Military - April 2007

well USMC starts tommrow cant stop thinking. so...any advice besides shut up and do things fast? or things that kept u going? thanks

2007-04-12 16:55:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

my husband told me he wants to join the national guard. i am scared and dont want him too. im 18 and have a small baby and have NEVER been on my own! he said he would be gone for like 21 weeks for training and stuff. please tell me everything i need to know about the national guard, i heard it goes by state or something so we live in texas. im scared , i dont want something to happen to him, i dont know what i would do! please no rude answers.

2007-04-12 16:35:07 · 12 answers · asked by Dungonecrazy11 2

About boot camp or deployed life or MOS. Or just anything about Military life?

2007-04-12 16:28:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-12 16:04:25 · 1 answers · asked by kim b 1

2007-04-12 15:59:13 · 6 answers · asked by kim b 1

I am looking for books that cover the military campaigns in a much detail as possible. Maybe its impossible to find a whole singlebook on this. I know Osprey Military Campaigns is the best on the subject of wars, but it focuses on just one campaign per book. I'd need more of an overview, but with a military focus. Any titles would be greatly appriciated.

2007-04-12 15:24:56 · 4 answers · asked by Mike 4

....Those made by Muslims in Guantanamo Bay under pressure true?

2007-04-12 15:15:36 · 9 answers · asked by Better things to do 2

The same things over and over? Like "hang in there" or "it's going to be okay"...etc. I'm asking this because my best friend is deployed at the moment, & today he e-mailed me and told me that he would be deployed 15 months instead of the original 12 months. He's not complaining or anything and was prepared, and of course he accepts it; however, he is feeling down because he has a baby girl and he feels like she's not going to recognize him when he get's home. All I can think of to say is "hang in there" and "you can do this" and "you'll be okay". However, saying that seems so inadequate. What more can I say or do? "Hang in there" is beginning to sound kind of redundant, even to me. He doesn't complain of course, but I can't help but wonder whether or not it irritates him to hear the same things all the time. This is definitely out of my realm of experience and knowledge.

2007-04-12 15:14:31 · 15 answers · asked by LibraT 4

I'm writing a paper and I was wondering besides the fact that you had to register for the draft, how did men find out that they had actually been drafted?

2007-04-12 14:52:07 · 15 answers · asked by Dat Chick 1

their also making him drop out of high school
and from what ive been told their only doing it cause they dont want to take care of him anymore please if you have any comments pleaze reply as soon as possible he was told this all yesterday and that he will leave in about a month pleaze help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

2007-04-12 14:31:17 · 20 answers · asked by edenlover123 1

I have always seen these tube like things on the top rotating part of a tank. There's usually 3 on each side of the rotating part, and they are like curved outward. What are they for, what do they do?

Thanks...

2007-04-12 13:37:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-12 13:32:52 · 7 answers · asked by John B 2

I mean, its great that you serve your country, but infantrymen are a different animal all together. Isn't this something the services have made up to make support troops feel better about themselves? While the Infantry certainly couldn't perform without every 11 troops that support a single infantryman, if you were really a bad @$$ in the first place, you would have volunteered to be a grunt. If you close with the enemy to destroy them, you deserve the equivalent recognition of a CIB. I know that there are non infantry troops doing infantry jobs. But if you are not CLOSING WITH the enemy, meaning bringing the fight and not just getting shot at on your way to BIAP, do you really need a badge?

And if you aren't 0311 or 11B, I don't care what you think.

2007-04-12 12:57:52 · 9 answers · asked by ElevenBang 2

Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: We didn’t invade Iraq moron quit thinking like a liberal
Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: But they did, they found chemical and biological ones still intact, they just didn’t find any nuclear ones, stop listening to the liberal drive by media
Q: And that's why we invaded Iraq?
A: Some of it, you wouldn’t understand about the 17 UN resolutions and it sanctioned by the US Congress and the World Coalition, but that’s because you are listening to that liberal crap again

Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: “SMACK”, weren’t you listening or were you just flapping your gums so you can hear yourself speak like all liberal morons?

Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.

Q: I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.

Q: That doesn't make sense. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons with which they could have fought back?
A: It's a different culture. It's not supposed to make sense.

Q: I don't know about you, but I don't think they had any of those weapons our government said they did.
A: Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether or not they had those weapons. We had another good reason to invade them anyway.

Q: And what was that?
A: Even if Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator, which is another good reason to invade another country, not to mention that he had already invaded Kuwait earlier and had to be put in his place, and since then has refused to abide by the ceasefire, and has constantly broke the “no fly zone”

Q: Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK to invade his country?
A: Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people, and killed thousand of the Kurds using those same WMD’s we were talking about, weren’t you listening again?

