Live Stoner Chat Who's a vet?

[Muddy]

All we need is a Coastie and we'll have every branch covered. I was home ported out of Pearl Harbor, made two WestPacs, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Okanawa. Spent the last 6 months of my enlistment in Subic Bay, PI.

My sincerest thanks to all who have served.

 

[Joe Dirt]

My special thanks to the people who did not serve, but continue to support the guys, wherever they are. It wasn't like that when I was in.

 

[gamin420]

USN Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class from 9/8/99 to 11/14/04. NavMedCenter Balboa San Diego, CA then did my last two years overseas in Bahrain. I would've stayed in longer but problems with alcohol started getting me in trouble. I loved my job and my only regret was not going green side with Marines. I had former roommates and classmates that when to the frontlines; some came back in one piece, some hurt, and some didn't come back at all. Still gets to me knowing that my brothers and sisters are there and I'm here.

 

[toke]

i echo what JD said, so very true JD.

TOKE OUT

 

[Northern Grower]

A big thanks to all of you guys who served and continue to serve. God bless you all!

I was going to say the same..

I really want to thank you all for your service.

It's because of your sacrifice, that i get to have my daily freedoms.

Thank you..

 

[OldGuy]

USN 1979 to 1988. HS-4 on board the USS Kitty Hawk, Constillation, Ranger, and a brand new Carl Vinson out of NAS North Island. Also NAS Barders Point Weapons Department.
Some of the best times of my life.

 

[Monkeypox]

US Army , 93-96 III Corp artillery .

 

[AutoMan]

I proudly SALUTE all of you my brothers for service to our country....Sullivan act negated my enlistment as both bros were in Nam in 67-69...one is now retired USMC ...the other now sick from 'agent orange'.......

 

[oldman]

USAF 1956-1960

It's very hard not to have mixed feelings about war, especially when our politicians have decided that it's our job to police the world. I'm thinking about all the senseless and meaningless deaths, the deaths that should never have happened...... those who died in vain. Had I stayed in the air force I would have been bombing innocent Vietnamese farmers and dropping chemicals on their wives and kids. And now in 2011 we're back doing business as usual with Vietnam.

Defending the USA against foreign aggression as our Founding Fathers intended is one thing, going overseas to control the peoples of the entire world is quite another. Had we not squandered our wealth putting aircraft carriers in every ocean of the world we might not be a bankrupt country now.

Everyone loses in war......

It was General Sherman who told it like it is:

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
William Tecumseh Sherman

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/war_is_cruelty-there-s_no_use_trying_to_reform_it/150093.html

Just think of it, they estimate over 500,000 men were killed in the Civil War, a war Lincoln thought would last 6 months. And as Lincoln later noted, both sides prayed to the same God to save their sons. How bizarre...... what a waste.....

oldman

 

[Moe]

I proudly SALUTE all of you my brothers for service to our country....Sullivan act negated my enlistment as both bros were in Nam in 67-69...one is now retired USMC ...the other now sick from 'agent orange'.......

Dude tell your bro they have just opened up more disability eligibility to more who served in different locations and MOS's if he isnt getting that. If he still isnt getting help have him see someon at the american legion who can put him in touch with a service officer who can help him push for benefits.

US Army 6 yrs. Highest E-5 and O-1 told a bird what the word was and ended up taking a walk. Funny how some Field Grade officers can be such pricks.

From General Smedley Bulter 2 TIME WINNER OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR!

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."