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Gentlemen, I would like to express a rational opinion and ask a question before
this goes to PARF. which I enjoy reading more than watching the comedy channel.
Notice my post count AND my join date. I've been here a long time, built a nice
3.6 conversion and generally found this place to be a wonderful collection
of varied backgrounds. I feel like I know most of you.
My 20yr old Grandchild is dating a wonderful young man who just left the
USMC. I asked him why he got out. This is what he told me.
After three tours in the sandbox I had to quit while I still have a soul.
You can only kill so much and still have a soul. I almost cried. He said
he asked an english speaking Afghan what he thought it would take
to stop this war. He paused for a moment and said "go home".
The other night I watched a FLIR video from a C130 gunship clearing
a path for what appeared to be a pair of our HUMMVEs. This was
not in a mud hut area. Multistory buildings and the like. Afghans
were swarming towards the road from all directions. Our guys and trucks
have IR strobes on them. You do what you have to do because there you are.It was 20 minutes of unmitigated slaughter! Just a fact, we do what you have
to do to protect our people. You could see people being thrown 100's
of feet by the big gun (105 i believe). You could see the Chinooks finally
find a place to land and get them out, then we destroyed our trucks.
I bet we killed 200 plus.
We have been doing this to them for 16 YEARS and they are fighting
harder then ever.
Now the opinion: We need to find a way out of this mess while WE as
a country still have a soul. I think this is at the heart of a lot of the turmoil
going on in this country. We are losing our soul.
Now the question: If Mexico suddenly developed a technology that allowed
them the ability to wipe us from the air and invade our country, and do to
us what I saw that one plane doing to them. WHEN WOULD YOU STOP
FIGHTING BACK.
I'm not what some in the PARF toilet would call *******. I worked for station
training at USMC air station Cherry Point NC for 15 years. I've deployed with Marine tactical air control squadrons.
I will not post in the toilet as that place is more proof of our losing our soul.
I hope I've offended no one. I felt I had to scream somewhere.
Thanks. Sorry for being so long winded. My post count here is the sum
total of my contribution to the interwebs.
I fear for our country.
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