Q: Kind of like what they do in China?
A: No China didn’t invade anyone like Saddam did in Kuwait and threaten the worlds oil markets, so Don't go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages (the comparison being what we get for wages here in the good ole USA, because those wages in China are and have improved their standard of living) in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer, besides China exports more than the US does, they are now 2nd in the world.

Q: So if a country lets its people be exploited for American corporate gain, it's a good country, even if that country tortures people?
A: I guess it’s a matter of definition then, cause exploitation by your liberal *** definition might be a enormous raise in that families standard of living to them….weren’t you listening again you moron…SMACK!

Q: Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A: For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the government. People who criticized the government in Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.

Q: Isn't that exactly what happens in China?
A: I told you, China is different.

Q: What's the difference between China and Iraq?
A: Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba'ath party, while China is Communist.


Q: Didn't you once tell me Communists were bad?
A: No, I told you all communisms is bad, do I have to smack you again?

Q: How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A: Well, for one thing, people who criticize the government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured. They hate being oppressed which is why they criticized the government in the first place, and others have been escaping there to come to America ever since Castro took over and found that his system doesn’t work, which is why they are so poor!

Q: Like in Iraq?
A: No, the Iraq people are now free to choose and they have. They chose a new democracy and a new government, and will be a shinning example of capitalism in the mideast if the outside insurgence and it’s neighbors would leave them alone!.

Q: And like in China, too?
A: I told you, China's a good economic competitor. Cuba, on the other hand is a boil on God’s butt!

Q: How come Cuba isn't a good economic competitor?
A: Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our government passed some laws that made it illegal for
Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until they stopped being Communists and started being capitalists like us, well something like that, I don’t rightly know but you being the moron you are and liberal you won’t know any difference.

Q: But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade with Cuba, and started doing business with them, wouldn't that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A: Don't be a smart-***. You are stupid aren’t you! Communism and Capitolism don’t work side by side. You first have to let communism either implode on it’s on like it always does or wait for the people to be so tired of being oppressed that they will revolt to get what they want. Unfortunately Castro has become what he displaced.

Q: I didn't think I was being one.
A: That’s because you are a simplistic liberal moron that has mush for brains, but when you grow up and become a Republican you will be a productive member of society and rather than living off the taxes of others!

2007-04-12 12:38:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Those of us in the military section of yahoo answers who are smart enough to realize that users like Ashley Meyers, ERUDITE, and the others on here who are simply trying to get a rise out of people and show their contempt for America should be able to agree that the best course of action when we see a question from them is to look at it, if violates the terms of use set up by Yahoo Answers report it, and then simply not answer the question. Just ignore them and eventually they will get tired of not being able to get our blood boiling and quit. Can we agree to do this?

2007-04-12 12:06:57 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_re_us/war_claims

Read this story and hope you will be shocked as I was, that some of our soldiers kill Iraqis for no apparent reason and then we compensate them with $5000.....Is this generating bitterness and hatred for the US and will the Iraqi resistance gather steam because of these actions?

2007-04-12 12:01:50 · 7 answers · asked by yahu_sux 1

My husband was awarded the Bronze Star with a V for valor and a purple heart in Viet Nam, but never received the actual medals. How do I go about getting these for him?

2007-04-12 11:34:54 · 7 answers · asked by irat 1

Why are Active duty Army units deployed so often and for such a longer duration?
It has just been announced that all active duty Army units in Iraq and future units will spend 15 months in theater to allow redeploying units 12 months at their home station.
Why weren't Soldiers and their families notified before the media?
And why is it just the Army?
Marines still do 7 months and the Navy and Air Force only have a limited number of troops actually on the ground in Iraq.
It seems to me that the Army may not be able to retain it's active duty troop level much longer, while the Navy and Air Force may become more popular destinations for prospective enlistees.

