Military - August 2007

2007-08-29 06:25:50 · 10 answers · asked by favors8016 1

I was told I have to be off them for a year to join the airforce and was wondering if it's the same for all branches. It really pisses me off.

2007-08-29 06:22:24 · 5 answers · asked by shinra89 2

Has anyone here ever been medically discharged from the service? I have 13 years active duty but have a few med problems that are making me reconsider staying active. Would it be more beneficial to just stay active and ride the time out, or try to get a med discharge? Hopefully medically retired. any help would be greatly appreciated.

2007-08-29 05:59:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My sentence to you is, "I love you more than words can say, and thank you for all that you sacrifice, and do, to protect your people, even when you're not given the full respect by them, that you deserve."
Bless yall.

2007-08-29 05:54:11 · 14 answers · asked by xenypoo 7

a name that invoke fear in the enemy...

2007-08-29 05:47:38 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not ACTIVE DUTY status. Currently in INACTIVE RESERVES. Wanting to get a military I.D.

2007-08-29 05:33:35 · 8 answers · asked by TiTo 1

Imagine this scenario: shortly after the American led invasion of Iraq Saddam and his government were able to detonate a nuke in a major American city killing more than 100,000 people. Would the following facts in this scenario be convincing to you that this was a justifiable action by the Iraqi government? Why or why not?

-Iraq cites the fact that America, not Iraq, was the aggressor. America invaded Iraq; Iraq did not attack America first.

-in order to save the "thousands of Iraqi lives" that an Iraqi led invasion into the American homeland would cause the use of nuclear weapons was justifiable to this person and the Iraqi government.

-Iraq had repeatedly warned the US that it had "WMD" that it would use to defend itself if America did not end the war immediately, instead, America presses on and Saddam again is able to detonate a nuke in another major US city.

Does this sound like familiar rhetoric used to defend any of America's actions during wartime in the past?

2007-08-29 05:17:25 · 17 answers · asked by Free Radical 5

http://www.military.com/veterans-report/better-pay-for-combat-related-disabilities?ESRC=vr.nl

2007-08-29 05:16:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Canadian one who was found dead in the secure complex...do you think he could have committed suicide?

I would hate to think that something like that could happen, that soldiers could feel so trapped at war that that would be the only alternative. It shouldn't have to come to that.

2007-08-29 05:09:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Alex MacGregor VC, aged 93, of Reading, Berkshire. He has been let out of Hospice to end his days peacefully at his home with his son, me (his grandson) and my two sisters.

Alex was a road worker all his life, retiring thirteen years ago at the age of 70 and had two children, one of whom died young and was survived by my father. His wife, Daisy, died in 2001 of heart problems and he has been unconsole-able ever since.

During WW2 Alex served with the Light Infantry (rank of Lance Corporal) and earned the Victoria Cross for walking out in to enemy fire to retrieve his RSM, who had been hit by shrapnel and was unconscious. They remained close friends until the latter's death only a few months ago.

Alex is now very sick and does not have long left, and we are here to look after him and make sure he is comfortable. He is looknig forward to seeing all of his old Infantry friends again and tasting his wife's steak and kidney pie again.

He doesn't have many friends left...

2007-08-29 05:06:44 · 17 answers · asked by Monty 1

2007-08-29 05:06:02 · 30 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7

2007-08-29 04:54:06 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-29 04:40:08 · 37 answers · asked by sharad s 2

cvq: isn't that a cable shopping network?

2007-08-29 04:31:05 · 13 answers · asked by Studbolt Slickrock Deux 4

im coming back from overseas and am currently moving my family to my new duty station. well my stepsons father has known this for a long time but just now put in a petition to keep my son in state i have two other kids and my wife has to go to court dates for this and i need to know anything that could help either speed this up in our favor or squash it altogether its getting very close to me coming home so as of now i cant personally do anything about it but if i could give my wife ammo it would be very helpful so my family isnt apart for any longer please if you have anything throw it out there...

2007-08-29 04:27:13 · 7 answers · asked by paul 1

This is a serious question - I'm curious of what people think.

Also, I guess it opens into a more general question on pre-emption. When, if ever, would you allow a nation to pre-emptively attack to prevent itself from being attacked? Seems like there will always be a risk that we create more problems rather than solving them. Yet after 9/11, many (most) people wanted to know why we didn't find out about and prevent the attack beforehand.

What do you think?

