-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 17:14, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:08:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/26/07 14:57, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> This has always confused me: Who does *not* know that the purpose >> of an Army (and, by extension, the Marines) is to "kill people and >> break things"? >> > People who play America's Army?
Good point. >> It's why they give you a rifle, teach you to love it, teach you to >> hit what you aim with it, run you (chanting all the way) into the >> ground, make you crawl thru pig entrails while shooting machine guns >> overhead, and drill you over and over again to stab people with a >> big scary-looking knife. >> > That's gross. I could have sworn it was cow entrails. How could I have been so foolish? Cow entrails are sooo not as gross as pig entrails... >> Of course, the Marines do it better than the Army, but that's >> another story. >> >>> - The Army has the best college benefit plan, throwing in quite a bit >>> more money for someone who goes into a combat specialty than any other >>> service does. So, I am not surprised that there population is much >>> less educated, since many join just for the college benefits. >>> >> IOW, they are mercenaries. >> > Well, everybody fights for *something*, be it money or ideology. But that's what delineates mercenary from (what?). Seriously, no jokes or sarcasm: what's the term for non-mercenary soldier? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF43TIS9HxQb37XmcRAuxqAKC0Nr+/B/Q/dYcDOszaMleBM95PkQCg5Opt TWRScDH8PlG95RE0/fmnwZg= =SuCc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
