The Pentagon has decided to accept Senior Veterens for active duty at their last pay grade. Oh, boy. Another chance to break things!
As an old Armor Crewman from VietNam, I wouldn’t mind planting my a** in one of those Abrams for for a spin around Baghdad…
Ken,
We can show those kids a thing or two. I’m not as good as I once was, but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.! 
Steve Featherkile said:
Ken,We can show those kids a thing or two. I’m not as good as I once was, but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.!
or die tryin…
Veterans would stop the Iraq war and the Afghan war dead in their tracks , jest pull up a chair there , set a while and look at the beauty around , and drink cawfee with the natives of the same age . They in turn would talk some sense into the hot heads and everyone would exchange addresses for visits ,and wonder what all the fuss was about .
'course , nobody wins that way , so politicians on both sides on both continents would put a stop to it .
Dreams , Dreams . One day , maybe .
Ya know, Mike, that is a damn good idea. No one hates war more than the old soldier.
It’ll be Tommy this & Tommy that…and we’re glad to see ya again, Tommy!..All over again.
Wonder what would have happened if the survivors of the Western Front from both sides could have sat down over some coffee, tea or schnapps to remember, and then to decide if doing it again was really worth it…
Not the officer types, we can surmise what their answer would be. I’m talking about the snuffy, the grunt, the Infantry private soldier. I wonder what his answer would have been. I know what the medic’s answer would be.
Ahh, mebbe I need to get the rose tint out of my glasses…
I dunno, Steve. It happened during WWI. All the grunts on both sides got together on Christmas and played soccer, drank schnapps and sang Christmas Carols out in No-Man’s Land. Then again, these a**holes we’re fighting now don’t drink or sing Christmas carols… the soccer I don’t know about.
Steve, I don’t think your reality check is in the mail…yet. 
Oh no! the oldsters here drive bad enough in their Buicks, I shudder to think of one in an Abrams M1.
20mph thru downtown Baghdad with the left turn single left on! :-0
Around here it would be in the right lane with the right turn signal on…and then make a left turn…
Heheh! I like the “Matlock” gag.
Ken Brunt said:Ken,
As an old Armor Crewman from VietNam, I wouldn't mind planting my a** in one of those Abrams for for a spin around Baghdad...........;)
That wouldn’t hurt, things have been screwed-up so royally that one more drop on the same stone wouldn’t be noticed.