Our Torture Society

Cypress said:
I think you can take "orders"......

Anyway, I'm not sure there is a "military-type" personality, in order to serve. My 'bro went through officer training corps, and boot camp. And he served basically as a desk jockey. And he was a straight A student, and played chess in high school. Totally cerebral.
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I'm curious as to why IHG wouldn't want me in a foxhole. I'm trustworthy. I wouldn't try to trade him to the enemy to save myself. Most likely.
 
Damocles said:
It was why I went into Intelligence rather than a more combat capacity. There are all types in the service, including many thinkers. It isn't necessarily for everybody, but those whom I met and became friends with were among some of the best people that I have met to this day.

I wasn't a very good "military" person. But I was very good at languages...
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I guess so, you were reading Dostoevsky in Russian.
 
And Pushkin... Kapitanskaya Dochka (The Captain's Daughter - Even more literally translated it would be "The Captain's Little Daughter".
 
IHateGovernment said:
The first 4 weeks or so. We'd be falling asleep while standing in formation.

I think some have advocated doing this for a much longer period. Like several months. I think mental breakdown begins to occur after a while with such a regimen.
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It is the same thing as the torture, break you down and program you to resond instantly to orders. aka training.

Yep pretty much torture.
Must be like club med (comparatively speaking)now from what I hear :)
They have to be a bit nicer to volunteers.
 
uscitizen said:
It is the same thing as the torture, break you down and program you to resond instantly to orders. aka training.

Yep pretty much torture.
Must be like club med (comparatively speaking)now from what I hear :)
They have to be a bit nicer to volunteers.
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usc were you drafted?
 
Darla said:
I'm curious as to why IHG wouldn't want me in a foxhole. I'm trustworthy. I wouldn't try to trade him to the enemy to save myself. Most likely.
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I might have the reason, Can you keep perfectly quiet and not say a word for hours ? While awake now ;)
 
Darla said:
usc were you drafted?
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Yep, and it sucked, I was/am one whom the military life does not go well with. I viewed it more as a prison term than anything else. The price for not being able to afford a college exemption or jump line in the guard.
It can be expensive to be poor.
 
uscitizen said:
Yep, and it sucked, I was/am one whom the military life does not go well with. I viewed it more as a prison term than anything else. The price for not being able to afford a college exemption or jump line in the guard.
It can be expensive to be poor.
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Yeah.

I figured you had been drafted, you don't seem the type who would run over and enlist. That's not an insult!
 
uscitizen said:
I might have the reason, Can you keep perfectly quiet and not say a word for hours ? While awake now ;)
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Not a problem.

If I were laying in a foxhole with an attractive girl, she wouldn't be saying a word. Because we'd be kissing and making out for hours. ;)
 
Darla said:
Ohh I see, just because I'm a girl, I talk constantly?
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No you once said that 300 min of airtime might gwet you thru one weekend of cell phone use :)

But actually based on my time in there Yankees were the hardest ones to keep their traps shut. And it can cost all of the groups lives if one cant keep quiet....
 
Cypress said:
Not a problem.

If I were laying in a foxhole with an attractive girl, she wouldn't be saying a word. Because we'd be kissing and making out for hours. ;)
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You wish, with bullets and mortar rounds all around ? bugs all in your clothes, mud 6 inches deep, wondering if the next 50 feet of ground is mined...ugg another leech, get the zippo out...


We are not talking a weekend in Aruba here now.
 
uscitizen said:
You wish, with bullets and mortar rounds all around ? bugs all in your clothes, mud 6 inches deep, wondering if the next 50 feet of ground is mined...ugg another leech, get the zippo out...


We are not talking a weekend in Aruba here now.
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Yeah, bugs. Cypress lets just dig a hole in the backyard and pretend we're in a foxhole.
 
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