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Scheiss Meister

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  1. Personally, I wish that I could react that way. Shooting, moving, and communicating to destroy a threat is more fit to my training, and much easier. But that won't get this mission accomplished, and the mission is everything. Maybe another day, but not Saturday.
  2. Thanks for the suggestions. Sadly, my service was 40 years ago, and I no longer have any of my uniform. Not that it would fit, even if I did have it. I will get a nice USMC cap for the event, though. I am fully prepared to be beaten without resisting, but I don't know how I would handle my wife being struck. I have to prepare more for maintaining my discipline in such a case.
  3. I guess this is as good a place as any to ask my questions. My wife and I are going to the No Kings rally in Austin Saturday. We've been to a couple of small town marches, but never anything like this. We're going to make signs, and I'm going to carry an American flag, maybe the Marine Corps colors, too, for good measure. Should the signs be on sticks, or just hand held? I want them seen, but don't want them to be falsely labeled as weapons. What supplies should we bring? I'm bringing water for hydration and some old t-shirts to wet and use if tear gas gets tossed. What else do I need to bring? Thanks for the suggestions on how to dress. We'll definitely look like the respectable old farts that we are.
  4. Nope. Boomer "officially", but they keep moving the date frame. I have more in common with Gen X, though.
  5. Old guy talk incoming. You've been warned. When I was a kid both of my parents were teachers. My dad worked various jobs during the summer to make ends meet while my mom stayed home with us. Usually he or my mom were working on graduate degrees as well. Every day, including weekends, was the same: get up and eat breakfast, then my mom would put us out of the house saying, "Be back in when the street lights come on. Don't come back in before that unless someone is bleeding or dieing." Our city had a low cost summer program with swimming instruction, Red Cross Lifesaving classes, theater, crafts, and other sports and activities. In the mornings we would go to these, then run amok frm noon until dark. It was fabulous. And other than the fact that I post here, we turned out almost normal and nearly civilized.
  6. At full TO&E, a battalion is 811 strong. With transfers, separations, leave, and illness/injuries, it can be much lower.
  7. Hey, guys. Goat ropers need love, too.
  8. Look, I'm really not trying to dog on you, but having the US Military, be they active, reserve, or National Guard, kill or injure even one US citizen exercising their Constitutional rights is unacceptable. Kent State and the other instances are not "a decent track record". I say this as a US Marine, currently not in an active status. I know how I was trained and what my duty is. Harming US citizens exercising their rights is not part of that duty for me or anyone else in the military.
  9. What the fuck do you think those rifles, pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers, and mortars are for?
  10. Russia gonna Russia, I guess.
  11. I'm going to the No Kings protest at the Capitol next Saturday. I look forward to seeing the Texas National Guard there.
  12. Yes, it is. Every National Guardsman that I know who served since 2001 had at least one deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan during their service.
  13. That was nice. Let's do it again next season. I also want to thank JS1, troph, Pancho, and many others for sharing their knowledge and insight of softball, volleyball, women's basketball, and the other women's sports with the rest of us. I've learned a lot from y'all.
  14. As long as cities offer good benefits packages, water and wastewater jobs will be good avenues for smart folks who don't want to go to college and want to make a difference in the world. The pay, especially in smaller cities, can be miserably low, but good benefits can help make up for that. If the benefits get eroded, as some places are doing, it's not such an attractive career. I applaud Pflugerville ISD for doing that. More such programs are desperately needed. I don't understand why TSTC doesn't have a program where an person can get good classroom training and internship like experience and finish with a C license, ready to get a job.
  15. That would be bad for business. I'm glad that they got the repairs done quickly. The shit must flow.
  16. This is infuriating, but not surprising. We don't take care of our vets, so we will definitely fuck over our allies' vets, even those to whom we owe a great debt. If I was a citizen of any other nation on the planet, I would never ever trust the US to keep its commitments on anything.
  17. I'm sure that I'm not the only one here who was looking at 18 wheelers and box trucks differently this morning on the way to church.
  18. You can't be high all day if you don't start first thing in the morning.
  19. Looks like something my dad would have done.
  20. "And when he gets to heaven St. Peter he will tell one more Marine reporting, sir I've served my time in Hell." Semper Fidelis and thank you to every Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Coast Guardsman, and Airman who gave their life for their country and my freedoms.
  21. That batter should wear one in the ribs his next at bat. First pitch.
  22. That kid is going to have nightmares about that.
  23. A pussy ass aggy. But that's redundant.
  24. The fuck it's not. Maybe not #1, but definitely a road trip song. #1 should be Traveling Texas, or What I Like About Texas.
  25. Those fuckheads are testing to prove that the placebo works, not whether the vaccine does.
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