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SGT Benjamin Lindsey
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Funny, if being in the military isn't a "real job" then why are there some many lying about having served. You don't see anyone lying about being a banker or a teacher.
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SSG Robert Webster
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Actually SGT Benjamin Lindsey, we see people all the time lying about being a teacher. Think about it.
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SGT Infantryman (Airborne)
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SGT Benjamin Lindsey, It's because they envy us being in the military. LOL
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thanks for sharing this episode from history in the year I enlisted in the US Army as a 12B combat engineer SGT (Join to see). That John Glenn replied to Howard Metzenbaum who claimed his military and astronaut experience was not a read job.
"Howard, I can’t believe you said I have never held a job.
“I served twenty-three years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on twelve different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn’t my checkbook; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank.
“I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day, to a Veterans Hospital and look those men, with their mangled bodies, in the eye and tell them they didn’t hold a job. You go with me to any gold-star mother and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job."
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SGT Infantryman (Airborne)
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LTC Stephen F., I'm happy you enjoyed it and thank you.
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