They called me up!

Asked me if my fridge was running.

I told them I don't live here anymore.

I was a little over a year out when 9/11 hit. I called in because this same rumor was going around and in the news. The recruit station looked me up and said I did my 8 years. They were looking for those over 4 but under 8 and only very specific MOSs. 11B wasn’t it. Or 31P. I suspect this is more rumor than fact.

Just make sure you remember to put a mag in your m16 this time mustache!

In other news scientists are claiming excessive masturbation may lead to bouts of paranoia.

Define "excessive".

Sent from Proxima Centauri B through the ether using FTP transmission technology, Honey Encryption, and Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches

This article is a load of nonsense, and really folks need to apply a bit more logic and common sense. There's 0.0001% chance this would occur, and for it to occur, the world would need to be melting in nuclear waste and the sun blotted out.

First hint - It's "Los Angeles," not "Las Angeles."

Second hint - the logistical impracticality and "bang for the buck" would not be worth the effort. How many retirees have anything valuable to contribute? Seriously? I know a LOT of retirees. Most can't fit into a uniform, pass a medical or fitness test, and this isn't WWII (meaning tactics, training, and equipment changes drastically and rapidly. Not even using the same major systems as we used just 20 years ago.

Think back 20 years ago at the technology and equipment you were using, and it's probably almost obsolete today. Same with the military. You'd have to spend years just retraining the "experienced retirees" thereby defeating any point...

Finally, the military is TOP HEAVY in senior officers and Enlisted personnel. That is the LAST area the military needs backfilled. The military needs 18-22, fresh, easily trained, uninjured, eager to please recruits. Not 49-55 year old guys with a bad knees and back and a civilian attitude.

Shut up young un, and let us old farts have our dreams! (Our country needs us again!)

And stay off my lawn!

I saw the Las Angeles thing...I was like WTF, you want to be taken seriously?

Secondly, nothing is cited, it's just conjecture & opinion.

C'mon juk, ammoland? Really?

I read lots of stuff from all over. I even read your comments!

There are plenty of credible folks who are semi-literate, or less than careful with the keyboard. One misspelling does not make me disinclined to accept a premise.

There is/was a lawyer who participated on TOS (huskydawg or something like that) who's posts were painful to read; but apparently this did not greatly impact his ability to earn a living at practicing law.



Two things about this: one, as reported by Military Times (IIRC) and more than a few other sources, recruits are turning out without the ability to do even basic stuff like throw objects (see also: Army discontinues grenade throwing in basic training) or skills as simple as using a rifle scope.

second: there is some consensus among the tinfoil brigade and other prepping and alternative groups (like 3%'ers) that do believe former military are an essential foil against tyranny.


That is an interesting insight and useful to gauge the veracity of the article.

That's messed up. We aren't supposed to read other's comments. Right?

Same here, just a couple months over a year out, and told the exact same thing. But, I was offered to enlist as another MOS.
When all was said and done, I would've had to go through AIT all over again, loose rank etc etc. I had 8 1/2 years in.
I highly doubt there's much fact in that rumor.

I can't remember if we even had mags on that training exercise lol. Most of my unit's training exercises were about laying concertina wire

Us old farts ARE "The well regulated militia!"

No you aren't.

10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes


https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246

That's just sick!


IKR? Wondering how well that 'regulation' would go over, in a foxhole...