auntblabby
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25 Sep 2019, 11:57 pm
. I don't feel like trying again niw 
, I'll just say that I presume you know what " fill chicken dinner " and especially " demobbed " meant 
.i can't say i know what the first phrase means, but i do comprehend the 2nd phrase.
26 Sep 2019, 12:36 am
...Jraftie intro'd me for. " chicken " - less than honorable - I saw it elsewhere. " Demobbed ", for discharged (I guess presumably honorably) is more British, I guess (Might be archaic now in Blighty, I dunno).
8 lost ANOTHER, " fun ", entir3ly new post . My life sucks .
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
26 Sep 2019, 10:15 am
26 Sep 2019, 6:00 pm
An army recruiter asked if I was in high school
Answered
He asked if I had a high school diploma
Answered
He asked if I thought about joining Army
Told him I am autistic
"Cool" he answered
And left
Granted the world contains a lot of things much worse than autism, but autism is not "cool"
By the way I am 36 and have a bachelor degree
...I believe you are beyond the standard limit age - I recall it at 34 the latest for the Navy, earlier, others. Perhaps it's different now.
Also, to be blunt, I recall you saying that you are a trans man. As I'm sure you know. Trump (and I am against that
)...
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
26 Sep 2019, 10:29 pm
auntblabby
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27 Sep 2019, 3:31 am
)...when i was in [1984] we had a 37 year old recruit. he had been in before, a decade earlier. but we also had a 35 year old who had not been in. when they need bulletstopping walking dead meat, they bend the rules.
27 Sep 2019, 3:38 am
)...when i was in [1984] we had a 37 year old recruit. he had been in before, a decade earlier. but we also had a 35 year old who had not been in. when they need bulletstopping walking dead meat, they bend the rules.
...Yes. What you said
.
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
27 Sep 2019, 12:37 pm
...Yoy don't state whether you yourself were in the military as an adult as opposed to being an " Army brat "
when a child although from your phrasing I assume that you weren't.
27 Sep 2019, 12:43 pm
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27 Sep 2019, 5:11 pm
auntblabby
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27 Sep 2019, 6:12 pm
when the balloon goes up [war] all that BS will be summarily tossed by the wayside, and they will take all comers. my late dad told me stories of how when he was in during WW2, he had fellow GIs that were, in his words, "crazy." one guy ate light bulbs [!]. one guy was so mentally dull, he had to be laboriously taught how to lace up his boots. during the vietnam war, defense secretary Bob Mcnamara infamously inducted borderline mentally ret*d people, called "Mcnamara's army" - these people basically served as cannon fodder- bulletstoppers and numbers-boosting filler in the army, all too often their fellow troops fragged 'em because they were a hazard to the rest of the company. [Forrest Gump was strictly fiction!]
may Mac molder in a dark corner of purgatory for what he did. 
in any case, if anybody here is presently rejected for military duty, the next major war likely will be their ticket in.
27 Sep 2019, 6:34 pm
may Mac molder in a dark corner of purgatory for what he did.
in any case, if anybody here is presently rejected for military duty, the next major war likely will be their ticket in.You got me curious on one thing about "McNamara's Army" why didn't they just put them in a separate unit like the Tuskegee Experiment was with blacks if they were that much of an inconvenience to the others?
auntblabby
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27 Sep 2019, 6:37 pm
may Mac molder in a dark corner of purgatory for what he did.
in any case, if anybody here is presently rejected for military duty, the next major war likely will be their ticket in.You got me curious on one thing about "McNamara's Army" why didn't they just put them in a separate unit like the Tuskegee Experiment was with blacks if they were that much of an inconvenience to the others?
to use a clumsy metaphor, think of it like how a dentist will, instead of implanting a real tooth where one is missing, they will instead install a "bridge" tooth supported by the intact teeth on either side. these unfortunates [Mcnamara's army] served as "bridges" in this respect. they could not have served in a company of their own as they lacked the mentality for such independent action. the tuskegee experiment was a totally different deal, those people were normal or above normal IQ and not addled in any way.
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