Riding back to Cincinnati on the Greyhound bus I absentmindly studied my ticket which had a recruitment ad for the National Gaurd printed on it. I thought, maybe I should enlist
( Read more... )
The marines look for people to kill, the army sends 5000 people to a couple spots and they drive back and forth between them, the air force takes care of their planes, and the navy, I really don't know what they do. From my limited experience with them, the marines are gung ho, the army just annoying, and the air force is anal. The marines give almost everyone a gun they may have to use. The army gives almost everyone a gun but it's just for show, and the air force only gives guns to on duty cops (a wise choice I think). But in all of them, for every one person put in a position where there's even a remote risk, there's ten people sent along with them to make sure that that one person isn't paid enough, that his food is just edible (I actually like it), that his pillow is lumpy but sanitary, that his blankets are scratchy, that his tent is leaning but not falling, that the pool table is off balance, and that he only gets exactly fifteen minutes on the phone. At my base in Iraq, over half the army guys were "unemployed", they were
( ... )
it's your frame of mind that needs changing... not your situation...and if you didn't mind being a machine you wouldn't be complaining in the first place.
Comments 19
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment