Lieutenant Colonel Scheller in the Brig

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UHBlackhawk said:
Not sure what you mean by “deflect from the views and sentiments”.
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I want the veracity of his statements reviewed. The whole war and exit. And not by bureaucrats and military personnel. Follow the money.

Let’s not end it with Scheller was an idiot who broke the law.
 
I joined so I could get paid to fly cool and expensive aircraft. Of course it didn’t occur to me that the reason I got selected to fly cool and expensive aircraft was because fodder was needed for the Fulda Gap.
Also I heard you could pick up girls in a flight suit. My wife asked me out while I was wearing one… so it must have been the flight suit.
 
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LurkingQuietly said:
. So....why exactly did you do it?
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I kind of joked in my prior answer. I joined to serve my country. Nothing more, nothing less. It was a CHOICE as I could have gone to college
on my parent's dime as my sister had done before me but my father had served and I wanted to serve. Many/most of my peers at USNA were in the same boat in wanting to serve.
NOTE: My USNA grad son has done the same, his brother, sister and stepsister went the normal college route but he wanted to serve. Nothing about resumes or killing for ANY of us.
 
OldRetSWO said:
I kind of joked in my prior answer. I joined to serve my country. Nothing more, nothing less. It was a CHOICE as I could have gone to college
on my parent's dime as my sister had done before me but my father had served and I wanted to serve. Many/most of my peers at USNA were in the same boat in wanting to serve.
NOTE: My USNA grad son has done the same, his brother, sister and stepsister went the normal college route but he wanted to serve. Nothing about resumes or killing for ANY of us.
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I don't care what they say......you Boat Boys and Girls are okay, in my book!!

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Devil Doc said:
On my desk in my classroom. View attachment 10848
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Mr Miller, my sixth grade teacher, had one of these and chain smoked unfiltered Camels.
When he passed away and my dad read his obituary he said, “The guy survived the Hurtgen Forest as an infantry lieutenant. No wonder he chain smoked.” When I asked my dad what the Hurtgen Forest was he glared at me, and told me to look it up in the school library, then be prepared to talk about it at dinner when he returned from his next trip.
 
This thread is like a metaphor for war. A long period of inactivity punctuated by bursts of shear terror.

When I read the resume crack, I reacted as I often do, thinking "he didn't really mean that." I was about to offer him an off ramp, a chance to "revise and extend" his remarks. Maybe he could have said "less than altruistic" or even "selfish". 18-21 year old (males anyway) are not fully formed human beings. But, no. He put the pedal to the floor and kept on.
 
UHBlackhawk said:
Mr Miller, my sixth grade teacher, had one of these and chain smoked unfiltered Camels.
When he passed away and my dad read his obituary he said, “The guy survived the Hurtgen Forest as an infantry lieutenant. No wonder he chain smoked.” When I asked my dad what the Hurtgen Forest was he glared at me, and told me to look it up in the school library, then be prepared to talk about it at dinner when he returned from his next trip.
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Yes on a lighter note.

Did he smoke them in the class room?

I had a prof for Russian history, my one and only fully out communist prof, he made sure we understood he was a commie in his introduction, and he was smoking as the class started and he smoked virtually every single moment of that 50 min class for weeks on end .

I was mesmerized as to how someone could never come up for air even once.

Commie or not my A proved what a fine teacher he was :)
 
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