I'm sorry paul, thats a bit over the line there. Sure being a full time mechanic isnt a walk in the park and it reaks havoc on ones body. I've watched it tear away at the backs, shoulders and necks of many friends and family members, and the pay is definatley not woth the work. But until you can say to me or any other Sailor, Marine, Airmen, Soldier, or Guardsman that you have had to spend more than a few days away from the family (that you get to see EVERYDAY), or work in a job that could at any point, kill you because of shear negligence, or becuase your buddy forgot to put the safety on his weapon, or because some bastard jihadist placed an IED in front of a combat convoy, that just happened to kill every one in the humvee except you, then you have no right whatsoever to tell me or any other service member that we have it easy. The day i graduated boot camp, a lady called me a baby killer. When my best friend came home in a casket form Iraq on 14 November, 2005, there were people picketing against the US military out side of the cemetery. Me, cheifkp, kirk, sandbox sailor, one eye, cheekbone, deuce, gearhead, and many other members of this club, plus the other 5000 sailors and marines on this base alone work or have have worked day in and day out, side by side with systems that could kill us and the other 149 crew members on our boats in an instant, or have with out flinching, put themselves at the wrong end of an enemys AK-47 and worked in harms way to the truest form. Your job is hard. Ours is harder. We go to sea and deploy to battle zones everday of the year with out regards to school play schedules or work holidays or when our babies are due. When we bitch about our jobs the few times we do, we have the right to do so with out anyone making so much as a hint to a remark about how easy it must be for us "military types". So Mr. PaulW, please for further notice, i recommend you ommit your comments as to how easy you think we have it, or else you may end up pissing a whole lot of people off that you already know you are treading on thin ice with.