First off to rant is an expression of ones view of any given situation of circumstance. Second to realize the big picture will give you an insight on what to expect when these boots are on your feet. I know why I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was to support and protect my soldiers, then mission success, with all of this accomplished none have any room to give a critical or biased opinion. Its like a 2nd Lt saying based on my experience, WTF. The military has been the highlight of my life, I have been in 3 different combat zones. No matter what I feel has been done to wrong me I would go back in a second. The greatest memories are of my soldiers and the hardships we shared, the missions that we conducted. I did not succeed alone it was US, the team!! Before I'll listen to some snot nosed little poophead with no life experience rant***? You fill in the blanks! There is a lesson here, like the IRR soldier who got totally messed with when activated, figure that one out. The moral of the story is DO THE RIGHT THING!! Thjere is always a battle ahead of us and I'll give all I have down to my last breath for my soldiers!!

Thats good to hear that there are higher ups in military that help out young people that have made poor life choices by joining the military. To get them though there enlistment without having to take to much medication when they get out becasue not only were they taking flack from the enemy but from there own sgts. Way to be the one to eliminate the excessive stress imposed by melovolant sgts and officers so these young enlistees can count on support from thoes on there own side. You can call me a poop head all you want but I walked in your boots and went through the training, I dont need to be a 20 year combat veteran to know the falisies of the army and the melevolance of a significant number of thoes "in charge", I saw the hand writing on the wall and took advantage of my unique situation to pull the ejection seat on a poor choise.

It was not the running or the ruck marchs that bothered me it was the piss poor attitudes of the sgts and officers and the dog and pony show that higher ups put enlisted through. Its hazing plain and simple.

Mutha was a combat veteran and he gets slammed with disrespect, and he did not lack the experence to be afforded the right to talk. Its that some in the military dident like what he had to say. So even if I were a 20 yr combat veteran I would be met with the same bag of crap because its not my lack of military experence its the fact that you disagree with what I say so therefor im a poophead.

The miliary is the last save haven for thoes with a f you attitude my way is right and I will stick you with a knife if you disagree and live in a way that is contrary to what I say type of attitude. Its no wonder alot cant find jobs when they get out, because the military is it for that line of thinking.

Anyway, having rental property and good credit is alot of work to maintain and you cant be out running in the desert for 12 and 18 month deployments if you want to maintain a high level in society (having very good credit and investment property is afforded to thoes in the upper eschelon of society and its alot of work to stay there until you can start to develop labor free cash flow which is the ultimate goal of investing.

If this truely were a war of defense we would be drafting, but it is a war of convience in an attempt to keep the oil flow from stopping. Terrorists can come from anywhere and the only way to stop international terrorism is through clandestine operations not full scale wars. This almost exactly the same as vietnam only with less casulites (so far anyways), vietanm lasted around 10 years. For what ever reason we are not willing to go to total war and the private on the ground pays for the lack of bombiing and total destruction of the nation.

It would be like if bush became the dictator of the USA and started attack country X (a country that actually had the means to defend itself). Do you think country X would hold back bombing us becasue its not the americans that did this its there evil ruller, BS the people of that nation have to take responsibility for what the leadership does, sitting in a mud hut and saying oh woe is me does not cut it. F that you deserve to get bombed just as much for not taking action against the leadership, and it should not be the soldiers of the defending nation to sacrifice time with family and jobs ( in the case of national guard) to go in and surgicly remove terrorists to make sure your mud hut does not get bombed.

Seek help......Really.

Yea I should get on meds because of all the crazy talk I am spouting, thats why this guy is having problems with his credit and rental properties. Thats why veterans have a hard time finding civilian jobs. So is reality crazyness, it seems to me that alot of military members are the ones not living in reality. They live in a world of being told what to do instead of thinking for themselves and wonder why there hardliner attitudes dont cut in the in the real world.

Its mainly the AF tech people that I see being able to make it in the civilian world, you dont see to many combat arms army sgts in professional well paying jobs.

Hey, well, at least I can understand that comment!

Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.

lumpy: It is okay to rant but now I have a more complete picture which does not agree with your original post.

rppearso: Fool.

Im so foolish, thats why my credit score is above 700 and I stay on top of my property payments.

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rppearso: Thanks, you have proven my point once again.

I think the point proving turned on you. By you saying that I proved your point because I am working towards financial independance and a greater quality of life you are making yourself look like an idiot.

You must, some day, learn the English language beyond your sixth grade (benefit of the doubt here) level. To understand the written word is important to effective communication. It amazes me that you can so blissfully ignore what people mean and use your convoluted methods of interpretation. A 700 is not that great by the way, it is the minimum amount allowable for a loan. Never try to impress an accountant with things you do not understand.