{"id":1272,"date":"2009-04-28T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T23:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2009-08-24T16:23:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:23:45","slug":"a-new-approach-for-fighting-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"A NEW APPROACH TO FIGHTING WARS&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine sent this to me today.\u00a0 I had to share&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">New Direction for War: Send Service Vets over  60!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I&#8217;m too old to  track down terrorists. You can&#8217;t be older than 42 to join the military. They&#8217;ve  got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year old&#8217;s off to fight,  they ought to take us old guys&#8230;\u00a0 You shouldn&#8217;t be able to join a military unit  until you&#8217;re at least 35.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For starters&#8230;<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Researchers say 18-year-old&#8217;s  think about sex every 10 seconds. \u00a0Old guys only think about sex a couple of  times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to  concentrate on the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Young guys haven&#8217;t lived long enough to be  cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. &#8216;My back hurts! \u00a0I can&#8217;t  sleep, I&#8217;m tired and hungry&#8217; We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some  asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for  a while.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old doesn&#8217;t  even like to get \u00a0up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what  the hell. Besides, like I said, &#8216;I&#8217;m tired and can&#8217;t sleep and since I&#8217;m already  up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical  s-of-a-b&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If  \u00a0captured we couldn&#8217;t spill the beans because we&#8217;d forget where we put them. In  fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.<\/p>\n<p>Boot  camp would be easier for old guys. \u00a0We&#8217;re used to getting screamed and yelled at  and we&#8217;re used to soft food. We&#8217;ve also developed an appreciation for guns.  We&#8217;ve been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from  the screaming and yelling.<\/p>\n<p>They could lighten up on the obstacle course  however. I&#8217;ve been in combat and didn&#8217;t see a single 20-foot wall with rope  hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any push-ups after completing basic  training.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too.  I&#8217;ve never seen anyone outrun a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old has the whole  world ahead of him&#8230; He&#8217;s still learning to shave, to start up a conversation  with a pretty girl. \u00a0He still hasn&#8217;t figured out that a baseball cap has a brim  to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.<\/p>\n<p>These are all  great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before  sending them off into harm&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>Let us old guys track down those dirty  rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple  of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know  that their best years are already behind them.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\">***How about recruiting Women over 50  &#8230;with PMS !!! <\/span><\/h4>\n<p>You think Men have  attitudes !!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!!<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, put them on border patrol&#8230;.they will  have it secured the first night!<\/p>\n<p>Share this with your senior friends. It&#8217;s purposely  in big type so they can read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine sent this to me today.\u00a0 I had to share&#8230; New Direction for War: Send Service Vets over 60! I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I&#8217;m too old to track down terrorists. 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