CI-Roller Dude: Words of Wisdom....If you want my advice.....
That is always the way. You are not alone in this department.
1. Admire your AC-130 gunner's dislikes.2. As an army troop, back in the day, the girls would see our short hair and say, "Eeeww, you're a soldier."3. There were a few studs around, but most had to settle for gritty stuff -or paying for it.4. Did have a German girlfriend for awhile -until I p****d her off.5. On the other side of the coin, watched my troops crash and burn in their relationships with some regularity.6. My best advice to a 19 year old LCPL considering marriage was: "Don't."7. Being unmarried myself, had zippy credibility in that counseling area.8. My troops who married girls from back home generally made out better than the ones who met locals.9. Can remember working through the AF to get a SSGT home. We were on a contingency and the word came back that his wife had gone back to her original profession. Had been busted for selling drugs while engaging in prostitution and his children were in Child Protective Custody in Orange County, CA.10. Never talked anybody out of doing anything stupid. My NCO's weren't much better at it. 11. Found that once I was regularly employed, making a decent salary, had to fight women off.12. Prior to that, was pretty sorry at womanizing.13. And, yes, fit the stereotypical mold of the fellow who had one use for a woman.14. Am some "improved" these days, but still manage to irritate my wife and daughter regularly, being such a chauvanist pig.V/R JWest
Yeah, ask me how to clear a jam on a M249...
CI-Roller Dude: Words of Wisdom....If you want my advice.....
That is always the way. You are not alone in this department.
1. Admire your AC-130 gunner's dislikes.2. As an army troop, back in the day, the girls would see our short hair and say, "Eeeww, you're a soldier."3. There were a few studs around, but most had to settle for gritty stuff -or paying for it.4. Did have a German girlfriend for awhile -until I p****d her off.5. On the other side of the coin, watched my troops crash and burn in their relationships with some regularity.6. My best advice to a 19 year old LCPL considering marriage was: "Don't."7. Being unmarried myself, had zippy credibility in that counseling area.8. My troops who married girls from back home generally made out better than the ones who met locals.9.
 Can remember working through the AF to get a SSGT home. We were on a contingency and the word came back that his wife had gone back to her original profession. Had been busted for selling drugs while engaging in prostitution and his children were in Child Protective Custody in Orange County, CA.10. Never talked anybody out of doing anything stupid. My NCO's weren't much better at it. 11. Found that once I was regularly employed, making a decent salary, had to fight women off.12. Prior to that, was pretty sorry at womanizing.13. And, yes, fit the stereotypical mold of the fellow who had one use for a woman.14. Am some "improved" these days, but still manage to irritate my wife and daughter regularly, being such a chauvanist pig.V/R JWest
Yeah, ask me how to clear a jam on a M249...