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Re: Joining the Reserves....
why badda look pan di tredd if yu nah guh respond?
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caw mi nuh know wah fi say
i wudden dweet caw mi nuh cut out dem ways dere. also mi spreadsheet nuh up to date so mi nuh sure wat ur circumstances are.
u mek a pros and cons list?Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shine_Eye_Girl</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Weh oonu tink </div></div>
Jamaica or America ?Comment
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too much war going on..i wouldn't do it.Comment
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Maybe if you gave us some rational, as to why you would like to join, we could better answer your question.Comment
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I would do it. Been considering it since the year start
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me woulda rather live under bridge (an I am NOT the outdoors type into roughing it) before mi guh jine dat mess. see dem a pick fight N Korea too..bout dem a guh board the people dem ship
unnu mad
mi nuh need dat kinda discipline inna mi lifeComment
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am always curious though
what would possess(sp cant spell right yah now) someone to join
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since u quote SEG, mi wi lef dat question aloone an go to mi bed. Nite niteComment
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Don't do it!Comment
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If you could actually choose what missions you would go on, then I would say join.
But you have to really trust the gov. And look what we had for 8 years. These fools were dressing up their defense dept war briefs with tanks and bible verses.
After the towers went down, I knew a lot of people who were going to sign up, including me and lots in my crew. However, we sobered quickly and saw we would be under the command of Bush.
I mean, I dunno. I think our armed forces should *really* be volunteer. Like you should choose when to go to war and if you will. That way the cause must be truly just.Comment
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<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Neo-Nazis are in the Army now</span></span>
June 15, 2009 | On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him.
[T]he military ran in Fogarty's family. His grandfather had served during World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and his dad had been a Marine in Vietnam. At 22, Fogarty resolved to follow in their footsteps. "I wanted to serve my country," he says.
Army regulations prohibit soldiers from participating in racist groups, and recruiters are instructed to keep an eye out for suspicious tattoos. Before signing on the dotted line, enlistees are required to explain any tattoos. At a Tampa recruitment office, though, Fogarty sailed right through the signup process. "They just told me to write an explanation of each tattoo, and I made up some stuff, and that was that," he says. Soon he was posted to Fort Stewart in Georgia, where he became part of the 3rd Infantry Division.
Fogarty's ex-girlfriend, intent on destroying his new military career, sent a dossier of photographs to Fort Stewart. The photos showed Fogarty attending white supremacist rallies and performing with his band, Attack. "They hauled me before some sort of committee and showed me the pictures," Fogarty says. "I just denied them and said my girlfriend was a spiteful [censored]." He adds: "They knew what I was about. But they let it go because I'm a great soldier."
In 2003, Fogarty was sent to Iraq. For two years he served in the military police, escorting officers, including generals, around the hostile country. He says he was granted top-secret clearance and access to battle plans. Fogarty speaks with regret that he "never had any kill counts." But he says his time in Iraq increased his racist resolve.
"I hate Arabs more than anybody, for the simple fact I've served over there and seen how they live," he tells me. "They're just a backward people. Them and the Jews are just disgusting people as far as I'm concerned. Their customs, everything to do with the Middle East, is just repugnant to me."
Because of his tattoos and his racist comments, most of his buddies and his commanding officers were aware of his Nazism. "They all knew in my unit," he says. "They would always kid around and say, 'Hey, you're that skinhead!'" But no one sounded an alarm to higher-ups. "I would volunteer for all the hardest missions, and they were like, 'Let Fogarty go.' They didn't want to get rid of me."
Fogarty left the Army in 2005 with an honorable discharge. He says he was asked to reenlist. He declined. He was sick of the system.
The presence of white supremacists in the military first triggered concern in 1976. At Camp Pendleton in California, a group of black Marines attacked white Marines they mistakenly believed to be in the KKK. The resulting investigation uncovered a KKK chapter at the base and led to the jailing or transfer of 16 Klansmen. Reports of Klan activity among soldiers and Marines surfaced again in the 1980s, spurring President Reagan's Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, to condemn military participation in white supremacist organizations.
Then, in 1995, a black couple was murdered by two neo-Nazi paratroopers around Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The murder investigation turned up evidence that 22 soldiers at Fort Bragg were known to be extremists. That year, language was added to a Department of Defense directive, explicitly prohibiting participation in "organizations that espouse supremacist causes" or "advocate the use of force or violence."
Today a complete ban on membership in racist organizations appears to have been lifted — though the proliferation of white supremacists in the military is difficult to gauge. The military does not track them as a discrete category, coupling them with gang members. But one indication of the scope comes from the FBI.
Following an investigation of white supremacist groups, a 2008 FBI report declared: "Military experience — ranging from failure at basic training to success in special operations forces — is found throughout the white supremacist extremist movement." In white supremacist incidents from 2001 to 2008, the FBI identified 203 veterans. Most of them were associated with the National Alliance and the National Socialist Movement, which promote anti-Semitism and the overthrow of the U.S. government, and assorted skinhead groups.
Because the FBI focused only on reported cases, its numbers don't include the many extremist soldiers who have managed to stay off the radar. But its report does pinpoint why the white supremacist movements seek to recruit veterans — they "may exploit their accesses to restricted areas and intelligence or apply specialized training in weapons, tactics, and organizational skills to benefit the extremist movement."
In fact, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">since the movement's inception, its leaders have encouraged members to enlist in the U.S. military as a way to receive state-of-the-art combat training, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, in preparation for a domestic race war. </span></span>The concept of a race war is central to extremist groups, whose adherents imagine an eruption of violence that pits races against each other and the government.
Geoffrey Millard, an organizer for Iraq Veterans Against the War, served in Iraq for 13 months, beginning in 2004, as part of the 42nd Infantry Division. "The military is attractive to white supremacists," Millard says, "because the war itself is racist."
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Re: Joining the Reserves....
Well I've been thinking about it for some time now. My dad is a retired Sgt. in the USAF and I know about all the benefits. He was in Desert Storm, but not in combat. Although he retired years ago, he still works for the USAF as a Aircraft Technician....he used to repair planes for the USAF, but now he travels the country to trains others.
My cousin is in the Reserves and she loves it. The commitment is not the same as the Army, Navy or Marines. However, in times of war, you MAY be deployed.
In the end, I'm looking the the long term benefits...
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Shine_Eye_Girl, do what you feel is best for you.
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