M14 Forum

DAWKEL10

This one is really worth considering:
Drafting Guys over 60
----this is so Funny & obviously written by a Former Soldier----
New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.
For starters:
Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. "My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry" We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some ******* that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, "I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.
If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone out run a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.
If nothing else, put us on border patrol....we will have it secured the first night!
Share this with your senior friends. It's purposely in big type so they can read it.

ribs55

HELL YEAH!!!
what you said!!

Smoky

HOO RAA to that.
Count me in.

JunkyardDog

"Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy."

Well either I'm an exception to the rule or I'm younger than I thought I was.

Now what were we talking about?

Biathlon

I'm in the process of doing exactly that in the IDF. I'm 53 and ski regularly at elevations well above 10,000feet. I'd love to serve in Afghanistan in the mountains. Will bring my own rifle and ammo.

1-Shot

I'm ready to JOIN, Have been for a loooong time........LOL

Michael

I'm 61 and would do it again in a heartbeat.

I know about how far I would get humping a '60 and all that gear up and down them Mts.
Plus I don't like goat.
I would be a significant liability to the mission and my team mates.

I hate the ageing process.

dennisS

I'm 58 and in better shape than most 20 year olds today! Yeah, let's go ahead and put the best guys possible up front, only problem is , none of us are politically correct! You older guys know what I mean!

Were'nt no women humpin' up those hills!

30M2Ball

yep!

I am for it. I report with rifle, ammo, desert cammies, and don't even want pay--am already "pensioned-off" and out to pasture.

"Age and cunning ALWAYS beats youth and strength."

Oxmix

I think 60 and up personal could be used in an administrative and technical MOSs' All but a few would be a liability in combat.

Regards

Ox

WestTXfarmer

I'd go back in a heartbeat if they needed me but only back into the first branch I served in. Definitely not the Army again. They still owe me some backpay.

I'm not sure what the draft age is these days but I never signed up anyway so it doesn't matter. I signed up for active duty when I was 16 and had my 17th birthday in bootcamp so I never had to sign up for the draft . Right after my 18th birthday I got a letter from the selective service nuts, addresed to the ship I was on and delivered to the middle of the Indian ocean, saying that the absentee ballot I had recently sent in would not be counted unless I signed up for the draft. Also it had a lot of other threats of things I would lose if I didn't. I gave it to my division officer and he fell out of his chair laughing. We then walked right into the chief engineers office and showed him. He darn near had a heart attack laughing. Then the three of us walked up to the XO's state room where we met the XO, the Captain, the airboss and the fleet admiral who were all together shooting the breeze.

I swear I never saw so much brass rolling around on the floor in laughter. Even the two marine orderlies were laughing about it. Every officer in that room sent nasty letters to the selective service for me telling them they were morons.

I never did sign up.

I'm still kicking around the idea of going back again a 4th time. It's boring being a civilian. I'm 40 now and would be an officer myself this time. I made it to E-6 in two different branches and was offered warrant officer to stay in the Navy but I got out for family reasons. If gas prices get any worse it may be worth it.
Farming sure isn't making any money these days. If the draft board called me though, I'd have to tell them to bite me.

pilotc7a

I was in the korea fiasco 51-54, and then in vietnam 67-72.
I also flew two years in liberia west africa.
I've been in central and south america since 1958
i'd much rather eat beans and tortillas and be in the jungle than eat goat meat and be in the desert
so call me the next time we do "someting" in the southern jungle.

MesaRifle

I just got up because of my fricking back pain, and of course, I sorta had to go pee as well. I mean, why not, if'n I'm up and all? And then I checked in here...

Dawkel, truly... thanks! The OP was one of the funniest things I've read since... well, since.... oh frick.... I can't remember.

Fact is, really now... if I were nestled into a nice comfy foxhole or sneaky-hide overlook right now, with a good Gen 4 night sight on top of "Lucy", and some son-of-a-bitchin', child-murdering, woman-beating, civilian-killing Son of Muhammed tried to sneak on by me, I'd definitely perk right up, take on a heart-felt grin, and start by putting a 7.62mm hole into his shin-bone (well, it starts out that size anyhow....), then another into his thigh, and so on, until he'd be bawling for his savior and claiming his 72 old women (after all, Mohammed himself is workin' all the young ones as we speak...) just before, out at about 500 yds from my nice comfy evening spot, I'd finish him off. Don't want to waste too much of Uncle Sam's resources after all (only the Obamyster willingly does that....).

I mean, that alternate early morning activity would certainly take my mind off how I feel right now, and so I'd probably save a lot of my limited SS Disability Income moola that I spend right now on my Oxy- and Hydro-codone Rxs! After all, I need all I can of that miserable trickle to buy reloading components!

Thanks again! Great stuff. I'll be sharing it with all my friends (good thing I put them on an e-mail group list, else I truly would forget who they are, or at the least, how to get in touch with them!!!)

And right now, I might actually be able to get back to sleep, starting a good waking dream, with a smile on my face, about cleaning up the sandbox with real zest. And with a wiley, heartfelt smirk on my mug and a few 20-round mags!

Dragoon 15

Great assessment. I'm not quit that senior but I do have those same unique (qualities" (i.e. cranky, etc.).

davecampperry

...and I would be on the winning side, unllike my tour.