no bilge rat, you are the slobbering half-wit for going where it is unsafe.
trust me, half-wit, NO place on the planet is entirely unsafe. trust me also,
half-wit, when I tell you that should you be a stupid enough ****ing idiot to
place yourself repeatedly in extremely dangerous positions where you need a
weapon, you are going to crack up.
even in war, tense moments are far fewer than the movies and news magazines
would have you civilians believe. Let me tell about the time I read 14 pages
of a 15 page article in Time about a ferocious battle waged for several days.
I was indeed glad to have missed that battle, for my fellow Marines were taking
a pasting, but pulled through. On page 14 I learned the battle had taken place
exactly at the location I had been at for three months and somehow none of us
noticed. (keep in mind I was in field artillery, and artillery ALWAYS knows
when there is action anywhere with range of our cannon. We cause the action
amongst the other guys.)

(Bilgeman)
Date: 10/15/2004 10:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

jaxashby's war story:

-they weren't actually pirates and they didn't actually make it, but they
were in fact carrying AK-47's backed up by mortar, rockets, and at one point
with heavy artillery, and there were thousands of them. The closest a bullet
ever came to my head was about six inches (bullets at 6 inches make a
different
sound from bullets at 12 inches which is different from two feet from 5 feet
from 10 feet, etc). Did get some shrapnel (a piece of which I still carry)
but
that was from a mortar, which I except no pirate would be carrying, so it
doesn't count.-

Bilge-I'll wager that you were holding something a little more lethal than a
charged 2.5 inch firehose, though.

Unfortunately for us professional mariners, the various "gun control" laws
do
NOTHING more than leave us with a hose, you slobbering half-wit.

GFY


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