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Originally posted by Greg B
Well said! People think that way about the Coast Guard. Lemme tell you, back when I was in high school deciding on what branch to join ( missed 'Nam by 18 months ) the LAST place I was gonna sign up was the Coast Guard. Them boys saw action every freakin' day. First tour my best buddy was on was a multi-million dollar haul of dope and diamonds. Had to shoot a guy too. Coast Guard is no friggin' joke nor are reserves or National Guard. It's not a sit back and wait job. Often you may find Guardsman using technology the main branches don't use. Guardsman not only have to worry about multi-environmental combat but URBAN to boot! That's the scary shit, the urban stuff the guys in Iraq are fighting.
Don't take Guardsman for short by any means. In some respects it's way tougher because they have to consider the strong probability that they'll have to go into domestic situations and any cop will tell you those are the most dangerous situations of all. That takes special-special training.
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Um, dude. Did you miss the humor in that piece you quoted? Ya know, like:
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it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then. If only. Once a month, for an entire weekend ? I'm talking eight hours Saturday and Sunday ? we would meet in a dank, cold airplane hangar. The temperature in that hangar would sometimes get down to 40 degrees, and very often I had to put on long underwear, which was so restrictive I suffered from an acute vascular disorder for days afterward.
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that's some funny shit
