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Agreed. Thank you very much, Steve.Red Robin said:Steve, thanks for serving. I appreciate it very much.
Agreed. Thank you very much, Steve.Red Robin said:Steve, thanks for serving. I appreciate it very much.
Steve said:Were you pulled out of one hot spot and sent to probably the most dangerous area in the world for an American solider.
no I wasn't a soldier, I was on a mine hunter and transfered to a mine sweep, ..
a hunter finds the mine area.......a sweep eliminates the mine threat....
I earned my VA benifits the hard way.....
Happy go lucky said:Dis you have went to a new low!!! Havinf a confrentation with one that has fought for our country and saying he didn't see the "REAL" war like we have in Iraq? How dare you tell anyone what they have seen or not seen in a combative situation? You are a true liberial and just hate war, fine but don't knock anyone who has seerved this country in any capacity!!!!
I thought you supported the troops but not the war? You don't show support for a board member that served having a hard time believing you suppport anything to do with the military. Also don't forget these people who have an extended duty joined with free will to protect and serve. Things change and all employers make changes as needed. This striker brigade is being called into more duty to save lives, as they are battle tested and beats bringing in "fresh" new troops who don't have the combat action seen as the ones that are staying. I'm sure some are p****d, but that is part of being in the military and protecting and serving. There is no 9-5 in WAR!
You can bash the Bush admin as you like free country, but don't take out your hostilitys of this war on the very people who serve, that is as low as one can get, a line no one should cross. I'm betting if your old enough you probably where a vietnam protester? The very people who took out there anger on that war on the people that served in my book should leave the US and never return, NO different today Dis. So calm down and pick your battles wisely.
Steve said:Dis seems to only support troops that support her agenda,....
she insults sailors,....yet, ignores the fact that many have a important part of every victory.....
a very close friend, a sailor, father, Christian and stout republican, was in falluga with the Marines, and saved many of thier lives.....
I like to see her critize him the way she did to me "face to face"....
MEM:.....my take on Dis.... a sad divorced Ex wife of a true soldier......one who didn't want to sacrifice while he deployed for training,
by her writing is is clear she never served.......
You're so sensitive, Steve. Rolling Eyes Will you, honestly, compare your life on a mine sweeper with an Infantryman's life in Iraq?
because today those guys are escorting conveys, with or without armored humVs. HumVs, for those that don't know are basically improved Jeeps.
Listen, anyone who compares the life of a modern US sailor to the life of a grunt (infantryman) knows there's no similarity.
The Combat Action Ribbon is a personal military decoration of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, and which is awarded to those who, in any grade including and below that of a Captain in the Navy (or Colonel in the Marine Corps), have actively participated in ground or surface combat.
The Secretary Of The Navy approved the CAR (Combat Action Ribbon) as an exception to policy for several ships that operated north Of 28.30N and west Of 49.30E from 1991-01-17 to 1991-02-28:
* USS Adroit (MSO-509),