for an idealistic young soldier.
ps. When that day comes and you are in charge of a platoon or a company, do me a favor - look out for the little guys. There is no smaller existence than that of a private or lance corporal (in the free world). It can be a harsh and frightening place to be. Treat them well and look out for them. They will, in turn, give you 150% and the most cherished thing of all, undying respect.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
As someone whose been through the fire I can attest, the people of the United States havn't seen nearly enough of war's reality.
Kids minds today are polluted with useless, violent video games about killing and destruction and they are bombarded by violence in movies and tv. I contend that is where they get the abominable idea that war is like a video game.
Trust me kids, it ain't. You can't imagine.
Our media's coverage of this war has been abysmal. If Americans got a steady dose of the reality on the ground, we'd be demanding the immediate withdrawel of our troops. Trust me on that.