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the_great_intex  Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts: 1,669
Registered: 2002-6-27 08:18:27
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I serve by posting on ACF and giving you guys, for free, my up to date political opinion and boring daily life occurances
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tillsb  Title: me
Posts: 463
Registered: 2003-7-24 20:45:26
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I still think my definition is the best
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
Posts: 2,359
Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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Date Posted:
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I'm a veteran because I get a retirement check from the Navy every month and I use the VA medical system.
I, like the over whelming majority of all people who ever served (even in war time) never saw combat. I taught math and operated nuclear power plants.... and wouldn't have been a lot of help in combat unless you wanted to parse out some differential equations or perform some PMS on control boards while getting shot at.
I also got to move around a lot, even when I didn't really want to do so, was away from my family for months at a time, living in cramped, ugly, and uncomfortable quarters, giving up my privacy and freedom to just do what the hell I wanted for decades, always on call...every second of every day for decades, couldn't just say "screw this" and do what I wanted, I had to be an adult all the god damn time....and I was always under scrutiny, always had to be aware that everything I did and said was not only about me, it was about the Navy and the USA.
I didn't do it for you, any of you. Didn't do it for my family, or for some notion of duty. I did it because it was my god damn job and what I signed up for. And I got paid well, and continue to get paid well and get some pretty awesome medical care to boot for doing that job.
I couldn't care less whether anyone is impressed or thankful for what I did. Like I said, I didn't join or stay in for all those years for any of them. Even with all the crap I had to put up with that people who never served will never even start to understand, it was a great job and I miss the hell out of it at times. Of course, most of the time I don't.  |
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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I registered with the Selective Service, they didn't call. I signed that check too.
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Fozzie_Bear Posts: 2,490
Registered: 2001-12-20 01:43:43
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To be a veteran you sign up
To be a war veteran you sign up and serve in a conflict (any role).
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Acery  Title: Board Manager
Is that code?
Posts: 236
Registered: 2002-8-22 10:19:32
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Date Posted:
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ikkoikki posted:
-Rally- posted:
ikkoikki posted:
You're not a veteran of combat. You're a veteran of something, but that something is not combat.
There is no distinction, either you are a veteran or you're not. I am a veteran of the United States Navy plain and simple, just like those in the Middle East will be when their time is done.
What do marines think of you navy boys who've never seen combat, I wonder. You're a veteran of swabbing the poop deck, but when we need someone to commit grisly murder with frightening efficiency we'll call the real veterans.
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aon_mixed Title:
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Posts: 2,317
Registered: 2002-8-19 07:30:30
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Definition of a veteran. |
I wouldnt wish upon anyone the title of "war veteran"
the baggage that comes with it sucks ass.
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uglydwarf Posts: 129
Registered: 2005-2-4 08:37:07
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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i served 3 years army, late 84 to 87, 5 in the national guard after that, all peacetime. the last year in the guard was at the start of gulf war one. my unit never deployed. while i served, i do not consider myself in the same league as those who served in a combat zone. my sister on the other hand, while in the air guard in a A10 unit was sent to iraq two tours, kuwait one, and afganistan one. she may be a bit of a space cadet, but she qualifies as a war vet.
and a correction-
My
A**
Rides
In
Naval
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they are also
Uncle
Sam's
Misguided
Children.
jarhead, gyrine, and "hey dumba**! can also be used. 
Acery posted:
ikkoikki posted:
-Rally- posted:
ikkoikki posted:
You're not a veteran of combat. You're a veteran of something, but that something is not combat.
There is no distinction, either you are a veteran or you're not. I am a veteran of the United States Navy plain and simple, just like those in the Middle East will be when their time is done.
What do marines think of you navy boys who've never seen combat, I wonder. You're a veteran of swabbing the poop deck, but when we need someone to commit grisly murder with frightening efficiency we'll call the real veterans.
MARINE
Men
Arriving
Rapidly
In
Navy
Equipment
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Lanacan  Title: Random, Crazy, Mental....
Posts: 789
Registered: 2002-2-19 17:27:59
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Date Posted:
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nvm not worth it... you go ACF.
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ikkoikki Posts: 1,964
Registered: 2009-2-8 10:34:47
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Date Posted:
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HAHA^, I saw what you posted. That was about to be trolled hard
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