How many USA vets here?

PattyWagon · Apr 10, 2013

I didn't kill anyone. I got to clean up the aftermath of a suicide bomber though. They like to kill themselves. No need to waste the ammo.

PattyWagon · Apr 10, 2013

And BTW, the mountain man gave my commander a hug and cried when the translator told him we weren't there for his field.

londonfog · Apr 10, 2013

gagekko said:
Just because you don't see the end result of your bombs, missiles, and drones doesn't mean Air Force is 100% innocent - but you fly boys/girls do get paid well and stay out of harms way for the most part. I know a guy that works for Lockheed and he doesn't seem to think there is anything wrong with designing missiles to kill more people - to each their own.

And, BTW, the "love it or leave it" speech is for feeble minded with no other argument.... I did my time in the military - most likely seen more horrors than you. So I got just as much right to my opinion.

WOW you actually just tried to compare level of horrors with a person on the internet :shock:

. My argument was not "love it or leave it".. sorry you missed the point. Where did I say or insinuate that you are not entitled to an opinion ???

BarnBuster · Apr 10, 2013

londonfog said:
USAF 22 years retired...Did more good then bad, so I sleep well. People if you think your government is so evil I would suggest you travel to countries like China or North Korea. Please let me know how you feel afterwards

BarnBuster · Apr 10, 2013

PattyWagon said:
Former US Marine here...1st Battalion 4th Marines. 1 tour Afghanistan.I miss my brothers. I do not regret at all joining the Corps. Would I do it over again? Hell yeah. The people of Afghanistan are true peaceful people. All they want is to be prosperous and happy. The same dream we chase. Unfortunately there are the few shitheads that ruin the image.Besides, the reason I'm even here telling you this, even growing. Is because of a fucking huge afghani grow I saw. It changed my life. One humble old man farmed in the mountains all by himself. Now I have a sanctuary to myself just like him.

Thanks, Marine.

Harrekin · Apr 10, 2013

PattyWagon said:
And BTW, the mountain man gave my commander a hug and cried when the translator told him we weren't there for his field.

Im sure you mean he was pleased he survived an encounter with the USMC.

PattyWagon · Apr 10, 2013

Harrekin said:
Im sure you mean he was pleased he survived an encounter with the USMC.

I'm sure he was. We are some scary motherfuckers. Oorah

Harrekin · Apr 10, 2013

PattyWagon said:
I'm sure he was. We are some scary motherfuckers. Oorah

Because you totally should've attacked his country and all.

I mean, they were Saudis that attacked on Sept 11...so go blow up Afghanistan!

And THEN it turns out Bin Laden was living like a pimp, in your ally's country, near their largest military base...in Pakistan!!!

You's were like, TOTALLY on point there.

Major Malarky · Apr 10, 2013

EX British Military...... Same story different Island

PattyWagon · Apr 10, 2013

The President and congress sent us there, not the 18 year old grunts fighting. We just followed orders. Go bash the CIA instead. They get more kills nowadays.

ultraviolet pirate · Apr 10, 2013

its so easy to stand in ones life and judge others. so fucking easy.

kpmarine · Apr 10, 2013

Harrekin said:
Im sure you mean he was pleased he survived an encounter with the USMC.

You know, not that many people that get deployed actually shoot someone; much less kill them. In my unit, the rate was somewhere in the range of 1% actually taking and returning fire. So I'd say plenty of people survive the encounters. In fact, most all of them do live to tell the tale.

Harrekin · Apr 10, 2013

kpmarine said:
You know, not that many people that get deployed actually shoot someone; much less kill them. In my unit, the rate was somewhere in the range of 1% actually taking and returning fire. So I'd say plenty of people survive the encounters. In fact, most all of them do live to tell the tale.

Not the million odd civilians across the Afghanistan and Iraq wars tho.

War on Terror?

Bitch please, its a War OF Terror.

kpmarine · Apr 10, 2013

Harrekin said:
Because you totally should've attacked his country and all.

I mean, they were Saudis that attacked on Sept 11...so go blow up Afghanistan!

And THEN it turns out Bin Laden was living like a pimp, in your ally's country, near their largest military base...in Pakistan!!!

You's were like, TOTALLY on point there.

Because, you know, the Taliban TOTALLY wasn't running Afghanistan and supporting Al-Queda, and Osama TOTALLY wasn't hiding there before he fled to Syria...

kpmarine · Apr 10, 2013

Harrekin said:
Not the million odd civilians across the Afghanistan and Iraq wars tho.

Links? I have never seen a number close to over a million reported as casualties of US troops. On another note; I was under the impression that most of the civvie casualties were a result of bombings and drone strikes. Once again, not the Marines; that's the Air Force.

Harrekin · Apr 10, 2013

kpmarine said:
Because, you know, the Taliban TOTALLY wasn't running Afghanistan and supporting Al-Queda, and Osama TOTALLY wasn't hiding there before he fled to Syria...

You know the Taliban and Al Queda are opposing Islamist factions?

Ironically the Taliban kept Al Queda OUT of Afghanistan.

Derp Derp on your part, "sir".

kpmarine · Apr 10, 2013

Harrekin said:
You know the Taliban and Al Queda are opposing Islamist factions?

Ironically the Taliban kept Al Queda OUT of Afghanistan.

Derp Derp on your part, "sir".

The Taliban kept out the people who helped fight the Russians in Afghanistan(Al-Qaeda)? Got some documentation to back up that claim?

cannabineer · Apr 10, 2013

Harrekin said:
He probably means all the places you've freed the shit out of...only for fundamentalist Islamists to immediately take over.

I don't see any war that fulfills the twin claim: liberating a country and in the last decade. The last country whose liberation we assisted/effected (afaik!) was Kuwait, and that's more than twenty years past now. I would like Hemlock to answer my question. cn

Harrekin · Apr 10, 2013

cannabineer said:
I don't see any war that fulfills the twin claim: liberating a country and in the last decade. The last country whose liberation we assisted/effected (afaik!) was Kuwait, and that's more than twenty years past now. I would like Hemlock to answer my question. cn

He's on drugs.

MAXIMUM respect from me, sincerely to anyone in the service pre 9/11.

Anyone who joined after that, you got conned bitches.

cannabineer · Apr 10, 2013

Harrekin said:
He's on drugs.

MAXIMUM respect from me, sincerely to anyone in the service pre 9/11.

Anyone who joined after that, you got conned bitches.

He's in good, uhh, wait what? ~giggle~ cn

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