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Official B.S. Thread
PaulW:
--- Quote from: Sandbox Sailor on September 24, 2009, 06:14:10 PM ---wow sounds like that sucks. working in a garage is great. even better in the summer. wearing long sleeves, jeans, and work boots. coming back from a test drive when it's 90 degrees out, in a shop with NO ventilation, and the engine bay is 500 degrees, trying to bury your hands down in the back of the engine to unplug a sensor. yup wrenching all day long everyday is the life. hmmm being on a boat all day long must suck though. having the cool breeze from the ocean, not being stuck in the same place all the time, being able to move around, the surroundings change all the time, yup the navy must really suck. makes me glad i wrench every day. oh did i mention the arthritis, bad shoulder, carpull tunnel, hearing loss, or poor circulation in my feet?? how about the 70k dollars worth of tools i had to buy? yup wrenching all day long everyday is great. it's the best job ever. well at least after doing it for 11 years, i've gotten a promotion to head mechanic and now i make 38k a year.....hooray i'll retire in style!!
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Oh, and by the way, if this is the life, why didn't you sign up?
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diabetes. i wasn't accepted, not even for coast guard. i've tried. i'd love for nothing better then to have been able to serve my country. my country just would not allow me to.
Seabee_BUC:
Hmmm...Let's see where I can contribute to this interesting topic... >:(
-Jump back to FEB 28th, 2003. It's my wife's birthday and I'm leaving for war.
-Mar 17th, I'm on the edge of the Iraqi border and the chemical alarm goes off, and we can hear missiles taking off from miles away and see the flame trails stream through the sky as the US begins it's initial bombardment of Baghdad. And we're heading right to the same area where the missiles are heading!
-Our battalion spends the next four months building bridges for the Marines to make their assault: dodging 12 yr. olds with grenades, minefields, and well within range of enemy mortars-because we damn sure had to take cover more than once because they decided to try to destroy the bridge we were building.
-Fast forward to 2006 and I'm 1 month into a new shore duty and I'm sent off to Africa for yet another 6 month tour in a terrorist ridden region of Ethiopia and Tanzania, driving into villages where the streets are LINED with over 100 or more people; each with an AK-47.
Paul, you could work 90+ hours a week and still have it easy...
B52BUFF:
diabetes. i wasn't accepted, not even for coast guard. i've tried. i'd love for nothing better then to have been able to serve my country. my country just would not allow me to
Do you volunteer, or do you just sit around saying "Woe is me"? So you couldn't make it into any of the services, you could have served your community. I served in the Air Force during the first Gulf War. I was never sent overseas. I didn't have a wife and kids then and the base I was at didn't need to deploy. The B52's would take off from Griffiss and fly half way around the world where they would deliver their presents and then a few sorties later would return. Even when I went into the CT Air Guard 10 years later and 9/11 happened I was activated to stand watch over a radar facility. There were good days and bad but nothing like what those who deploy went through. When I wasn't on duty I was volunteering with Ledyard Fire Company. Most of them weren't military but they all were serving their communities. Some of them had medical conditions that prevented them from going into the service but they still served, with honor, their communities. I have walked into burning buildings for no pay. I have been covered in blood from the waist down caring for someone who fell asleep at the wheel and folded himself in half, for free. So don't tell me that because you have diabetes you can't do anything. My grandfather had a medical condition that prevented him from going into the military, so He worked in the Norfolk Naval shipyards. One last thing, don't say you "even tried the Coast Guard" like they are some pushover organization. They don't have nearly the resources the other services do and they still get the job done and sometimes under worse conditions. There is always a way to give back to the community and whining about having diabetes isn't one of them!!! >:(
Tsunami:
i also was not accepted because of medical issues, but i do as much as i can for my local communities, helping out at shelters, donating time and money to and raising awareness for different causes. small things make a huge difference, not for the people doing the acts, but the people recieving them. i have no job and no money, i am still trying to find work, but in my spare time, i help raise over $1000.00 for the boston aids walk or put in 50+hours per week making sure the fire victims from the peach tree apartments have quality clothing, food, blankets, toiletries and other things, not to brag, but my point is that weather serving over seas or at home, do something more than sit around with the "END OF THE WORLD" complex... WOE IS ME
footman:
I like pizza ;D
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