Vietnam war 50 years on.

[Katiebee]

As my dad says, it gives you skills few others appreciate.

Like being able to call an air or artillery strike, or shoot a moving target at 300 meters.

Or survive in extreme circumstances.

[watcher1]

As my dad says, it gives you skills few others appreciate.

Like being able to call an air or artillery strike, or shoot a moving target at 300 meters.

Or survive in extreme circumstances.

What?  Aren't those great jobs to have on one's resume?

[Katiebee]

I suppose they are, ... If you work for the CIA.

[gomez38555]

HLA appreciates them too 

[Katiebee]

So does Xie., formerly Blackwater.

[watcher1]

I remember my first real job application and under Skills, I wrote in explosive and demolitions and the interviewer asked how I thought that skill would be needed in the job I was applying for.  Maybe I should have also written that I was qualified to call in air or artillery support, since I also humped an Prc-25 for a while. 

[Katiebee]

Had to look up that nomenclature. You should have emphasized flexibility in meeting unknown, recently revealed expectations, ability to plan and execute plans both under direction and independently. The ability to work both as an individual and as a team. The ability to work under adverse conditions and short deadlines. The ability to learn and put processes into operation.

See?  You had more skills than you knew!

[insatiable]

As my dad says, it gives you skills few others appreciate.

Like being able to call an air or artillery strike, or shoot a moving target at 300 meters.

Or survive in extreme circumstances.

Too bad they didn't taught one how to cope with finding your sister raped, tortured and murdered, all because she won't criticise her brother, who is serving in Vietnam. And then you find your dad couldn't take it and put a gun to his head. All your family destroyed, and still other people blame you, because if you haven't volunteered for military, your family might probably have remain alive. This, I believe, is one of those extreme circumstances too.

[watcher1]

Had to look up that nomenclature. You should have emphasized flexibility in meeting unknown, recently revealed expectations, ability to plan and execute plans both under direction and independently. The ability to work both as an individual and as a team. The ability to work under adverse conditions and short deadlines. The ability to learn and put processes into operation.

See?  You had more skills than you knew!

See, Katie.  I needed you with me when I was filling the application form out. 

[Katiebee]

As my dad says, it gives you skills few others appreciate.

Like being able to call an air or artillery strike, or shoot a moving target at 300 meters.

Or survive in extreme circumstances.

Too bad they didn't taught one how to cope with finding your sister raped, tortured and murdered, all because she won't criticise her brother, who is serving in Vietnam. And then you find your dad couldn't take it and put a gun to his head. All your family destroyed, and still other people blame you, because if you haven't volunteered for military, your family might probably have remain alive. This, I believe, is one of those extreme circumstances too.

unfortunately, that is when you need the rule if law to function. Attitudes that drive that kind I behavior have no justification, no place in  a civilized society. I would cheerfully have nailed their scrotums to the floor of an abandoned wooden building, hamstrung their legs, given them one rusty run can lid amongst them, set fire to the building, and left.