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Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. |
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On 7/2/2012 2:51 PM, jps wrote:
Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. Wouldn't you like take this opportunity to thank a vet for his service? Don't be bashful. Ill wait |
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On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote:
Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. |
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On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. |
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On 7/2/2012 3:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. .... and turned every other country over there against us... |
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On 02/07/2012 1:00 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. Wouldn't you like take this opportunity to thank a vet for his service? Don't be bashful. Ill wait I do. Takes courage to join a system to fight for coutnry when you know they will let you down in the end. -- Liberal-socialism is a great idea so long as the credit is good and other people pay for it. When the credit runs out and those that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but debt and discontentment. |
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On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote:
On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. -- Liberal-socialism is a great idea so long as the credit is good and other people pay for it. When the credit runs out and those that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but debt and discontentment. |
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On 7/2/12 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Your "suspicions" won't lead to you to any conclusions that are valid. I wasn't drafted. My draft board knew of my whereabouts in this country. Therefore, I was not a draft dodger. I know you are not too bright, but the reality is that only a small percentage of age-eligible males was "drafted" during the years I could have been drafted. |
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On 7/2/2012 4:32 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Your "suspicions" won't lead to you to any conclusions that are valid. I wasn't drafted. My draft board knew of my whereabouts in this country. Therefore, I was not a draft dodger. I know you are not too bright, but the reality is that only a small percentage of age-eligible males was "drafted" during the years I could have been drafted. The way you tell it there was a very small window of time you were draft eligible. I doubt if they they thought they could use you for anything anyway. |
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On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... |
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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:32:29 -0400, X ` Man
wrote: On 7/2/12 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Your "suspicions" won't lead to you to any conclusions that are valid. I wasn't drafted. My draft board knew of my whereabouts in this country. Therefore, I was not a draft dodger. I know you are not too bright, but the reality is that only a small percentage of age-eligible males was "drafted" during the years I could have been drafted. I just spent several days in Ontario. Lovely folks, nothing at all like this hooligan calling himself Canuck57. I suspect he's an outcast even among his "friends." |
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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait
wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. |
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On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... |
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On 7/2/2012 9:30 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... I'll bet JPS didn't |
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On Jul 2, 9:55*pm, jps wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:32:29 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Your "suspicions" won't lead to you to any conclusions that are valid. I wasn't drafted. My draft board knew of my whereabouts in this country. Therefore, I was not a draft dodger. I know you are not too bright, but the reality is that only a small percentage of age-eligible males was "drafted" during the years I could have been drafted. I just spent several days in Ontario. *Lovely folks, nothing at all like this hooligan calling himself Canuck57. *I suspect he's an outcast even among his "friends." Canuckles lives in Alberta.....or at least he did. |
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On 7/2/12 9:30 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... Volunteer for what? |
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On Jul 2, 10:30*pm, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? *Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? *If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving to get a whacko deferment. |
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On 7/2/12 10:07 PM, North Star wrote:
On Jul 2, 10:30 pm, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving to get a whacko deferment. My guess is that Little****Snotty was too young to be drafted for Vietnam, and that war was pretty much the end of the draft. If he "volunteered," he probably was rejected for any number of reasons, including his ponytail. |
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On 7/2/2012 10:17 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 7/2/12 10:07 PM, North Star wrote: On Jul 2, 10:30 pm, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving to get a whacko deferment. My guess is that Little****Snotty was too young to be drafted for Vietnam, and that war was pretty much the end of the draft. If he "volunteered," he probably was rejected for any number of reasons, including his ponytail. Whatever harry, I volunteered, you ran... |
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On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- He probably ended up with a high draft number. |
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On 7/2/12 10:23 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 10:17 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 10:07 PM, North Star wrote: On Jul 2, 10:30 pm, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving to get a whacko deferment. My guess is that Little****Snotty was too young to be drafted for Vietnam, and that war was pretty much the end of the draft. If he "volunteered," he probably was rejected for any number of reasons, including his ponytail. Whatever harry, I volunteered, you ran... No, little****..."ran" implies I took steps to avoid the draft or "hid" from the draft board. I did neither. I registered, and when I moved, I informed the draft board of my whereabouts. I simply never got a notice. And what happened when you volunteered, little****? You were turned down, right? |
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On 7/2/2012 10:23 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 7/2/2012 10:17 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 10:07 PM, North Star wrote: On Jul 2, 10:30 pm, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... Yeah right...you showed up in your mother's dress ranting and raving to get a whacko deferment. My guess is that Little****Snotty was too young to be drafted for Vietnam, and that war was pretty much the end of the draft. If he "volunteered," he probably was rejected for any number of reasons, including his ponytail. Whatever harry, I volunteered, you ran... They saw his yella streak and set him aside. |
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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:30:45 -0400, JustWait
wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... To do what? What branch? For how long? Did they accept you and why? |
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 19:05:32 -0700 (PDT), North Star
wrote: On Jul 2, 9:55*pm, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:32:29 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Your "suspicions" won't lead to you to any conclusions that are valid. I wasn't drafted. My draft board knew of my whereabouts in this country. Therefore, I was not a draft dodger. I know you are not too bright, but the reality is that only a small percentage of age-eligible males was "drafted" during the years I could have been drafted. I just spent several days in Ontario. *Lovely folks, nothing at all like this hooligan calling himself Canuck57. *I suspect he's an outcast even among his "friends." Canuckles lives in Alberta.....or at least he did. Is that where they send the right wing malcontents? Based on his claptrap, he must be pretty far north, as in permafrost. |
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On 7/3/12 4:04 PM, jps wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:30:45 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... To do what? What branch? For how long? Did they accept you and why? He surely was not accepted...even with military standards at their lowest levels. |
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m... On 7/3/12 4:04 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:30:45 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... To do what? What branch? For how long? Did they accept you and why? He surely was not accepted...even with military standards at their lowest levels. ----------------------------------------- Lots were rejected. When I went for my draft physical, flat feet got a couple, bad eyesight got a few. Coworker was rejected after he got to training as he was over height. If you had larger than size 15 shoe, you were out. they do not have the supplies to clothe over and undersize people, etc. |
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On 7/3/12 9:21 PM, Califbill wrote:
"X ` Man" wrote in message m... On 7/3/12 4:04 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:30:45 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... To do what? What branch? For how long? Did they accept you and why? He surely was not accepted...even with military standards at their lowest levels. ----------------------------------------- Lots were rejected. When I went for my draft physical, flat feet got a couple, bad eyesight got a few. Coworker was rejected after he got to training as he was over height. If you had larger than size 15 shoe, you were out. they do not have the supplies to clothe over and undersize people, etc. Or om justsnot's case, underbrained. |
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m... On 7/3/12 9:21 PM, Califbill wrote: "X ` Man" wrote in message m... On 7/3/12 4:04 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:30:45 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 8:56 PM, jps wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:36:59 -0400, JustWait wrote: On 7/2/2012 4:25 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2012 1:11 PM, Oscar wrote: On 7/2/2012 3:03 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 7/2/12 2:51 PM, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. The negative residue emanating from the Bush Administration never ends. I think our military forces in Iraq and now Afghanistan are wasting their lives, but I feel badly for their sacrifices and those of their families. We don't take care of them properly upon their return home, and that may be the ultimate tragedy. Can't you morons take responsibility for your own ****. Your boy escalated Afghanastan. I suspect X-Man was a coward draft dodger. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner... WTF were you doing at the time, sucking your thumb? Wiping your poop all over your crib and the walls? Did you volunteer when you were of age? If not, STFU. I did volonteer, so **** off... To do what? What branch? For how long? Did they accept you and why? He surely was not accepted...even with military standards at their lowest levels. ----------------------------------------- Lots were rejected. When I went for my draft physical, flat feet got a couple, bad eyesight got a few. Coworker was rejected after he got to training as he was over height. If you had larger than size 15 shoe, you were out. they do not have the supplies to clothe over and undersize people, etc. Or om justsnot's case, underbrained. ------------------------------------------------------ could also describe your pscyh profile. |
America, the beautiful...
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:51:46 -0700, jps wrote:
Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. Wonder why 'Bama just stays and stays? |
America, the beautiful...
On 7/6/2012 4:38 PM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:51:46 -0700, jps wrote: Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the military’s suicide rate has continued to climb, hitting a 10-year high in 2012, even though U.S. forces are almost entirely withdrawn from Iraq. As bad as that sounds, it gets worse: Those figures only account for active duty soldiers, and not soldiers who have returned to private life. If Mullen is correct, then the problem of military suicides is even worse than previously known. “If I’m a 5-year-old boy or girl in the family of one of these deploying units for the army whose average deployment was 12 months at a time, and my dad or mom – but mostly my dad – has deployed at this pace, I’m now 15 or 16 years old, and my dad has been gone three, four or five times,” Mullen explained during an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend. “And my whole conscious life, from the time when I was 5 and I started to figure out that there was something out there, my whole conscious life has been at war. The United States has never, never experienced that before. And we see incredible stresses on families.” War provides an excellent return for the 1% who have investments in military hardware, not so much for the rest of us. Wonder why 'Bama just stays and stays? I think George had a removal strategy for Iraq all mapped out. Bama is going to have to figger out Afghanistan on his own. |
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