Re: OT: sponge burning!
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On 02/26/07 17:14, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:08:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/26/07 14:57, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>>
>> This has always confused me: Who does *not* know that the purpose
>> of an Army (and, by extension, the Marines) is to "kill people and
>> break things"?
>>
> People who play America's Army?
Good point.
>> It's why they give you a rifle, teach you to love it, teach you to
>> hit what you aim with it, run you (chanting all the way) into the
>> ground, make you crawl thru pig entrails while shooting machine guns
>> overhead, and drill you over and over again to stab people with a
>> big scary-looking knife.
>>
> That's gross. I could have sworn it was cow entrails.
How could I have been so foolish? Cow entrails are sooo not as
gross as pig entrails...
>> Of course, the Marines do it better than the Army, but that's
>> another story.
>>
>>> - The Army has the best college benefit plan, throwing in quite a bit
>>> more money for someone who goes into a combat specialty than any other
>>> service does. So, I am not surprised that there population is much
>>> less educated, since many join just for the college benefits.
>>>
>> IOW, they are mercenaries.
>>
> Well, everybody fights for *something*, be it money or ideology.
But that's what delineates mercenary from (what?).
Seriously, no jokes or sarcasm: what's the term for non-mercenary
soldier?
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