CAPTION the fortuneate son who is always right behind the troops

[underpants]

[PurityOfEssence]

1. Man, they look sharp; Laura says they even dress themselves, too.

Geez. Good thing we got them around.

[lebkuchen]

2. Excerpts from troops' letters in today's Stars and Stripes

*Interesting that congressmen visited Iraq over the summer and reported they didn't see a morale problem. Stripes letters are full of morale issue letters. Stripes hasn't reported how that "hefty" $5,000 bonus to reenlist was panning out, heh, heh. :)

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I know I don't have the worst story around, and I'm definitely not the only legitimate hardship case. But I do know when I'm being lied to and kept in the dark. I'm sick of not being told anything, being lied to continuously about what can and can't be done, and not being stood up for by my appointed leaders. If readers have similar problems, I encourage them to raise hell, question their leaders and put their problems on their leaders' consciences.

I will leave the military an angry, financially broke ruined man come next April, and I will never, ever endorse the Army as a career choice to anyone. I truly regret ever enlisting in the National Guard. If retaliation for this letter comes upon me, so be it. I've done nothing but spoken the whole truth. God bless every soldier in this quagmire. I pray for them all every day.

Camp Arlington, Kuwait


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We don't believe anything the Army or our unit says to us. We've been shafted so much since we were thrown into a unit for deployment. Trust is not an option. I guess the Army forgot its Army values.

We will be apart from our loved ones longer than our active duty brothers. If our active duty counterparts like it so much, stop loss them and let the guys whose ETS dates have come and gone go home. I can guarantee that most of us will never re-enlist again.

Kuwait

[Zero Gravitas]

3. He's a

prissy little prick isn't he?

[texastoast]

4. I'm glad young men seem to do what old men tell them to. What a deal!

[7th_Sephiroth]

5. not even the marching band

would look at this dumbshit as he walked by, he has no friends and no one talks to him

[sexybomber]

6. *W surreptitiously smacks the Air Force guy's ass*

W: "It's like in football, I'm telling him he's doing a good job. Right?"

[cosmicdot]

7. W is thinking: wish I could have worn my flight suit ... but, no ...

... they wouldn't let me ... but, I'll pretend I've got it on ... oh, yeah, that's it ... I've got that feeling ... feeling all butch and manly and stuff ...

little did W know that his left pinkie was blowing his fantasy

[VOX]

8. "That guy with the trombone just goosed me...and I *like* it!"

:kick:

[this_side_up]

9. Whoa! Look at

the fingers on the left hand. Nerve damage?

Plus during his UN speech, the right hand and arm
had mega tremors and the left index and thumb had minor
twitches or something that reminded me of the Pope.

[Zero Gravitas]

10. Withdrawal

They made him lay off the booze for a good 12 hours before the UN speech.

[myomy]

11. These assholes are facing the wrong way.

.

[cosmicdot]

12. W reminisces his cheerleading days ...

... when he strutted in between the band rows and lines during a parade ...