Military - December 2006

2006-12-09 10:22:37 · 16 answers · asked by Jerry 2

I don't mean any decrepit old buddies of Adolf Hitler who might still be alive, nor those tossers who like to dress up in SS Uniforms once a year for a rally on Der Furher's Birthday.

After the War many former Nazis fled, along with bundles of cash. There aim was to secretly pursue the dream of an Aryan race and they had both the funding amd the organizational skills to do it.

So what happened ? Is there a secret Nazi network ?

2006-12-09 10:14:23 · 19 answers · asked by Rock Goddess 2

I want to join the Coast Guard but I have terrible vision. I have been waiting until I can get eye surgery because I obviously won't be able to swim with glasses on. A recruiter I talked to said I would probably have to wait to get surgery but said it as if she wasn't really sure.

Has anybody been through who can tell me if I woud be allowed to wear contacts and goggles. I really really, want to join but this is keeping me from it. There must be a way because how did people do it years ago?

I need concrete answers please. No guessing

2006-12-09 10:06:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 10:05:05 · 17 answers · asked by tommy 1

when your senior officers are in civies

2006-12-09 10:01:25 · 12 answers · asked by . 6

what is wrong with middle east that they want to change so much.they have their cultures, im sure if they wanted to be westernized they would have did it.

2006-12-09 09:45:13 · 3 answers · asked by Video Phone 4

2006-12-09 09:43:05 · 2 answers · asked by bowlingcap 2

I am 17 and want to joing the US Navy. I don't know whether I should enlist before or after college, but I'm leaning towards enlisting now. So do ya'll have any suggestions as to what ratings to look out for? Is it better to enlist straight after high school or do ROTC in college?

2006-12-09 09:32:58 · 9 answers · asked by bowlingcap 2

what is the war on iraq really for? and why target muslims round the world for some people that blew up the twin towers?because the pope rapes little children do people judge catholic's?and because people that r christians robbed banks do they judged christianity?and why do muslim women get looked at strange? is it because u cant c whats underneath? whats the real reason for all this bloodshed and racisim?

2006-12-09 09:32:06 · 15 answers · asked by Video Phone 4

(i am curious because i just found out that i am spaniard as well all this time i thought i was full mexican no wonder i am light for a mexican LOL!!!)

2006-12-09 09:31:39 · 6 answers · asked by Paul C 1

i'm planning to be a fighter pilot in either the Air Force, Navy, or Marine Corps when I get older, so could anyone tell me what the qualifications are? i especially need to know what is the worst eyesight you can have and be accepted if you get the laser surgery.

2006-12-09 09:21:59 · 0 answers · asked by raptor444 2

Be safe and hope you get home soon

2006-12-09 09:10:28 · 6 answers · asked by ? 4

"The Foreign Ministry on Thursday delivered a note to the U.S. Embassy demanding that the airman’s immunity be lifted. Status of Forces Agreements in many countries where U.S. military personnel are stationed grant them varying levels of legal immunity." http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=171104

"Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Thursday U.S. servicemen and women stationed in his Central Asian state should no longer enjoy immunity from prosecution after the fatal shooting of a truck driver." http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061207/ts_nm/kyrgyzstan_usa_dc_3

2006-12-09 09:04:36 · 13 answers · asked by Raptork9 2

and how come marines look down on the army. and how come the army is supposed to be land based and hte marines sea based yet it seems like the marines are always on land

2006-12-09 08:50:42 · 16 answers · asked by nigga 3

(i know i am half mexican half spaniard)

2006-12-09 08:36:04 · 6 answers · asked by Paul C 1

I'm sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap. I stood through a memorial service today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April. During this memorial a number of people spoke about the guy and about his sacrifice for the country. How do you justify 'sacrificing' your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man's power, and his ego. A recent Marine Corps intelligence report that was leaked said that the war in the al-Anbar province is unwinnable. It said that there was nothing we could do to win the hearts and minds, or the military operations in that area. So I wonder, why are we still there? Democracy is not forced upon people at gunpoint. It's the result of forward thinking individuals who take the initiative and risks to give their fellow countrymen a better way of life.

When I joined I took an oath. In that oath I swore to protect the Constitution of the United States. I didn't swear to build democracies in countries on the other side of the world under the guise of "national security." I didn't join the military to be part of an Orwellian ("1984") war machine that is in an obligatory war against whoever the state deems the enemy to be so that the populace can be controlled and riled up in a pro-nationalistic frenzy to support any new and oppressive law that will be the key to destroying the enemy. Example given – the Patriot Act. So aptly named, and totally against all that the constitution stands for. President Bush used the reactionary nature of our society to bring our country together and to infuse into the national psyche a need to give up their little-used rights in the hope to make our nation a little safer. The same scare tactics he used to win elections. He drones on and on about how America and the world would be a less safe place if we weren't killing Iraqis, and that we'd have to fight the terrorists at home if we weren't abroad. In our modern day emotive society this strategy (or strategery?) works, or had worked, up until last month's elections.

