This is the TUG LOUNGE - Tuggers are welcome to discuss anything they like here.
Except politics
This is the TUG LOUNGE - Tuggers are welcome to discuss anything they like here.
Except politics
This is the TUG LOUNGE - Tuggers are welcome to discuss anything they like here.
ok, thank you...I don't know how I ended up in such an off-topic area, but thanks for the link. I thought I walked into somebody's living room for a minute there...
My real issue is with comment from Tompalm...
Seriously? Don't join the Army or Marines because they might be deployed? Sheesh...got choice words for you but can't say them here...but from this Marine, you have earned my disgust ........
Tell him to stay in college and then he can be on officer when he graduates not just some schlepper.
Take e.bram's comments for what they are worth. His mindset is well known hereabouts.
I applaud Post-it's son's decision. If he's mature enough to know that he needs to go in a different direction, best to offer him support.
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So if Post-it's son feels the pull, support him and wish him 'Godspeed'!
Jim
Since when is encouraging someone to stay in school a bad thing?
Since when is encouraging someone to stay in school a bad thing?
College isn't for *everyone*. It's pretty simple. Try to keep up.
Since when is encouraging someone to stay in school a bad thing?
Since when is encouraging someone to stay in school a bad thing?
ok, thank you...I don't know how I ended up in such an off-topic area, but thanks for the link. I thought I walked into somebody's living room for a minute there...
So mad I can barely see straight...
Schlepper? Well, I guess y'all took care of that comment...and I understand where he was coming from. But truthfully, some kids need a few years under a helmet to fully appreciate what honest effort can provide.
My USMC Corporal son is a fine case study. Bombed out of college his Junior year rather spectacularly. Enlisted because he really needed to. Deployed twice, married now, baby, and starting at the local college on the GI Bill. Entirely different focus now that he is 5 years older and much wiser. Oh, and he barely tolerates the now VERY young college party crowd...pretty amazing if you knew him then. Actually, to see him turn to jello with his new daughter rather tickles me.
My real issue is with comment from Tompalm...
Seriously? Don't join the Army or Marines because they might be deployed? Sheesh...got choice words for you but can't say them here...but from this Marine, you have earned my disgust (which isn't easy to do) and pretty much epitomize everything I ever disliked about the Navy. which was limited to certain rare individuals.
BTW, the warrior does not enlist for the job...I'll leave it to you to figure out what motivates a warrior...you might need to look it up...and it's not combat.
Maybe he'll come back to college later and do much better, maybe he'll become career military, maybe he'll use skills learned in the military and never go back to school, or heck, maybe he'll move to the hills of Vermont and raise goats. Or maybe he'll do all of those things at different times! He has to find what's right for HIM.
Oh this is priceless pjrose. I think goat raising would be far more productive then his first 2 semesters. My husband and I have said he's a bit eccentric, this might just suit him. Too good, thanks!:hysterical: