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Post by Elizabeth on Nov 13, 2017 22:18:16 GMT
I didn't, of course. But anyone here? Or maybe even been through a war in your country?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2018 11:34:41 GMT
I didn't, of course. But anyone here? Or maybe even been through a war in your country? u are obviously trying to recruit soldiers from here to protect your kingdom |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 22:46:17 GMT
I didn't, of course. But anyone here? Or maybe even been through a war in your country? u are obviously trying to recruit soldiers from here to protect your kingdom Elaborate? |
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Post by mazarick on Jul 25, 2018 0:28:39 GMT
I have never fought in a war. The only war that I witnessed the effects of were the Viet Nam war in the 60s and early 70s when I was coming of age. I really appreciate Heimdallr's service. When I was coming of age, a person in the Green Berets was Bob Smith. When he did a "tour of duty" in Vietnam, they dropped him off in North Vietnam along the Ho Chi Mihn trail. His job was to wait until NV soldiers were bringing POWs to stay in the Hanoi Hilton and cut off the heads of all the NV soldiers with the "wire trick" and guide the POWs back to S. Viet Nam. He was the only NCO that provided hand to hand combat training to Green Beret officers. He was one bad hombre. I was 17 when I knew him and have lost touch with him, but he can probably still be found hanging around with other Green Berets at Ft. Bragg. He probably works for CGI at Ft Bragg.
I saw enough of war to know that it had a seamy underside such that I didn't want to get involved with it. I didn't tell you about the Club Sargent in Viet Nam that put his money in a Red Chinese bank so that the US military couldn't figure out how much money he had. There was also a case where soldiers were putting heroin that they acquired from Vietnam on dead soldier's bodies and taking it thru Seymour Johnson Airbase near Goldsboro where other soldiers would remove the heroin. This case was prosecuted after I left Fayetteville but was common knowledge when I was there.
I had enough of war growing up.
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Post by MEGA on Jul 25, 2018 0:32:12 GMT
every day.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:54:41 GMT
u are obviously trying to recruit soldiers from here to protect your kingdom Elaborate?  . only Queen is familiar with my ways. |
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 17, 2018 22:24:29 GMT
I may go to eastern Ukraine in a year, on the Azov side. It's a pretty dead conflict but I'd still like the experience. Have some friends already there.
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Post by lyssyj on Aug 18, 2018 12:59:15 GMT
I may go to eastern Ukraine in a year, on the Azov side. It's a pretty dead conflict but I'd still like the experience. Have some friends already there. your expirience will be about drinking only. Or rather useless trainings about make mob mentality. Also exists enought photoes about gey expirience there. Anyway wish you luck - romanian in nazy batallion it's about true nordic spirit with no doubts. |
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Post by guachelin on Oct 7, 2018 17:13:00 GMT
Yes, Viet nam, where I survived the Tet Offensive because of my friendship with some local VC, also some military actions, which were really wars, and illegal invasions of sovereign countries.
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 7, 2018 18:23:36 GMT
Yes, Viet nam, where I survived the Tet Offensive because of my friendship with some local VC, also some military actions, which were really wars, and illegal invasions of sovereign countries. Wow what impression did going to war leave on you? |
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Post by guachelin on Oct 8, 2018 2:08:47 GMT
Yes, Viet nam, where I survived the Tet Offensive because of my friendship with some local VC, also some military actions, which were really wars, and illegal invasions of sovereign countries.  what impression did going to war leave on you? Hard to say. Too much adrenalin, saw and smelled things, like human decay, that no one should ever see or smell, and the noise.
My impression is that mass slaughter which is war is nothing anyone should see, what appalls me is those, even team mates, who reveled in it all as though it was a badge of honor, an event marking a passage into manhood.
But it didn't leave me with PTSD, nothing does, that is not the way I am built, either from cultural or genetic DNA.
I take things in stride, and as lessons learned and don't carry it with me.
My impression though is in that direction we should not go. and Viet Nam was just one event, although the longest one in my career. I can not even imagine the effect that Iraq and Afghanistan has had on the current crop, especially with back to back tours.