My point in this; to show that America was never nationalistic. If anything they were Statalistic (giving their allegiance to the state of their residence). This is shown in the fact that the founders created states with fully capable and independent governments and not provinces that were just a division of the federal government. These men believed that America was a place where imperialistic values would be non-existent. Where the people trying to make their lives better by working hard, thinking, inventing and using the free market would tie up so much of normal life that imperialistic colonization and the fighting of wars thousands of miles away for interests that are not our own would be avoided. They believed this expansion of power could be left to the European nations, the England, France and Spain of their time. However this recent, and current influx of nationalistic feeling has created an environment where giving up your rights, going to a foreign country to fight a people who did not ask for us to be there, nor did their leader do anything to warrant us being there, and dying would be considered honorable and heroic. I don't believe it anymore. I don't believe it's right for any American to go along with it anymore. Yes I know that we in the military are bound by the UCMJ and somehow don't fall under the Constitution (the very thing we're suppose to be defending) but sooner or later there is a decision that every American soldier, marine, airmen and seamen makes to allow themselves to be sent to a war that is against every fiber this country was founded on. I know that when April rolls around I will be thinking long and hard on that decision. Even though we in the military are just doing as we're told we still have the moral and ethical obligation to choose to do as we're told, or to say, "No, that isn't right." I believe that if more troopers like me and the professional military, the officers and commanders, start standing up and saying that they won't let themselves or their troops go to this illegal war people will start standing up and realizing what the heck is going on over there.

The sad fact of the matter is that we are not fighting terrorists in Iraq. We are fighting the Iraqi people who feel like a conquered and occupied people. Personally I have a hard time believing that if I was an Iraqi that I wouldn't be doing everything in my power to kill and maim as many Americans as possible. I know that the vast majority of Americans would not be happy with the Canadian government, or any other foreign government, liberating us from the clutches of George W. Bush, even though a large number of us would like that, and forcing us to accept their system of government. Would not millions of Americans rise up and fight back? Would you not rise up to protect and defend your house and your neighborhood if someone invaded your country? But we send thousands of troops to a foreign country to do just that. How is it moral to fight a people who are just trying to defend their homes and families? I think next time I go to Iraq perhaps I should wear a bright red coat and carry a Brown Bess instead of my digitalized utilities and M16.

Notice I never once used the word homeland in any of this. I have a secondary point I want to bring up now. Never once was the term homeland ever used to describe the country of America until Mr. Bush began the department of homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. Taking a 20th century history class will teach us that the most notable countries in the last century that referred to their country in this way were Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Hitler used the term fatherland to drum up support, nationalistic support, for his growing war machine. He used the nationalism he created in the minds of the Germans to justify the sacrifice of their livelihood to build the war machine to get back their power from the oppressive restrictions the English and French had put on them at Versailles. This is the same feeling that has been virulently infecting the American psyche in the last hundred years. This is the same feeling that consoles a mother after her son is killed in an attempt to prosecute an aggressor's war 10,000 miles away. It's also known as Patriotism these days, but I say, "No more." No more nationalistic inanity, no more passing it off as patriotism. Patriotism is learning, and educating oneself to understand what their country really stands for.

2006-12-09 08:35:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 08:33:06 · 9 answers · asked by ally 2

I would like to join the United States Coast Guard. I'm a 25 year old male in good physical condition, very motivated but, I also have an anxiety disorder I was hospatlized when I was 16, also had a 3 day evaluation when I was 20. In recent years it has gotten much better and easy to manage. Other than that I'm great. I've thought about enlisting many times but , always thought I would be turned away if they found out in a backgrould check or something.

2006-12-09 08:32:51 · 4 answers · asked by ninjatunafish 1

If we were to let Iran help w/ the withdrawl of US troops in Iraq, would that lesson the tension between the US and Iran? So by the sounds of it, this would work out. The US could be deemed victorious and leave; which would make both Republicans and Democrats happy. So the war would be over, the 2 parties in Congress could focus on bigger threats. So by the sounds of it all, it would be a good thing for America, right?

But the thing I cant think around is that Iran and Syria have been funding money and weapons to the insurgents in Iraq. Whos to say that when we leave, that they help the insurgents and take back Iraq?

2006-12-09 08:30:41 · 5 answers · asked by I Hate Liberals 4

2006-12-09 08:29:57 · 4 answers · asked by macwmc@pacbell.net 1

With all of the controversy with Iran wanting nuclear privelages and our dispute with Iraq, do you think we will be dealing with the possibility of nuclear warfare in the near future?

2006-12-09 08:29:34 · 8 answers · asked by qtpatootie 1

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=893
what do people think of this link, it's proof to me that a country which produces $190 million barrels of oil a day get's put into this situation by nazi invaders. NOTICE THE WAFFEN S.S U.S ARMY HELMET.

2006-12-09 08:28:10 · 8 answers · asked by mr.truth 2

Im waiting for all the papers to get processed. So far my overseas physical was approved so now im waiting for the next step. With the holidays coming..Im just wondering about how long does the process take or hows many "steps" are left. hes stationed in germany.

2006-12-09 08:22:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not necesarily with nuclear weapons. Israel demonstrated you can destroy a country pretty well with conventional weapons. If so, why do you believe this?

2006-12-09 08:16:35 · 5 answers · asked by Mordent 7

2006-12-09 07:59:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 07:57:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

(aztecs were already here so europeans the actual immigrants here)

2006-12-09 07:54:45 · 8 answers · asked by Paul C 1

2006-12-09 07:52:34 · 1 answers · asked by macwmc@pacbell.net 1

2006-12-09 07:34:33 · 9 answers · asked by Dhnys 3

2006-12-09 07:19:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous