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This might help some of you, if you qualify. http://www.military.com/vet... I try to keep up with things that can help us. Nothing worse than a Vet losing his or her "part of the American Dream" , know what I mean? I gotta tell ya, this was a tough one for me. I think of people like: Shepherd Smith (FoxNews), Kieth Olberman (MSNBC), Steve Ducey (FoxNews), Tim Russert (MTP), Terry Mcauliff (HRC Campaign), Joy Behar (The View), Nancy Grace, etc. But it came down to two for me: Kieth Olbermann and John McEnroe Guess who won?
(how about you?) Is it just me, or does this guy sound like Karl the Groundskeeper (Bill Murray) in "Caddyshack"? http://shock.military.com/S... Come to think of it, he works like him too. Every good "red-neck" tool box has at least: 1) A big hammer 2) Bailin wire 3) Duct Tape (or Duck tape if your zip is 08) What's the most important thing in your tool box? (you just saw mine -- colored duct tape -- its great for covering holes in tgts when shooting too -- I like yella) Oh, and next would be my PHD (post hole digger) or pictured fence puller (come along) ……….I think of three vignettes from my life (there are more of course but there are three that really stand out for me) and I realize that I never could be a good racist…… or even a bad one…….No matter how some of the posters on here have attempted to characterize me…… Here’s one of those vignettes from my past: Draper
He was an Army Staff Sgt at Phu Hiep, RVN, black as the ace of spades and big as a house. Really….NFL Lineman big. Now I’m not a little guy but he made me feel like Eddie Haskell when I was around him. He could hump an M-60 all day with two bandoliers of 7.62 (which looked like 5.56 on him) and wanna get wasted and party all night at base camp. I never knew his last name – he was just Draper. Black Hearted Draper as he liked to call himself (much to the Captain's chagrin (especially when the new Army directive came down allowing the “brothers” to quit shaving due to “VN bumps” in the tropical clime) …. But I knew different…
We had an old first shirt (Our Top - SFC) named Whack. Yeah, that was his given name, William Whack. Sgt Whack was old school black (a negro in his vernacular) while Draper was “new black”— both proud men but in very different ways. Whack from within (you just knew) and Draper from without (in your face). I liked em both, in just as different a ways.
One night we were all gettin drunk on Jack Daniels (some chose other things of course) and bennies from the chopper pilot’s flight kits. Benzedrine – you could take a few of those and drink Jack all night long. Yak up a storm and take a few more in the morning and hump all day. Draper didn’t do weed like most of his fellow blacks in VN so our group was just sittin around in our tin roofed hooch, drinkin and commiserating about our day. Whack had been on Draper’s ass like an off-the-rack Brook’s Brothers all day after we had been doing a “hooch AO” inspection and that damn dude told Whack he wanted a new hooch maid. Said the one he had was “too damned ugly” (It really was funny at the time – I had to bite my lip). I had warned Draper not to, it wouldn’t go well [I knew Whack], but you didn’t really tell Draper much of anything ..…..
Well past being prologue, Sgt Whack came down on him like a northern highlands monsoon – I heard him do something I never thought I would – use the “N” word. He told Draper he was the kind of “N” that sat around bitchin about people calling him that, then exerted that same exact kind of prejudice against the gooks (especially the women). Some little black toothed Beatle nut chewin mamasan who shined his boots and washed his jungles for pennies a day, and he wanted a better lookin one for when he woke up in the morning. I listened to every word, and I’ve never heard anyone speak more eloquently about race to this day. Old Sergeant Whack coulda been MLK in my book ….. He actually made a whole lotta sense. He tore Draper a new one in a way I never thought the old fashioned Sarge had in him to do. It was a classic Old School “Negro” vs. New School Black Man. But Draper was one a those guys you either like or don’t, and if you are one of the few who do, you accept him for all his foibles. So I gathered myself and turned to the old volcanic Sarge and just told him Draper was only kiddin and if he hit him (I just ‘knew’ he was fixin to) it wouldn’t end well – for either party…… And I liked em both. To my surprise, he actually listened……. Walked away muttering to himself (something about these new young bucks, gonna screw up everything)….…..
Ever knew anybody that you know does things that are rude, crude, and socially unattractive, but you just like them anyway? Mebbe cause deep down inside you know that there is really good in there? But you also know he’s gonna exhibit his exterior persona no matter what anyway, so you either avoid em like the big orange malaria pills (make ya defecate like a duck), or accept – yay - even like them. I chose the latter for some unknown reason.
Like the time this green weenie (Roger) just in from the world with 364 and a wakeup left, started passin around pictures of his Carla Sue from East Undershirt, Alabama in the hooch and I knew where this was headed. I woulda stopped him but it was too late. This kid was so green you coulda planted him, looked like a young Dick Van Dyke or something…… The picture came around to Draper. Draper put down his Jack bottle, looked at that pic, and you coulda heard a pin dropped on a pillow. Real serious, Draper just looked over at FNG Roger and bellowed: “Damn Newbie, she’s ugly (she was) as hell man. She’s worse than Sam my mamasan!”
Roger was devastated! He was so proud of her and he knew that Draper was, love or hate him, an important guy in our unit. And he somehow instinctively knew that he would be a player in his getting back to the world and Carla someday…… We all roared with laughter, then I felt bad and went over to the FNG and told him I hoped he learned a lesson. Keep Carla in your wallet from now on cherry, K?
Well we drank more and more of that Jack that evening and intermittently went outside to set off slap flares so the heads could blankly stare at them, jaws agape while the Rogers ran over the sand to retrieve the little parachutes; and trading weapons we had picked up on convoys. I had a brand spanking new AK (musta been ARVN soldier’s as it looked like it had never been fired and only dropped once – haha!) I had gotten from a ROK Infantry MSgt for a 45 cal “grease gun” ….. I was gonna have some fun with that sucker next time we rolled out. I had been saving up tons of 45 ACP and couldn’t wait! We were really FUBAR and even more oblivious than normal when all of a sudden the laughter was cut like a KaBar through spam with a dink 82mm chicom mortar round hitting the tin roof a the hooch. I fell to the floor stunned…… Before I could even react I felt like a packed four suiter whose owner just heard reveille and was late for Flying Tiger back to the world. I was wearin one a the heavy flack vests that I had zipped up all the way for some reason and I felt one two by four sized hand grab me around the oversized collar and one on the backside of my fatigue britches, and ten quick steps and chucked like a smallish sack a spuds over the side of some sand bags just outside the hooch! Then this huge mass of humanity flying over those sand bags landing smack next to me. The next two of those 30 mortar rounds that night came right down on top of that tin roof and blew downward right where we had been just a few moments prior. They walked those rounds on down the compound and while it seemed like forever, it was over about as soon as it had begun.
I looked over at this huge black mass of humanity next to me and all I could see were eyeballs and teeth. All I could think of to say (before we ran to our posts) was something lame like: “Thanks Draper….”
He just looked down at me, laughed, then slapped me upside the back of my punkin and said: “[edit.] bruthuh, I couldn’t lose you….. Sgt Whack likes you ….. you probly saved his old black ass today and me from the LBJ, bwahaaaaa!”
It ticked me off that he had clipped the back of my head….. felt like he was treating me like his little brother or something…… as I think back on it, I guess he was. And I didn’t mind…………
So when I have had things that come up in daily life that make me want to dislike black people because of the actions of a few I generally try and do two things: 1) Put myself in their boots and look at the sitrep from their perspective [not an easy thing to do properly BTW] and, 2) Remember the Drapers of this world. Just those two seemingly little things keep me from primer coating all people with that can a spray paint [racial or ethnic prejudice] we all seem to have been issued at supply.
I have a couple other life’s vignettes I always think about too (Priscilla and Royce) I will share down the road if anyone is interested.
A medical miracle? Hardly............ What makes them do it? Dummies? Axe Michelle O............. I’m sorry as I can be, but I’ve just had a snootful of this! I got up to go over to West side ranchos and my wife (who was already up and stirring around) had the tube blaring already, said to me: “Look at those cops kicking those guys! That’s awful!” I said back to her “Yeah but we don’t know from a clip what lead up to what you are seeing honey, always remember that. They had one of their guys murdered a few days before, and we don’t know what the circumstances are!” ….. To which she rejoindered: “Yeah but it wasn’t these guys!”… “OK, fair enough. I’ll take your word for it, but I still say we need all the facts…..” Now, you can call me a “COP Groupie”, a panderer to LE, whatever you like. But I’m sick and tired of the rush to judgement on the other side of the knife blade in these cases. I’ve been on both sides and I know this, I’ve never been mistreated by Cops, and I’ll allow its probably because I WAS COMPLIANT! Yes Sir, No Sir….. Seemed simple to me! So now you can call me an “authority wuss” too…. Go ahead, I could care less. But I live in a silly society now. One that lionizes (and makes increasingly rich) people like “Ice Tea” who years ago came out with a great ( c) rap song about killing a cop, and what do we do? Make him a TV star on a show about cops for Chrissakes! One that puts out video games that allow you to kill a cop. On and on the goofiness goes……. I’m tired of it! After Rodney King I just happened to be having breakfast with Sheriff Bud over to the West of me. I just made a comment about the fact that King might just have deserved it and that those PR-24 wielding cops must not have been really trying to hurt this guy (a really big guy who I always thought favored Karl Malone BTW) and he about bit my head off! He told me they were wrong and should be (would be) punished for their wrong doing in the case! So much for LeoPanfilo’s “Blue Wall of Silence”, eh? I shut my yap and feared I had just ended a great friendship! Even OldBlue on here said “lets wait and see the facts as they come out!”…. Amen to that! But I have to tell ya, when I see these video clips I just have to wonder what lead up to what you are seeing. Just watch some episodes of COPS and see how the prevailing attitude amongst their “clients” is “you lay a hand on me and I’m gonna sue!”……. And I see it the worst amongst so-called minority groups – be they black, Hispanic, whatever. If its what is referred to on here an “08’er” or “Redneck” then its fair game to pile on the offender. If its not, woe be unto you if you take the Cops side (OK Timec here’s your cue to pile on me) or even keep an open mind until the investigation plays out. Of course to the BillyClone’s and Leo1’s, there is no need for that. The investigators are part of the “conspiracy” too and of course the Cops will just “get off”……… BS! If you don’t think Cops are the most scrutinized members of our society today then you have been livin in a cave, under a rock! Every action these guys took will be studied and they will suffer the consequences if they were wrong – you have to know that if you have even an ounce of gray matter…… I remember when I was put into a situation where the public was disenchanted with what we were doing in something called a “police action”…… Sure there were bad guys in the Army – probably a lot more %-wise than now (a bunch of my cohorts were conscripted and didn’t even want to be there in the first place) and the bad one’s actions were brush rollered on to all of us! And by the same sort who now take every op to just blame the Cops first! With all the gangs in effect in today’s world if you don’t think we are at war with the criminal elements in this country then you are firmly ensconced with cranium in sand and 4th point of contact waving in the breeze! And I’ll tell you what – in this war I know which side I’m going to be on! Sure – investigate this incident and prosecute those who are proven to be in the wrong – But man, in this particular war – I KNOW which side I’m going to end up on…… THOSE WE HIRE TO KEEP THE PEACE! So Pan, Billy, Timey, all of you – bring it on …….. I don’t mind! But I’m pushin my chips to the side of those we are so quick to jump on -- those we decided to spend our money on trying to stem the ever increasing tide of scumbags who want to take yer stuff or yer life. We give them the authority to take our freedom or life – and that’s as it has to be in war. Sure -- Lets wait and see all the facts play out – but in the interim why not (if you feel you have to take a side early on) stand in support of our employees -- the Cops! There are some memorials goin on down there even today – why don’t we spend our time supporting those who gave the ultimate sacrifice doing what we hired them to do? All give some, but some gave ALL! Wise up people – show some support to the GOOD GUYS for a change. You’ll be better for it! I’ll get back to my friends now……….. It’s a mooooving experience! I'm seeing this guy on a TV commerical now. I remember the Turnipseeds from down Delano way. They were farmers. Is this guy from that clan? (there were a bunch up around Fresno too) Soldiers Say Porn Ban May Hurt Morale
Stars and Stripes | Seth Robson | May 05, 2008
