Your a rag head, sand monkey camel jockey,,sweetjesus wrote:all this truth is making my head hurt, can we please go back to name calling?
There,,
Feel better now?
Your a rag head, sand monkey camel jockey,,sweetjesus wrote:all this truth is making my head hurt, can we please go back to name calling?
No,, not yet.sweetjesus wrote:i missed that..
he's a fucking mercenary?
oh, that just makes it a much more worthy cause.Homebelly wrote:No,, not yet.sweetjesus wrote:i missed that..
he's a fucking mercenary?
Thats what he wants to be when he grows up.
He needs to do the time in Afghanistan first, then blackwater will consider him.
Well,,
At least thats how i understand it.
Well,,sweetjesus wrote:oh, that just makes it a much more worthy cause.Homebelly wrote:No,, not yet.sweetjesus wrote:i missed that..
he's a fucking mercenary?
Thats what he wants to be when he grows up.
He needs to do the time in Afghanistan first, then blackwater will consider him.
Well,,
At least thats how i understand it.
love,
- camel jockey
G.I. Joe wrote:The money's going to be fantastic...
..tracking down and killing...
Unfortunately Smu, I can't get my butt to Iraq right now (the money would be fantastic)...
I might have considered working for Blackwater, but after seeing them firsthand there's no way. I've had my eyes opened to a lot of things here. That's one of them.yoshitosser wrote:DK, my goodness, are you sure he really said "My experience in Bosnia doesn't ammount for shit as far as Blackwater is concerned, but after my tour in Afghanistan I'll see what oppotrunities develop"
Because only the other day in discourse with the lovely Olga...
Olga wrote:
civilian shootings by gung ho contractors - Probably right on this. Black water and their goons are idiots.
and montry replied:
+1. I've met some of these guys, and they're no help at all. I'm as morally opposed to mercenaries as I am to conscription. They're not accountable, and that's the core of military force; accountability for the use of force. That's why there's ALWAYS an after action report for every kinetic incident, even if a donkey steps on a landmine left over from the soviets in the middle of the desert. Accountability.
Heavens above.
Yeah, my mistake in not clarifying this. I was ranting late at night! The pipeline was supposed continue through Afghanistan and hit the port in Pakistan.Homebelly wrote:although there is some truth in your whole rant about pipelines and so forth,,siddhu wrote: It's extremely important on geo strategic level. It provides the closest sea port to the vast Central Asian oil and gas reserves. Which was one of the reasons for the Soviet invasion.
you should probably try and get a little more background from some place other than Mike Moore. To begin with Afghanistan is land locked and has no ports.
I'll also add to my quote from that original thread. (note the bold bit, and please excuse my spelling error. That should read "unfortunate").M. Bréqs wrote:Well, thanks for the well-wishes.
My lady's all for this; the reason we were able to buy a house recently is only because I'll be paying off the mortgage quickly with money earned this deployment. Of course she's scared, but she knows that if she were to try to forbid me to go, I would leave her in a heartbeat.
It's also kinda wierd when a lot of my friends have gone, and I'm the last to deploy; There's no peer pressure, but they share a common experience that I can't relate to, and I don't want to be the only one of my professional peers who hasn't taken his fair share of the shit.
Sincerely, the motivations for going are so many, it's almost overwhelming.One of my buddies (who's ex military) is a buddhist; He claims he achieved a lesser state of enlightenment after being shot at (and shooting back) in the Medak pocketin Croatia.
- Pride,
Avoidance of shame,
Desire to share a common experience with my friends,
Desire for professional respect,
The medal (believe it, that hunk of brass means a lot),
The money,
The personal satisfaction of helping some really ufortunate people out,
The adventure,
Testing my physical and mental limits (self-actualization), etc.