OT: Raise Draft Age = this is a JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks 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. You shouldn't be able to join a military
unit until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about s@x every 10 seconds.
Old guys only think about s@x a couple of times a day, leaving us more than
28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a
dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry' We
are impatient and maybe letting us kill some ####### that desperately
deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.

An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always
get up early to pee so what the heck. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and
can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some
fanatical s-of-a-b....

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 brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and
yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation
for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the
house, away from the screaming and yelling.

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 push ups after completing basic training.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never
seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to
shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't
figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back
of his head.

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.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last
thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million p/oed off old f@rts
with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are
already behind them.

***How about recruiting Women over 50 ...with PMS !!! You think Men have
attitudes !!! Ohhhhh hhhhh my God!!!

If nothing else, put us on border patrol....we will have it secured the
first night!

I hope you have seen Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" which pretty much explains it all about who we are and where we're at.

I was very lucky to be at the end of the Vietnam "fight" - didn't serve- but Dad was in WW II and Korea. Makes for a very strong family to this day. Kids nowadays expect everything given to them - mine included. Just my o.o2

PS: I'm only 55 so I'm still not old enough - LOL. Do have guns and ammo if we were to be attacked!

Nuff said.

If you were an enemy, who would you rather face, some young stud with a horomone attack or some grouchy old geezer who hasn't much to lose?

Half of them old goats would go out and forget where they were or how to get back.

I can see an Afghan interrogator now, "tell me your name, rank and serial number!"..... ...Uhhhhh h? Come now you Christian Dog, what is your name? "I just don"t rightly remember there Mr. Mujibar." Oh by the way..you wouldn"t happen to have some Ex-Lax would you? I ain"t $hit for 4 hours...somethin" must be wrong.

No, no..that would never work. The MRE"s (Meal"s Refusing to Exit) would cause the Army of Geezers to grind to a halt within 24 hours.

Haven"t you ever wondered where the term, "Old man, you"re full of $hit." came from? Empirical observation, of course.

I can hear the platoon leader when reaching the operations area....."All right you fossils, dig your latrine holes and dig"em deep...things are liable to get $hitty around here, at any time. I want two men on that TPD (toilet paper dispenser) and an SS ($hit shovel) in every hole. Keep your TD (turd deflector) up at all times...nobody wants to catch incoming that don"t belong to him. If you hear your buddy yell, "I"ve been $hit, keep your a$$ DOWN! If it turns out just be a gas attack, remember it won"t kill you and not to panic.

That is a scenario you"d have with Geezers. It just wouldn"t work. Trust me...I know. I am a semi-Geezer myself.