Service guarantees citizenship.

[IndianaJones]

Would you like to know more?

[Dr. Strange]

1. I don't want to be a trooper! n/t

[XemaSab]

2. Is that what the guy in the airport bathroom told you?

:scared:

[Clintonista2]

10. lol I'm in the library and laughed REALLY LOUD at that

Everyone looked at me

[unsavedtrash]

3. Everyone is doing their part. Are you?

These are the rules. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks
Rico's Roughnecks!

[AllegroRondo]

4. the book was much better than the film

[Dr. Strange]

5. That's such a cliche,

but, man, in this case it is SO true!

[DarkTirade]

9. Not so much 'better' as 'completely effing different'. :)

And better.

[jobendorfer]

6. I run into this thought a lot.

As an exercise:
make a list of Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Senators, and Representatives since the end of WWII.
Put a star next to the name if they did some time in the armed forces.
Then convince me they did any better (or worse) at their jobs than the ones who didn't.

For followup:
Look up "Fundamental Attribution Error".

J,
feeling cranky today

[QMPMom]

7. If that is true, then they should also extend it to the spouses and

stop the deportation proceedings against the woman whose husband is being deployed for the third time in 4 years. She was brought illegally to the USA when she was 5 years old and faces deportation while he is away. She had no choice in what her parents did when she was five. This couple have small children who are US citizens.

It's horrible what they are doing to this family.

This was on TV this morning. I will post a link if I find one online.

Edited to add: This is *not* the case of the wife of the US soldier that is missing in Iraq. This is a different case. The wife of the US soldier missing in Iraq has had the deportation proceedings against her dropped.

[ikojo]

8. I think this was done back during the civil war as well

Then it was primarily Irish immigrants who were the alleged beneficiaries of such a provision.

[Xipe Totec]

11. It is an interesting concept

And it has been tried before.

The Spartans, the Aztecs, the French (foreign legion).

It could work.

Heinlein wasn't totally off the wall.

[Dr. Strange]

12. Heinlein was an interesting fellow...

That Lazarus Long guy, though...
:rofl:

[Deja Q]

13. Whose country am I going to service? I hope it's this one I found on the map:

[bamacrat]

14. Sounds like the Army's/B*sh's slogan.

And what could be there strategy for Iran. Think about it 10-20 million man army, fuck Iran let's fight China.

[martymar64]

15. Got a bug problem, ma'am?

The movie was fun, despite the fascist overtones.
Leave it to Heinlein and Veerhoeven to glorify fascism.