The Viet namese idea of an IED was to fill the frame of a bicycle with C4, scooped out of unexploded munitions, attached an electronic fuse and detonator cord, park it next to a cafe or open air "Howard Johson, what we called the mom and pop cafes that specialized in pho and coffee and walk around the corner, squeezing the detonator that they scrounged from Claymores.
The Iraq's and Afghani's have upped the game, creating the most horrendous and maiming injuries imaginable, reminiscent of what one would see on the battlefields of the civil war and in WWI, but worse the effet on the brain of these horrendous concussion waves from exploding IED's are taking a toll unlike anything seen in Viet Nam.
I would see Viet Nam was a cake walk compared to what these troops have had to endure in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least they haven't had to endure the smell of burning flesh from napalm, or bounced in the air from the load of 500 lb bombs dropped 1/2 mile distant from B-52's.
Different wars, different munitions different technology and all of it unnecessary and a waste. I lost a team in Viet Nam, and in the rear view mirror, not then, the war was unjustifiable, I didn't realize that seismograph readings were being taken when bombs were dropped in Hanoi and northViet nam. Seismograph to determine if there was oil and how much.
Viet Nam was no more a threat than was Iraq under Saddam. And the politico's in America care not a whit how dictators treat the citizens of their own country, except when they want to use them as justification for waging war.
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 8, 2018 2:43:08 GMT
what impression did going to war leave on you? Hard to say. Too much adrenalin, saw and smelled things, like human decay, that no one should ever see or smell, and the noise.
My impression is that mass slaughter which is war is nothing anyone should see, what appalls me is those, even team mates, who reveled in it all as though it was a badge of honor, an event marking a passage into manhood. But it didn't leave me with PTSD, nothing does, that is not the way I am built, either from cultural or genetic DNA. I take things in stride, and as lessons learned and don't carry it with me. My impression though is in that direction we should not go. and Viet Nam was just one event, although the longest one in my career. I can not even imagine the effect that Iraq and Afghanistan has had on the current crop, especially with back to back tours. The Viet namese idea of an IED was to fill the frame of a bicycle with C4, scooped out of unexploded munitions, attached an electronic fuse and detonator cord, park it next to a cafe or open air "Howard Johson, what we called the mom and pop cafes that specialized in pho and coffee and walk around the corner, squeezing the detonator that they scrounged from Claymores. The Iraq's and Afghani's have upped the game, creating the most horrendous and maiming injuries imaginable, reminiscent of what one would see on the battlefields of the civil war and in WWI, but worse the effet on the brain of these horrendous concussion waves from exploding IED's are taking a toll unlike anything seen in Viet Nam.
I would see Viet Nam was a cake walk compared to what these troops have had to endure in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least they haven't had to endure the smell of burning flesh from napalm, or bounced in the air from the load of 500 lb bombs dropped 1/2 mile distant from B-52's.
Different wars, different munitions different technology and all of it unnecessary and a waste. I lost a team in Viet Nam, and in the rear view mirror, not then, the war was unjustifiable, I didn't realize that seismograph readings were being taken when bombs were dropped in Hanoi and northViet nam. Seismograph to determine if there was oil and how much.
Viet Nam was no more a threat than was Iraq under Saddam. And the politico's in America care not a whit how dictators treat the citizens of their own country, except when they want to use them as justification for waging war.
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Post by thesageofmainstreet on May 2, 2019 0:30:53 GMT
I didn't, of course. But anyone here? Or maybe even been through a war in your country? In Vietnam, I met Death many times. But we never became friends. |
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Post by PISTON1246 on May 3, 2019 23:12:17 GMT
I SIGNED UP TO BE DRAFTED IN THE SECURITY FORCES BUT SO FAR THEY DID NOT WANT ME TO STAY IN THEIR SERVICE.
I HAVE NOT BEEN IN AN OFFICIAL WAR BEFORE BUT I AM NOT INTENDING FOR MY LACK OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE US ARMED FORCES BE USED AS AN EXCUSE TO NOT FIGHT WHEN DUTY CALLS.
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. only Queen is familiar with my ways. 
what impression did going to war leave on you?