2007-04-12 11:26:13 · 7 answers · asked by johnny c. 3

2007-04-12 11:20:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is this the right way to talk to my son about the war?
Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction.
Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
Q: And that's why we invaded Iraq?
A: Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.
Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: That's because the weapons are so well hidden. Don't worry, we'll find something, probably right before the election.
Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.
Q: I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.
Q: That doesn't make sense. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons with which they could have fought back?
A: It's a different culture. It's not supposed to make sense.
Q: I don't know about you, but I don't think they had any of those weapons our government said they did.
A: Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether or not they had those weapons. We had another good reason to invade them anyway.
Q: And what was that?
A: Even if Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator, which is another good reason to invade another country.
Q: Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK to invade his country?
A: Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people.
Q: Kind of like what they do in China?
A: Don't go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer.
Q: So if a country lets its people be exploited for American corporate gain, it's a good country, even if that country tortures people?
A: Right.
Q: Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A: For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the government. People who criticized the government in Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Isn't that exactly what happens in China?
A: I told you, China is different.
Q: What's the difference between China and Iraq?
A: Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba'ath party, while China is Communist.
Q: Didn't you once tell me Communists were bad?
A: No, just Cuban Communists are bad.
Q: How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A: Well, for one thing, people who criticize the government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured.
Q: Like in Iraq?
A: Exactly.
Q: And like in China, too?
A: I told you, China's a good economic competitor. Cuba, on the other hand, is not.
Q: How come Cuba isn't a good economic competitor?
A: Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our government passed some laws that made it illegal for Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until they stopped being Communists and started being capitalists like us.
Q: But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade with Cuba, and started doing business with them, wouldn't that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A: Don't be a smart-***.
Q: I didn't think I was being one.
A: Well, anyway, they also don't have freedom of religion in Cuba.
Q: Kind of like China and the Falun Gong movement?
A: I told you, stop saying bad things about China. Anyway, Saddam Hussein came to power through a military coup, so he's not really a legitimate leader anyway.

2007-04-12 11:12:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok, my husband and i ar still waitng on two income tax papers to arrive, can he get kicked out of the army for not filing on time?

2007-04-12 10:59:40 · 5 answers · asked by Baby boy due March 16th 2010 3

my SS teacher told me something today. we were talking about presidents and my SS teacher said presidents tell about wars and so on but the president must be know what he is going. he must make the right choice for war. he must bring the army man back home!
what do u think of what she said?

2007-04-12 09:46:06 · 11 answers · asked by b in big attitude 2

Actually this wasn't me, but a friend of mine had another job, and could not attend the monthly meetings for the reserves, so he just stopped going!! I told him that the results of his actions could not be good, but I am curious what the actual results are! Will he get dishonorably discharged? Or does that only apply to active duty? Is it considered dessertion? I know nothing about the Navy Reserves and how the work, please help?

2007-04-12 09:42:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sometimes civil liberties have to be sacraficed for security. Since congress is causing all these problems with fighting the war wouldn't it make you sleep better knowing Bush has all the power to bring justice to the evil doers? I am sure once he sets the world straight he would turn America back into a democracy.

2007-04-12 09:34:46 · 23 answers · asked by Land of The Free 2

I am a military spouse, and I understand why people are upset about the recent announcement that the Army is going to be extend its tours to 15 months. But, I am sick and tired of hearing/reading about people comparing the Army to the Marine Corps and its deployments. How do I explain the difference to people? Why don't people understand or care that the Marines have smaller units? Do they not realize that the Marines have shorter deployments but are home for a much shorter period of time? Can people not do the math and realize that both groups are actually over in Iraq for the same period of time in a four year enlistment?

Please understand that I do not want to mimize what either group does. I just want people to understand that both groups are making sacrifices, just in different ways.

Army - longer deployments, longer time at home
Marines - shorter deployments, shorter time at home

I am not sure which one would really be better.

2007-04-12 09:29:12 · 12 answers · asked by jrstina624 3

My friend made it through basic and AIT but then before he was transferred to his unit he went to his commanding officers and told them about his gambling problems and how he needed to get help right away.. They didnt do anything at first so his family contacted red cross and the red cross contacted the military and he got a 10 day leave before going to his unit... He never made it back to the army. He was been gone for two years and he went to GA for his gambling help and he searched for god and found help there... It has been 2 years AWOL and he has gotten pulled over by the cops once for a speeding ticket and went to court... He has a good job where they run a background check on him... Hes bought a house and a new car... All of this while he was AWOL... And now that hes gotten the help he has saved up money for his family while hes gone he wants to know what happens now with the AWOL and why they havent hunted him down or arrested him when he was pulled over or bought a house????

2007-04-12 09:00:57 · 15 answers · asked by frank g 1

What's the DLPT test?
where can you take at?

How to study for it?

Thanks

2007-04-12 08:54:16 · 3 answers · asked by Asian Gal 1

Well I have been in NG for one year and I have a NCOIC in this mission that is very stupid. I have gone through chain of command but they didn't do anything. With who do I need to ask for help??????

2007-04-12 08:50:36 · 20 answers · asked by awaliperez 1

The patch has three red stripes and one red stripe attached to the top one with the eagle clutching that top stripe. Inside the stripes is a ship steering wheel.

2007-04-12 08:49:01 · 2 answers · asked by debc67 1

If things are going so well, why do we have to increase the tour of duty? If our troops stay there long enough, can they apply for Iraqi citizenship? It seems like our military is paying for the current administration's mistakes. At what point will it reach the breaking point? Our involvement in WWII did not last this long.

2007-04-12 08:48:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous