(August 27, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Drich Wrote: I was hoping someone would bite.
In other words, you were trolling.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:07 pm)Drich Wrote: I do not care how you served, or even if you did.
It's my observation that you don't care about any facts at all unless you think they're on your side.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:07 pm)Drich Wrote: The point being made is that there is a distinction well with in the ranks of our military that separates combat vets from 'support troops.'
That sounds like something someone who actually served might be able weigh in on with some expectation that they know what they're talking about.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:07 pm)Drich Wrote: And even a further seperation from army regulars and Rangers. Army, from marines. marines from navy, navy from Air Force, and national guardsmen from just about everyone else. If you are truly military you know what I am talking about, and you know there has been a lot of infighting about who does what and how the military would come to a grinding halt and millions of people would die if not for their job/branch. Again not what is being discussed.
Sure, I made fun of marines when I was enlisted. My favorite joke about them was: How do you knock out a Marine? Throw a handful of sand at a brick wall and yell 'hit the beach!'. That doesn't mean it's okay for YOU to call them names. If you were truly military, you know what I'm talking about.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Drich Wrote: What is being discussed are the posers who take pics behind tall concrete walls obviously in a rearward operations base, and repersent themselves are being troops under fire.
What are your qualifications for making that assessment? Photo recon was one of my specialties and I can't get all that from the photo. And you know what one of the things the army does in the middle east? Go on patrol you fucking moron. Where they're at the moment the photo was taken tells you nothing about their combat experience.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Drich Wrote: If it is meant as a joke then that's fine, that is between them and the members of their platoon. If not and they were saying that they were combat troops when they were not, anyone who has anything to do with this country should take offense to that. Because these men are pretending to be something they are not.
You're pretending to know they are pretending to be something they're not and that is something you cannot know.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Drich Wrote: So because it could have happened it did happen?
If there was a God, he should strke you dead for blowing up every irony meter you get within a mile of.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Drich Wrote: ..and you know this how?
The exact same way you know those soldiers weren't combat troops.
(August 27, 2013 at 11:59 pm)Drich Wrote: Faith? Or do you have the proof I was looking for? Oh, that's right you only need proof for all things God. You are willing to believe any possibility out there that says there is no God or that a particular person hated God on blind faith alone.
It's his opinion. Not that you can tell the difference between a claim that you need evidence before it's reasonable to believe it and someone spouting off their feelings.