@Guerrilla:
But you see this I understand unlike another USA citizen. Becoming a soldier is officially signing your right to be mentally or physically exhausted, your right to go wherever you want, your right to eat whatever you want, your right to not take orders today, your right to be grumpy (don’t know why anyone would be but…), etc.
I UNDERSTAND THAT IS WHY I DON’T PLAN ON JOINING UP! But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect our boys and girls, in fact I think they outweigh several civies in there lines of work but probably some would disagree.
GG
That’s your privalege. No one says you have to sign up for service. (I personally espouse the theory that you should have to serve for two years before you can vote, but that’s a personal opinion and I understand the arguements for and against it.)
@Imperious:
Can’t you just catch something and BBQ it? or is that against geneva too?
No, it violates PETA and we don’t want to get in trouble with them!
@Zooey72:
There are certain things that they are not going to get. I never served, but was in ROTC and had basic training and officer training in college, so I have SOME idea (although not much, admittedly). But when I got back from basic my family thought they turned me into a savage from my new eating manners. No matter how large the meal, I had it eaten in about 2 minutes. On the plane back I remember I stopped at a Burger King at the airport, cuz I REALLY wanted a double whopper. Asked me if I wanted a drink with that, my respose was Hooh!
It’s a different life, and hard to explain to people who have never been exposed to it.
Yea, eating fast is a motto. We always said “eat it before someone else does!” because literally, if it was on your plate past the 120 second mark, you were EXTREMELY lucky!
And yea, I remember my first day out of basic combat training. I went to McDonald’s and I musta been menacing enough to scare the clerk into giving me a hamburger, a small fry and a chocolate shake, even at 8AM. I wasn’t getting some frilly cra-sand-which. (Spelling intentional.)