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Drafting Guys Over 50
This is funny & obviously written by a Former Soldier... New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 50!
I am over 50 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 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 terrorist that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for awhile..
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10am. 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 terrorist.
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 never saw 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 outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start 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 million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons, who know that their best years are already behind them.
HEY!! How about recruiting Women over 50...in menopause!!! You think MEN have attitudes?? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!! If nothing else, put them on border patrol. They'll have it secured the first night!
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
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I had no idea what the Selective Service requirements were ... so when I bought this house, I sent in a change of address to them. I got back a very polite letter thanking me for trying to register, but also informing my that I was just too damn old for them. 
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
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I know he's joking but I did read a piece in nature magazine a few years ago about ant colonies and that they observed when ants went to war with one another (anecdotally was red ants against black in the article) the front line was mostly made up of the the old and infirm. The youngest and strongest hung back and protected the turf, food stores & queen.
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I'm still only in the early 40's age group, but heck yeah! Sign me back up!!
Oh, wait... they won't take me back, lol (Apparently Work Hard, Play Hard doesn't apply if you work *REALLY, REALLY* hard, hehe!).
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Like it! I think I qualify now, but I'm only 33 
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This could definitely solve our boomer retirement issue!
Blue ostriches on crack float on milkshakes between the sidewalk titans of gurglefitz. --YTown
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Thought this was a topic about Brandon Weeden. 
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That and the fact that most of the political leaders are 50 years or older.
No exemptions...
Welcome back, Joe, we missed you!
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The women don't need to be menopausal...a PMSing woman would do the trick as well. I'm a total biotch when PMSing, so don't pi$$ me off. If you do, you'd better run for cover! LOL!
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They should be the first to be drafted.
Blue ostriches on crack float on milkshakes between the sidewalk titans of gurglefitz. --YTown
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That's an idea...you can't run for office unless you have served in the military. I've never served...wanted to be a seal when i was in high school, but i figured that flat feet and some hearing problems would land me a gig peeling potatoes on a sub if i was lucky 
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