PLT Sarge wrote:
As usual this post as most of yours is just a lot of ranting and raving without any solution. Most time I just read your posts, laugh and delete. I have to address a statement you made in this one. "Give those lazy National Guard units some honest work and a chance to gain some military medals". I spent eleven years active duty and twenty-seven years reserve. I was an instructor at a Military Academy. When I wasn't at the Academy, because I was an instructor my unit would send me to different posts all over America and other countries for training. In the Army we have, Train the Trainer. I would go back to my unit and train. We were not lazy, on week-end drills we were training. Every time we were matched with regular Army, we kicked ass. Whenever there was a mission stateside or foreign, we were called. We have another saying, let no soldier die because of lack of training. All the missions that we made, did not lose one soldier. As far as medals. I have a chest full, got some I haven't pinned on yet. Why, don't mean shit. It's not about the medals, I could care less. They just give them to me. It was about my people, my platoon. Training them to survive whatever shit was thrown at us, wherever in the world we had to go. We did this to give you the right and freedom to mock and degrade us. Any time you or anyone degrades the fine young men and women that I trained and led into the shitholes of the world, I will call you out. =rumitoid]Hadrian's Wall had a stone base and a stone wall. There were milecastles with two turrets in between. There was a fort about every five Roman miles. From north to south, the wall comprised a ditch, wall, military way and vallum, another ditch with adjoining mounds. It is thought the milecastles were staffed with static garrisons, whereas the forts had fighting garrisons of infantry and cavalry. In addition to the wall's defensive military role, its gates may have been customs posts, where huge tariffs on burritos and gorditos and pinatas could be made today. It was constantly patrolled day and night, yet now we can have the benefit of spotlights and surveillance cameras. Give those lazy National Guard Units some honest work and a chance to gain some military medals.
"Scholars disagree over how much of a threat the inhabitants of northern Britain really presented and whether there was any economic advantage in defending and garrisoning a fixed line of defences like the Wall, rather than conquering and annexing what has become the Scottish Lowlands and defending the territory with a loose arrangement of forts." Like that assessment of then, for true security now, Trump should just conquer Mexico. After all, according to him, they are mostly "criminals and rapists." The honest Mexican accepts his life in a Drug Cartel and will not cross our border.
Building Trump's Wall by Hadrian design has an unexpected benefit: tourism. Billions of dollars each year could be realized, to offset costs, from "snowbirds" in their RVs and other Americans visiting and traveling the length of The Wall. Government sponsored gift shops, restaurants (selling real American fare), Paintball concessions offering "Hunt an Illegal" games, and so forth, could be a bonanza. Maybe even staged re-enactments of desperate Mexicans drowning trying to cross the Rio Grande for a chance at a better life or ICE raids seizing DACAs at school or jobs. Endless possibilities.
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Wow, you are such a wah-wah boy. Always with the military service supposedly acting as over-speech. Chill your jets. I was joking about lazy National Guard. Good Americans. Patriots. I am a Vet. No medals but the basic things, like a combat ribbon and sharpshooter. Yet in America, the last i heard, our voices are equal. I do not mock or degrade our service men and women. Never have. If you a beef with what I say, argue as a citizen not some medal-bedazzled veteran. Do not try to give extra authority to your words by your past in the military. Thank you for your service. You have been of exceptional dedication to this nation. But that is not a trump card on issues. Just present an argument, not a resume.