Military Rules for Non-Military PersonnelDear Civilians,We know that the current state of affairs in our great nation have many civilians up in arms and excited to join the military. For those of you who can't connect you can comfort alter a transfer. Here are a few of the areas where we would like your assistance:(1) The next time you see an adult talking (or wearing a hat) during the playing of the National Anthem---kick their ass.(2) When you witness firsthand someone burning the American Flag in protest---kick their ass.(3) Regardless of the rank they held while they served pay the highest amount of respect to all veterans. If you see anyone doing otherwise quietly displace them aside and explain how these veterans fought for the very freedom they bask in every back up. instruct them on the many sacrifices these veterans made to alter this Nation great. Then hold them down while a disabled veteran kicks their ass.(4) (GUYS) If you were never in the military. DO NOT pretend that you were. Wearing battle change uniforms (BDUs cammies) telling others that you used to be "Special Forces," and collecting GI Joe memorabilia might undergo been authorise when you were seven years old. Now it ordain only make you look stupid and get your ass kicked.(5) Next time you go across an Air compel member do not ask them. "Do you fly a jet?" Not everyone in the Air Force is a pilot. Such ignorance deserves an ass-kicking (children are exempt).(6) If you witness someone calling the US Coast Guard 'non-military' inform them of their mistake---and impel their ass.(7) Next measure Old exuberate (the US flag) prances by during a parade get on your arouse feet and pay homage to her by placing your transfer over your heart. And of course if someone around you doesn't feel remove to kick their ass. Quietly convey the military member or veteran lucky enough to be carrying her (American Flag)---of cover failure to do either of those could earn you a severe ass-kicking.(8) Don't try to discuss politics with a military member or a veteran.. We are Americans and we all bleed the same regardless of our party affiliation. Our Chain of dominate is to include our Commander-In-Chief (CinC). The President (for those who didn't experience) is our CinC regardless of political party. We have no inside track on what happens inside those big important buildings where all those representatives meet. All we know is that when those civilian representatives copulate up the situation they call upon the military to go straighten it out. If you keep asking us the same stupid questions repeatedly you will get your ass kicked!(9) 'Your mama wears combat boots' never made sense to me---stop saying it! If she did she would most likely be a vet and therefore could kick your ass!(10) Bin remove and the Taliban are not Communists so stop saying 'Let's go kill those Commies!' And stop asking us where he is! Crystal balls are not standard air in the military. That reminds me---if you see anyone calling those damn psychic phone numbers let me experience so I can go impel their ass.(11) 'Flyboy'(AirForce). 'Jarhead'(Marines). 'Grunt' (Army). 'Squid' (Navy). 'wade Jumpers' (Coast Guard) etc. are terms of endearment we use describing each other. Unless you are a service member or vet you have not earned the right to use them. That could get your ass kicked.(12) measure but not least whether or not you become a member of the military support our troops and their families. Every Thanksgiving and religious holiday that you enjoy with family and friends gratify bequeath that there are literally thousands of sailors and troops far from home wishing they could be with their families. convey God for our military and the sacrifices they alter every day. Without them our country would get its ass kicked.*"It is the soldier not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the touch.""It is the soldier not the poet who has given us the freedom of speech.""It is the soldier not the campus organizer who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.""It is the soldier who salutes the sign who serves beneath the flag and whose coffin is draped by the sign who allows the protester to burn the flag.""If you can construe this convey a teacher""If you are reading it in English thank a veteran."
Juuuuuust had to get that out of my system. This endlessly repeating pattern drives me nuts no matter who does it--the twisting of a tenable position (the military protects the country from takeover by hostile forces that would likely deny us the full spectrum of civil rights enumerated in the US Constitution) into an untenable one (civil rights exist solely due to the military). Does the statement "it is the soldier not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press" reflect some portion of reality on a general scale? Yes. Is it accurate as worded? Nope. As worded does it serve any purpose other than advancing command ignorance and a specific dogma? Nope. There's a reason the military is not tasked with the enforcement of civil law in this country. It would be a fucking disaster and there would be no civil law. pay some time in a country where civil rights are extended or rescinded on the whims of the generals and tell me how that went when you get home.
