Drafting Guys Over 60.....
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> I'm over 60 and the Armed Forces say I'm too old to track down terrorists.
> (You can't be older than 42 to join the military.) They've got the whole thing backwards.
> Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys.
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> For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old 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.
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> Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. If we can't kill the enemy we'll complain them into submission. "My back hurts! I'm hungry! Where's the remote?"
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> An 18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war until you're at least old enough to drink. The average old guy, on the other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer, and a jaunt through the desert heat with a beer and an M-60 would do wonders for the old beer belly.
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> An 18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee.
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> If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them.
> In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brain-teaser.
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> Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we like soft food.
> They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. I can hear the Drill Sgt now, "Get down and give me ... er ... one."
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> Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
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> An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to carry on a conversation, and to wear pants without the top of his butt crack showing and his shorts sticking out. He's hasn't figured out that a pierced tongue catches food particles, and that a 400-watt speaker in the back seat of a Honda can rupture an eardrum, and that a baseball cap has a brim to shade eyes, not the back of his head.
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> These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
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> Let us old guys track down those cowards who attacked us on September 11. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million old farts with attitudes.
How to win the (any) war
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Name:
Dick Beard
Name:
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