Prior service

[Jack steel]

Java jumps into every military thread thinking he knows shit and that he's some well educated historian and shit.

As for woot. Well you're fighting a losing battle trying to get him to not talk shit. This is CC and he loves to stir the pot. Don't take it personally. When I first joined EF I almost got banned cause he pissed me off so bad I said some shit we're not allowed to on here.

I don't really care what any of you believe, so i'm not going to comment on that again, but the man is proud of his country and what he sacrificed for it apparently. I don't know what he did, but it doesnt really matter, because i didn't do a lot to make a difference over there myself but i know how much i still sacrificed. Woot, i know you like to kid around, but "brainwashed faggot" to a guy who's standing up for the country WE ALL live in??? At least i assume. I can't say much to semper because i think if you've served you have a right to comment based on that you've experienced it. So ya, just had to say something about that. Lol, sorry those were just the last three posts i read. I'm bored. :/

 

[Jack steel]

please don't karma bomb me!

 

[shirlene29]

woot lives in canada...eh

java does jump in to every military thread...his views change depending on what pot he's trying to stir
semper is a good bro...even if his sense of humor is a little flat (jarheads what can ya do)

 

[gatemoney]

American male homosapien. Who the fuck do you think you are jumping into my tread being a smart ass? No room for punks here dude just asking for advice from people who matter.

lol@ ppl who matter...where?...on a chat forum? lolololololololol
How do you have any idea who's answering you?
You special or something?
You know everybody?
You really should think before you speak.
And you really should think twice before you try and insult my
viper driving
Oil company owning
Hot ass girlfriend baby making
MOD
"Nice life having"
Canadian brother from the north!

Now kindly stgu&gtfo you fucking waste of fucking skin!

 

[gatemoney]

Fuck i love c&c!

 

[shirlene29]

and here I thought you were jumpin in to follow me around and your swingin from woots nuts

wtf

 

[shirlene29]

were still bros tho right?

 

[Jack steel]

woot lives in canada...eh

java does jump in to every military thread...his views change depending on what pot he's trying to stir
semper is a good bro...even if his sense of humor is a little flat (jarheads what can ya do)

Aaah, Canadian. There's one fault i'll put on Americans (me). We tend to forget there are other countries out there besides ours, lol as i so clearly demonstrated in my last post.

 

[gatemoney]

and here I thought you were jumpin in to follow me around and your swingin from woots nuts

wtf

lololololol
You will always be my first :-*

 

[javaguru]

I know, right? LOL! Who knew all the SF badasses would congregate here at EF?

My dad wasn't SF, but he lived war for 4 years, every day in the South Pacific. When the time came to get out after the Japs surrendered, he couldn't go fast enough or get far enough away.

War was a lot messier then I guess. We (mom and the kids) didn't know he had nightmares all the time. The stories we heard were about him and his buddies getting into trouble for fighting with some drunken sailors or some other foolishness. He never talked about the bodies he'd seen piled up (both American and Japs), or the buddies that got killed or the Japs he'd shot, or any other "totally cool adrenaline rushing" sort of stuff. He would talk about getting shot at and the food running out and not getting rations for several weeks, sleeping under a parka in a hole filled with muddy water and worse. He was clear that it was very shitty.

He never showed the effect that the horrors of war had on him though. Back then they didn't talk to shrinks when they came home. Hell they didn't talk to anyone about what they had done. They got jobs, got married, had kids, and lived a normal life. I guess they got pretty adrenaline'd out after 4 years non stop. Or maybe they were just weak and helpless?

My dad didn't want any of his kids to go into any branch of the service. That was how bad war was for him. He said when they got back and were lined up and were asked who wanted to re-up...not one of them stepped forward. Maybe they should have waited a few weeks or months to ask them? lol.

Let me also say that I respect those who serve and have served. I am glad and thankful they do/did what they do/did. Thank you guys for your service.

Indeed, when I enlisted at seventeen I needed my parents permission. My mother forbid it and my father simply said, "let him go." He enlisted in the Navy right after Pearl Harbor. From what I gather he assumed that he was going to get drafted and he didn't want to end up in the infantry. He didn't end up in the infantry, the Navy made him a corpsman and promptly attached him to the marines...My mother got the Purple Heart plates late in his life after I found his military service records and told her he was awarded two Purple Hearts, one for the Tarawa campaign and the other for Iwo Jima. The only stories he ever told me were about being strafed by a zero standing between the Captain and XO; The Captain was killed and the XO critically wounded while he was unscathed. The second story, He went in with a battalion of marines and only a handful came back alive and unscathed....they went on a bond drive and he went onto the next campaign. Like most things, I confused the teachings of my grandfather with the message my father was trying to convey. My father didn't set foot on soil controlled by the United States for over four years. He was either floating on a ship or attacking Japanese controlled territory....his ETS date was in 1948 from Great Lakes...He served without seeing his family once from late 1941 to 1948...Please whine about your 12 month rotation being extended to 15 months...