Originally Posted by Americano

One becomes weary of uniformed grown men acting like chest beating braggart children. I do realize their bravado/team/camaraderie remarks are primary psychological factors that provide them with the motivation to do their job and understand their training empathizes it to instill the attitude necessary to keep them functioning in their chosen circumstances, but it reminds me of a bowling team trying to roll strikes on a football field. Over and over again while wondering why the crowd has disappeared. I'm of the opinion that those who chose/choose the military are unaware that many civilians would prefer that they go about their lives without bothering others with their rationalizations, slogans and look at me, I'm a ______ . Perhaps other vocations could begin touting their professions and military buffs would realize how boring listening to someone else talk about what they did/do actually is. Maybe we could start with engineers, morticians or even stamp collectors.

Originally Posted by SomeMarine

Can't refute the facts, so you just throw out the incompetence and indiscriminate killing cards?

Originally Posted by Americano

As far as I'm concerned, you're doing the job you volunteered for, following your orders and that's that. Your competence and who you kill are what I'm paying for and I'm sadly disappointed my leadership is employing conventional skill sets in unconventional circumstances that often result in further antagonizing of the civilian citizenry of other countries by the deaths of their fellow citizens.

Originally Posted by SomeMarine

I hope this wasn't aimed at me.

Originally Posted by Americano

Civilians killed as many as ten miles away from the original incident are now termed enemies? Does that mean all indigenous persons in any country other than US marines are now defined as enemies?

Originally Posted by chassisman

I'm sure it was. We have a few members here whose keyboards that have an enormous set of balls underneath. They have a lot to say from the safety of Mom's basement.

Originally Posted by Americano

I don't have a basement but do have the ability to pay others for the tasks they perform to secure their positions on the food chain. Other than at the civilian pinnacle of the profession killing has never been a highly compensated task. Trying to kill people who have the same intent as a vocation has normally always been at the lower end of any pay scale due to the potential physical/mental damage and ease of training and replacement, assembly line stuff. To each his/her own.

Originally Posted by Americano

Why would anyone with a working brain cell want to throw on a pair of boots and go there? Fighting a lost war while killing civilians is bad enough without being there.

Originally Posted by Americano

One becomes weary of uniformed grown men acting like chest beating braggart children. I do realize their bravado/team/camaraderie remarks are primary psychological factors that provide them with the motivation to do their job and understand their training empathizes it to instill the attitude necessary to keep them functioning in their chosen circumstances, but it reminds me of a bowling team trying to roll strikes on a football field. Over and over again while wondering why the crowd has disappeared. I'm of the opinion that those who chose/choose the military are unaware that many civilians would prefer that they go about their lives without bothering others with their rationalizations, slogans and look at me, I'm a ______ . Perhaps other vocations could begin touting their professions and military buffs would realize how boring listening to someone else talk about what they did/do actually is. Maybe we could start with engineers, morticians or even stamp collectors.

Originally Posted by Rakkasan

spoken like a true antiwar follower who wouldnt defend anything cause its not in their "skill set" to get their hands dirty

seems to me by your posts you and the goobers of this board , you guys cant handle the "military types" cause you know you could never handle the rigors of doing something other than for yourselves...and of course any physically demanding job would just be too much for you to handle you guys are above physical labor in the end military service is way out of your reach so you must condemn it and belittle it for "we mock what we dont understand" sums you guys up really well....

Originally Posted by chassisman

Simply incredible.