Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Cole

You mother fucker...

Talked it over with the woman, she thinks Boxing Day will be a better day to leave anyhow, and we'll have less time constraints. She'll be off school and won't be back until the second week in January, plus New Years in a foreign city will be cool.

Anyhow, drop me a PM when you're here and we can meet up in... Waterloo I think it is and grab a beer at BeerTown

Aww man... too easy.

[go_a_way1]

Originally Posted by Cole

I just may. Seattle area is about 37 hours straight there. I'd say that Calgary is an extra 8 hours. That stop could certainly be arranged.

I will have the wife with me though. Don't want to double your pizza buying obligations.

lol you can both share a pizza

[Cole]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Aww man... too easy.

Go die

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Cole

Go die

Looking forward to it!







...meeting up, I mean, not dying.

[Packofcrows]

LOL! Made me laugh.

[Cole]

Ugh...

One of the guys I'm working with started going off about reservists tonight. It took every ounce of self control I had to not say "let's step outside and you can go step by step why my service means nothing to this beautiful country of ours"

He didn't seem to understand that just because a reservist didn't get a chance to go overseas, that doesn't make their accomplishments any less important. That kind of shit really bums me out.

I never got the chance to go when I put my name in because I had just turned 18, and was in college. My CO said to me that I should finish up my studies first and then make that call. I'm still full of regret that I didn't push it harder. But, on the bright side, I do not have PTSD and I do not have to fight with Veterans Affairs to be able to get the help that I'm entitled to, unlike too many of my friends.

Edit: this is compounded by another person (who is in fact a member on here) who also discredited my service because I never went overseas.

Pro tip: try shining then lacing up your combat boots and being berated every free weekend you have when you're 16 or 17 while doing your basic training. Missing things like prom, college convocation, deaths of family members all because you signed on the dotted line and agreed to unlimited liability.

Second edit: he also didn't seem to care when I mentioned that for 3 years, I was part of the brigades high readiness team that would deal with any local happening, from forest fires to flood relief to whatever the fuck else might happen that local authorities couldn't handle. For those wondering what my brigades area of responsibility was, it was all of Ontario.

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Cole

Ugh...

One of the guys I'm working with started going off about reservists tonight. It took every ounce of self control I had to not say "let's step outside and you can go step by step why my service means nothing to this beautiful country of ours"

He didn't seem to understand that just because a reservist didn't get a chance to go overseas, that doesn't make their accomplishments any less important. That kind of shit really bums me out.

I never got the chance to go when I put my name in because I had just turned 18, and was in college. My CO said to me that I should finish up my studies first and then make that call. I'm still full of regret that I didn't push it harder. But, on the bright side, I do not have PTSD and I do not have to fight with Veterans Affairs to be able to get the help that I'm entitled to, unlike too many of my friends.

Yeah exactly, my entire state is deployed right now. I hope they all stay safe.

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[Cole]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

Yeah exactly, my entire state is deployed right now. I hope they all stay safe.

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Godspeed to all them. Wtf is going on in CT? I'm super out of the loop when I work, don't have much time to catch up on things going on in the world.

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Cole

Godspeed to all them. Wtf is going on in CT? I'm super out of the loop when I work, don't have much time to catch up on things going on in the world.

Nothing here, they are probably getting sent to the middle-east.

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[Cole]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

Nothing here, they are probably getting sent to the middle-east.

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Shit. That's rough. I'm so glad that Canada has ended all combat operations (outside of SF stuff) in the Middle East. And I guess our air attack stuff too. But them fly boys are far safer than the ground troops.

[Phijkchu]

Originally Posted by Cole

Ugh...

One of the guys I'm working with started going off about reservists tonight. It took every ounce of self control I had to not say "let's step outside and you can go step by step why my service means nothing to this beautiful country of ours"

He didn't seem to understand that just because a reservist didn't get a chance to go overseas, that doesn't make their accomplishments any less important. That kind of shit really bums me out.

I never got the chance to go when I put my name in because I had just turned 18, and was in college. My CO said to me that I should finish up my studies first and then make that call. I'm still full of regret that I didn't push it harder. But, on the bright side, I do not have PTSD and I do not have to fight with Veterans Affairs to be able to get the help that I'm entitled to, unlike too many of my friends.

Edit: this is compounded by another person (who is in fact a member on here) who also discredited my service because I never went overseas.

Pro tip: try shining then lacing up your combat boots and being berated every free weekend you have when you're 16 or 17 while doing your basic training. Missing things like prom, college convocation, deaths of family members all because you signed on the dotted line and agreed to unlimited liability.

Second edit: he also didn't seem to care when I mentioned that for 3 years, I was part of the brigades high readiness team that would deal with any local happening, from forest fires to flood relief to whatever the fuck else might happen that local authorities couldn't handle. For those wondering what my brigades area of responsibility was, it was all of Ontario.

If you served you served. I don't care if all you did was punch keys or sit pretty in a room but you are doing more than the majority of the people in your country.

[Teseo]

Originally Posted by Phijkchu

If you served you served. I don't care if all you did was punch keys or sit pretty in a room but you are doing more than the majority of the people in your country.

Meanwhile someone is banging your wife/girlfriend

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Teseo

Meanwhile someone is banging your wife/girlfriend

The more the merrier.

Just don't touch my knees.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Cole

Ugh...

One of the guys I'm working with started going off about reservists tonight. It took every ounce of self control I had to not say "let's step outside and you can go step by step why my service means nothing to this beautiful country of ours"

Wait. Did he serve?

Actually, he's either an ass hat, or a total fucking douchebag. He's a garden variety ass hat if he served. God help him if he didn't.