I am attempting to join the ARMY.

[Hornfinger]

why do you want to waste your life?

I cannot think of anything worse or more pointless.

Unless you like killing poor, weaker people than yourself to rob their country of their natural recourses of course.

If you were to look at the rack of ribbons on my uniform you'd see the Humanitarian Service Medal I was awarded for spending a month helping southwest Louisiana rebuild after Katrina. And while I didn't go to Haiti I did spend a week on the flight line loading C130 aircraft much like I will again when I get back to Hood to support the thousands of U.S. service members helping in Japan. I did kill some people in Iraq/Afghanistan, you know the kind of people that strap C4 to down syndrome girls and walk them into open markets, but I can say I don't have barrels of oil sitting in my garage. But you know hornfinger the thing that stands out about my trips to Iraq and Afghanistan is the 100's of humanitarian missions I was involved in such as bringing U.S. doctors to a neighborhood where they treated in excess of 500 people, building a well in a remote village in Afghanistan, helping to install a water purification system in an Iraqi village, handing out bags of food to people and rebuilding schools where we were able to give small children their first backpack with school supplies. And you know Hornfinger when I am not doing things like that I'm teaching young Soldiers a marketable skill, leadership, duty, responsibility, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. You may not like my country's foreign policy and hell I don't blame you. I don't like it either. But to suggest that an individual that chooses to sacrifice much of their time and freedom to be part of something bigger that serves their fellow countryman is a waste is absurd

But I digress, what is that you do for a living again?

I was a fire fighter for 4 years, what of it?

What do I do now? well I don't help my government rob oil off people, and I don't kill people.

RIGHT....I guess thats why the U.S. checking account is at -14 trillion and gas prices here in the U.S. are quickly approaching $4/gallon. Come on man show a little class. No Contest wants to serve his country and myself and others on this sight have dedicated their life to military service. I'm sure I could make some sweeping nefarious generalization about fire fighters or whatever you do now, but that is what I was raised to call being an asshole.

So cuz your gas prices are reaching 4 dollars a gallon you encourage people like no contest to go and join up and go out and kill some people to go get you some cheaper oil. Yeah great stuff. As long as your car drives around and you can get on with your life who gives a flying fuck. Let's some one else die for it.

If you want to serve your country their are much better ways of doing it. If you're a yank start with the real problem which is the federal reserve, that's why your 14 trillion in the hole. And you think fighting all this pointless wars isn't contributing to that debt? If the military really wanted to do something for their country they'd all quit now and do something to take back their country from the banks and the corrupt government. Maybe you could have some real democracy other than this republican/democrat facade which are two parts of the same thing.

Make sweeping statements about fire fighters or musicians or teachers, I don't give a shit what you say about my profession because bottom line I'm not killing someone, and I'm not doing government dirty work.