06-14-2016, 03:02 PM
(06-14-2016, 06:51 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Ahh going back to 2015. You should probably be charging me rent for all that space I'm taking up in your head.
So am I supposed to feel back for having a full football scholarship?
I had athletic and academic scholarships. Didn't stop me. Personal responsibility. Don't make excuses. Be better than that . . .
It's kinda like when people say don't complain if you didn't vote. If someone is unwilling to serve selflessly they really shouldn't complain about how weak we are and disparage "Generation Snowflake" when it is that generation who is serving overseas this very minute and have done more for their country than the person sitting in the comfort of their home posting disparaging remarks about their generation on the internet.
That type of irony makes me roll with laughter.
Quote:And we are weak. We expect guys to go over and do a job and give them all sorts of rules and limits. The military doesn't need to deploy if you are going to saddle them with nonsense. That's on our policy makers.
Now that the military is significantly less involved in Iraq, we are actually better positioned strategically to respond to other threats across the globe. While we were commited simultaneously in Afghanistan and Iraq, a third country (like North Korea for instance) could have done almost anything they wanted and there would have been very little we could have done about it.
You don't have any idea what rules and limits the military has. Our ROE (rules of engagement for the military acronym challenged) allowed us to engage if we saw someone talking on a cellphone and had reason to believe they were reporting our position for an attack.
