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JR F

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I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.



For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy..

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Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for awhile.



An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10am. Old guys always get up early to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-*****.





If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.



Boot camp would be easier for old guys.. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.





They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and never saw a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.



Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too... I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.



An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.



These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.



Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons, who know that their best years are already behind them.



HEY!! How about recruiting Women over 50...in menopause!!! You think MEN have attitudes?? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!! If nothing else, put them on border patrol. They'll have it secured the first night!

 
I tried to get back in in 2001... Wisely, they declined my services. I am convinced it was because of their realization that a grumpy old "bastage" would have been "uncontrollable". And, I agree, sending my wife would have been a violation of several rules of war!
 
Last line reminds me of a women I saw in Prescott, AZ a few years back. had on a Tshirt that said "WARNING: I am carrying a concealed weapon and I am out of estrogen"



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Jr.

I got that a while back and said I'd immediately volunteer. I'm retiring from teaching and would even do civilian contract work if I could. Didn't do much important on my Navy stretch helping operate a filling station in the middle of the ocean for super carriers.

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Mike,



"Didn't do much important on my Navy stretch helping operate a filling station in the middle of the ocean for super carriers."



That is more than a little inaccurate... For the guys who relied on those fast movers flying off the deck of those carriers... Everything, anything that you or your fellow sailors did to make sure those planes could fly when they were needed was VERY important. Believe me... VERY important! So from me and others like me... Thank you big time.
 
AMEN Brother!!!!!!!!!



I tried to go back for the WAR after I retired from the Navy. They said no.
 
I'M NOT GOING!!!!! I live 5 miles south of Annapolis, MD and I've said many a time I'm not re-upping until the enemy is about 2 1/2 miles from my house!:angry:



JR, they also don't want our older guys refusing to shave every day, spending an inordinate amount of time at the latrine, having to carry more weight in medicine than gear, having to get a supply drop of hearing aid batteries, varicose vein support hose, suppositories, denture adhesive, glasses, etc, etc, etc,...Years ago I could hump almost my body weight but there's not a chance of that anymore.:( And who would we take orders from? Young whippersnappers or even older than us pain in the a$$ farts? And I'm not listening to a twenty-something year old R.O.T.C. 2nd Looie anymore. I don't know why I say anymore because I never really did.:rolleyes:;) Finally what the military wouldn't want is when cocktail hour came around or the B.A.S.S. Classic is on TV or anything else we like and JR says, "to heck with this, I'm going home. C'mon Uncle Billy!":eek::cool::lol:



Uncle Billy - Been there, Done that!
 
Me 2 Billy twice...HA HA Iam sure Prowd of the Boys That are there now..By the way My Grandson Is at Campbell He's doing something with The 101st,,Going with them to Afganastan In May.....JR
 
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