2007-08-29 04:17:16 · 11 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7

I was thinking about getting him an ipod, download the songs he likes on to it, getting the wall charger and sending it to him for Christmas...I thought it was a good idea, what do you think? I'm also sending him a Christmas stocking with cookies, hard candy, shave cream, razors, shampoo, shower gel, crstyal light, and stuff like that...Good idea?

2007-08-29 04:04:16 · 12 answers · asked by ~*Zaidens Mommy*~ 3

I have heard it said that any fighting force that doesn't wear a uniform or fight according to international standards of "conventional" warfare is a terrorist force. Additionally, the intent of a fighting force has been used to differentiate between "legitimate" military force and terrorism. If a military force commits an act of violence to meet a certain tactical or strategic objective this legitimizes the action, if a person or group commits an act of violence to cause domestic, commercial, and political instability without a clear objective it is called terrorism.

The question is; are these good ways to evaluate what is or is not terrorism?

Consider that the British criticized the American rebels during the revolutionary war for not wearing uniforms and not "fighting in conventional ways"

Doesn’t it stand to reason that an inferior force will attempt to exploit a stronger forces weakness and that the stronger force will attempt to legitimize its actions and demonize an enemy?

2007-08-29 03:25:28 · 14 answers · asked by Free Radical 5

I'm thinking about joining the Guard or Reserves but could use people's input on it. I know it's a broad question but maybe some of you can give your two cents. I'm 29 and married and my time is almost up to join. I want to make a decision within days. Thank you.

2007-08-29 02:31:57 · 9 answers · asked by sean_bahr 1

2007-08-29 02:29:55 · 5 answers · asked by blueeyeswaitingtoshine 1

2007-08-29 02:29:34 · 7 answers · asked by trucker 5

Back when I was taking training for the army in the early 90's, much of the "threat" training involved Soviet tactics. Obviously, in the last 10 years, the military has been used more in peacekeeping type ops and situations like Iraq. I'm not advocating anything for or against the current military deployments. If this is what the military will be doing the next few decades, is our current administration changing the way they are organized, trained, equipped? It is a challenging task to take an armored unit who is trained to fight a large column of T-72's rolling across western Europe and put them into urban combat avoiding streetside bombs.

2007-08-29 01:27:01 · 7 answers · asked by Thundercat 7

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2007-08-29 01:18:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are we still playing with them?

America was struck with its first mega-terror attack
by jihadists. In the fall of 1793, the Algerians
seized 11 U.S. merchant ships and enslaved more than
100 Americans.

When word of the attack reached New York, the stock
market crashed. Voyages were canceled in every major
port. Seamen were thrown out of work. Ship suppliers
went out of business. What Sept. 11 did to the U.S.
economy in 2001, the mass shipjacking of 1793 did to
the fledgling U.S. economy in that year.

Accordingly, it took the U.S. Congress only four
months to decide to build a fleet of warships.

But even then, Congress didn't choose war, as
Jefferson prescribed. Instead, while building what
would become the U.S. Navy, Congress sent diplomats to
reason with the Algerians. The U.S. ended up paying
close to $1 million and giving the pasha of Algiers a
new warship, "The Crescent," to win release of 85
surviving American hostages.

2007-08-29 01:15:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-28 23:38:47 · 3 answers · asked by יונתן 4

Is it hypocritical for the US to complain about any foreign intervention in Iraq given that we illegally invaded and occupied Iraq and since then, have destroyed it?

Seems to me that ANY country (not just Iran but other countries as well) in the region would intervene because their interests are and will be at peril if the US occupation DOES continue...

The US illegally invaded and now occupies Iraq, the Saudi PM said so at the Arab Summit last spring... It seems highly hypocritical that the US should complain about other country's attempts to fight to correct the disaster that has befallen their neighbor and will certainly affect them if nothing is done.

What do you think?

2007-08-28 23:35:34 · 6 answers · asked by plenum222 5

Iraq is a place of reckoning now - war has torn apart the nation ... But whose is to blame

2007-08-28 23:19:43 · 16 answers · asked by HassaninDhouse 2

My b/f just graduated from college, he majored in History and now he wants to join the military (preferably the Air Force) Besides having a college degree, what else do you need to become an officer with no prior military experience??

2007-08-28 22:24:59 · 4 answers · asked by Danny82 2

Would their allies outside Europe make a difference? China, Two Koreas, Japan, Australia, Israel, Arab states, etc.

2007-08-28 22:17:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

drove a motorcycle as fast as I could into the base bypassing all the security trucks etc.? Take a cell phone and take pictures and email them before I got touched. Think it might work?

2007-08-28 21:26:53 · 12 answers · asked by mike 1