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the current law that allows the sale of some sexually explicit material on military bases by lowering the threshold required to deem material "sexually explicit." A Department of Defense committee that reviews materials sold on bases ruled last year that magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse are not pornographic. But Broun's Military Honor and Decency Act includes language that could make those magazines eligible for the ban. The prospect of missing out on men's magazines was not welcomed by soldiers at Grafenwöhr. "We all read 'em," said Pfc. Paul Rubio, 31, of Bakersfield, Calif. "There are times we just read 'em for the technological parts like the new gadgets that come out. They have good stories sometimes too." Sgt. Simon Brown, 34, of Daytona Beach, Fla., said men's magazines build morale. "It's not all about the pictures, although 80 percent of it is," he said. Pfc. Greg Smith, 21, of Northboro, Mass., a regular Playboy reader, said soldiers should be allowed to buy nudie magazines at the exchange. "Playboy is good entertainment while you are on the can. They have jokes and good stories," he said. Broun, a Marine veteran, told Newsweek recently that the magazines sold in military exchanges are partly responsible for a rise in sexual assaults in the military and other problems. "Allowing the sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by: escalating the number of violent, sexual crimes; feeding a base addiction; eroding the family as the primary building block of society; and denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad," Broun says on his Web site. The legislation would require the DOD to annually review material that is not currently deemed sexually explicit to determine if it should be prohibited, according to the Web site. Some soldiers say magazines that could be banned are particularly important downrange. Brown deployed to Afghanistan in 2002 and 2005 and is preparing to go to Iraq with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade this summer. When he was in Afghanistan he was one of the first to pick up a new copy of Maxim or FHM when it came out, he said. "It would suck if they ban it," he said. "It's bad enough we are down there to begin with. Taking that away would be like a knife in the chest. I'm not saying I'm depending on Maxim to keep me alive over there, but it helps." Publications such as Maxim and FHM are not named by Broun, but lowering the threshold of the sexually explicit definition might mean such magazines would be targeted for a ban. Some troops in the Pacific region said the proposed legislation would impinge upon their personal freedoms. "They're making it a point of undermining soldiers to almost make them feel like we're back in elementary school," Pfc. Nickolas Sears said Friday at Camp Red Cloud, South Korea. "We're all adults here, and if it's something we want to do, we should feel free to choose as we please." Other than on base, there's no place in South Korea to buy magazines like Playboy, he said. "I believe it's a breach of freedom of speech," said Senior Airman Garrett Deese, 25, of Elk Grove, Calif., who just completed a tour with the 8th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea. He said he wonders whether such a ban would lead to barring other types of magazines lawmakers chose to challenge. He also questioned whether Broun's link between magazines and sexual assaults within the military would stand close scrutiny. At Yokota Air Base, Japan, military spouse Roberta Woolley said she understands the need for balance between rules and individual rights, but said the military has tougher standards than the rest of American society. "It's a good idea," she said of the proposed ban. "I think there's better literature out there.... In the military, we sell cigarettes and alcohol legally. But it's also questionable whether they promote a healthy lifestyle. "I've seen all these magazines, and they don't make men or women intelligent or beautiful. And even though they're hidden, there is still exposure to children as well. It's the parents' responsibility to give ideas about body awareness to their children. I don't think Mr. Hefner presents a positive image of men or women in his magazine." A female soldier at Grafenwöhr -- Sgt. Pou McCall, 23, of Riverside, Calif. -- said men's magazines don't bother her a lot, but she'd support a ban. "What if it was their (soldiers') sisters (in the magazines)? It doesn't take a magazine for sexual harassment to happen but it increases it," she said. Army and Air Force Exchange service public relations manager Judd Anstey said AAFES sold $231,000 worth of Penthouse, Playboy and Playgirl magazines in Europe last year. "Sales of these three titles account for 2.7 percent of total European magazine sales ($8.5 million) at AAFES facilities," he said. The sales accounted for 0.5 percent of worldwide AAFES magazine sales of $46.4 million, he said. Stars and Stripes' reporters Vince Little, Franklin Fisher and Erik Slavin contributed to this report. This video cracks me up! I just wish he'd decide on his figures: http://youtube.com/watch?v=... This is what I get (using aves of course): miles per year 20,000 Actually, I think he's right o this one. Just wish he'd decide on which nos to use. ..............talkin about the SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) to take place at 5 Dogs Range down the road from me this weekend....... He was asked by Emily Moore (didn't she usedta be Valdez?) what his "handle" would be if he was competing in the SASS tourney....... He had nothing............. (not that I blame him on spur of moment) I have a suggestion or two for Mike (good guy BTW - more cowboy'n most) MAD MIKE COLD HARTED MIKE (not that he is....just a handle ;=) ) I used EVIL ERNIE for years. If you were to compete and had to come up with a handle for yerself from the Olde West, what would it be? Example: MEAN MURPH ( {jk} Murph -- just think of Kenny Miller, K?)
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GRAFENWOHR, Germany -- Legislation that would restrict the sale of certain men's magazines on U.S. military bases around the world would be bad for morale, according to soldiers at Grafenwöhr.
