Comments on: Link of the Day: Satire – The Irony of Being an American Soldier http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/ Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. Tue, 21 May 2013 17:54:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Apostic http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-412779 Apostic Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:46:14 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-412779 9. CarolyntheMommy

Heh. Yeah, you and about jillion other shellbacks. This stuff is just too enteraining to keep to one’s self.

]]> By: CarolyntheMommy http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-412643 CarolyntheMommy Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:35:10 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-412643 Apostic, I broke the first rule of the shellback club. You never never never never talk about the shellback club!

]]> By: Ernie Loco http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-412321 Ernie Loco Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:07:14 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-412321

Nothing’s more efficient at killing people and destroying things on a massive scale than communism.

True, but they mostly kill their own citizens, not the enemy.

]]> By: Matt Musson http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-412129 Matt Musson Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:34:05 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-412129 It is also important to understand that there are plenty of recruits who are mentally ill – before the join the military
and before they are sent to a war zone.

]]> By: Apostic http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-411531 Apostic Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:21:18 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-411531 I, too, am a shellback. And I seem to recall being told not to tell outsiders about it. (Holds as much weight as the White House saying don’t photoshop their pictures.)

Regarding being active during the Cold War: During the late ’90′s, I was a full time student at a college in CA, and I’d sometimes get into a conversation with another student who was convinced the economic boom at the time was due to President Clinton’s leadership. “No,” I’d say, “we are living in a post war economic boom.” “Which war?” they’d ask, “the Desert Storm one?” “No, the Cold War. Did you miss it? Sometimes I do.” Funny thing is, it seems like some people in the former Soviet Union have been missing it, too….

]]> By: CarolyntheMommy http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-411208 CarolyntheMommy Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:50:11 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-411208 Oooh. I’m getting a mental image of a ginger King Neptune going by code name: Jimmy. Rawr.

I can’t say it was the most exciting day that everyone had: I still had a full head of hair at the end of the day and nothing with a blow-up doll was involved.

]]> By: Jimmy http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-411078 Jimmy Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:09:29 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-411078 CarolyntheMommy, as possibly the only shellback among us, you are commanded by King Neptune to write-up your crossing and submit it to Harvey.

]]> By: CarolyntheMommy http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-411025 CarolyntheMommy Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:20:13 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-411025 I didn’t serve in the Navy but I did become a shellback and pay the necessary dues to Poseidon. I think that earns me some sort of street credit. If that doesn’t then you should at least appreciate that I was able to convince 3 ultra libs with me that there is a piece of twine in the ocean at 0 degrees latitude to indicate where the equator lies.

]]> By: 1richard http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-410905 1richard Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:38:29 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-410905 Yep… realized that while I was doing it.. The wall was still up. Brezhnev was still alive.. The irony was on a grand scale.

]]> By: Apostic http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/02/link-of-the-day-satire-the-irony-of-being-an-american-soldier/comment-page-1/#comment-410839 Apostic Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:47:36 +0000 http://www.imao.us/?p=34984#comment-410839 Active duty military service also allows one to see

1) What it’s like to go to prison, courtesy of Navy boot camp, and

2) What fully implented socialized medicine is like, and how it isn’t a step up for a society. (Do you have a fever? Motrin. Break your arm. Motrin. Hatch slam on your hand? Motrin. )

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