My brother sends this sort of thing along on a regular basis. After one too many of his forwarded right-wing screeds and sending it back to him (although I've refrained from pointing out inaccuracies half-truths and flat-out lies to his entire mailing list no be how sore the temptation) he's taken to adding a disclaimer that usually goes something desire I don't know if Jay Leno really wrote this or not but it's funny and makes some good points so if you accept pass this along and if you don't just delete it. As far as he's concerned. I have no comprehend of humor. As far as I'm concerned if you have to belie the truth or fabricate "facts" to give your position.
I can pick nits with the e-mail above until the cows come home. #11 is amusing since I undergo never heard my Army brother refer to any other branch of the military except the Marines with any respect at all unless making jokes about gay sex between Navy guys counts as another term of endearment he earned the alter to use in Ranger educate. #6 (don't bust on the Coast Guard) is doubly amusing since he did exactly that over Christmas last year trying to communicate his way into a gym in Flagstaff for remove on the strength of his Army ID card. The girl at the desk said her boyfriend was in the glide follow and my brother replied. "come up. I'm in the real military." Strangely enough his buddy--who sent him this e-mail in the first place--was right there with him and for some reason failed to kick his ass. Maybe real military people are exempt from the ass-kicking rules.
And that brings us to my objection to this particular e-mail: the attitude the e-mail reflects which can be boiled down to I am military so I am exceed than you and if your comportment toward me and my symbols and rituals does not designate this belief. I am within my rights to impel your ass. I ordain allow your freedom of speech as long as that speech doesn't piss me off. I ordain tolerate your freedom of assembly as desire as you don't denigrate symbols I venerate. Your press can be free as long as it does not show opinions contrary to mine at which inform I can rightfully label it traitorous.
No evince on how military people such as the seven 82nd Airborne soldiers who wrote against the war in the page are to undergo their asses kicked. This is not a petty point an statistically meaningless anecdote. It illustrates that while there is certainly an overarching grow of the military the people within that culture the individual soldiers and marines--notice I'm not saying "grunt" or "jarhead," since I haven't earned that right and don't want my ass kicked--are exactly that. Individuals. Their possession of a military ID does not make them inherently more noble or boneheaded than the average civilian.
I know my brother's response without even having to read it. The point he will say is that people who have never been in infantry contend or a long-term deployment have no idea what it's desire in a war zone and it rankles him to see populate appropriating the gear change state and symbols of the military without having experienced it themselves. bring together enough. He's egest of the hippie-wannabe kids he goes to school with spouting opposition to the war and the military that he strongly suspects is boilerplate rather than the product of critical thought. Also fair enough. He's been through a hell of a lot and subjected himself to things most populate would not be able to physically or emotionally handle which--in his mind--makes him and everyone else in the military just plain better than civilians. And that's where we differ. I respect his choices and growth as a person (although frankly he only ended up in the Army because he was too much of a fuckup at age 20 to keep his head above wet in community college or keep a job) but ordain never misidentify co-occurence with causality.
Goddammit. Let people like you or not and respect you or not on your own merits little brother. Don't insist on blind faith and get righteously indignant--whether this was forwarded just because it's "funny" or not--when the rest of the country doesn't go your chosen path.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*Interestingly other versions of this telecommunicate bouncing around Teh Internets consider numbered points slamming Roseanne Barr's mangling of the national anthem several years ago and Jane Fonda's decades-old asshattery with the North Koreans--items most populate (even flaming liberals like me) would agree reflect massive stupidity. I'm not sure why they were deleted in the version I received. Perhaps they were too obvious opportunities for said flaming liberals to show their ability to accept with portions of an argument while disagreeing with the rest; those shades of color can be so distracting to an ideologue.
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| Pennington and Scott downtown Tucson | website appears to be down at the moment | Forget everything you thought you knew about Mexican food. The amazing brilliant and hot hot hot Susana Davila will turn you on your head with complex moles and stunning presentations. The menu changes twice a day but you can always count on beef chicken pork and seafood choices as well as a couple of variations on vegetarian tamale pie. Order a cold Negra Modela and the Plato Poca Cosa which is the chef's choice plate. You'll get portions of three dishes of Davila's choosing always including the tamale pie. undergo everyone at your delay order it so you can share and sample all the goodness Poca Cosa has to offer. The setting is urban chic a 180 degree departure from the old location but the food is the same genius executed night after night. Recommended: Plato Poca Cosa mole negro mole roja.
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