Subj : Re: OT Military
To   : All
From : Father Cajone
Date : Sat Jan 11 2003 06:22 am

Serving our country in defense of our nation is always an honorable option.  
Your degree upon graduation will also influence what your options are upon 
entering into military service.  After serving honorably for at least 20 years 
you will recive a decent retirement pay and still be young enough to finish 
another career based on what you do after retiring from the military. My family 
has many members both past and present that have served proudly and still 
coutinue to do so to this day.  I am a member of the American Legion and joined 
just a couple years back after the stupid Vietnam fiasco we were involved in a 
bit back.
I have a niece that retired from the AF as a Colonel and has problems finding a 
job as one of the highest trained registered nurses in that service.  Seems 
local hospital providers with RN's in place seem a bit intimidated.  One of my 
nephews was about 15 minutes away from an appointment to discuss part of a 
budget when a plane impacted that part of the Pentagon on 9/11. Our public TV 
media continues to feed us all the "war beating drums" messages as well as the
local newspapers in major population centers.  Now we are on the verge of a 
NUCLEAR (not nucular) faceoff with
North Korea of all places...and supposedly caused by Bush cutting off oil 
supplies causing North Korea to fire up their nuke plant for electricity and 
produce plutonium 
byproducts.

When I joined the Army I raised my hand and swore my  loyalty to the  
Constitution of these United States of America.  The "Pledge of Allegiance" to 
the flag was originally introduced as the result of a "Cracker Jack" contest to 
provide a rebuttal to people in Nazi Germany pledging allegiance to their 
"Leader".  During the early 1950's McArthey era the tiny phrase of 'under God' 
was introduced to the Flag Pledge to differentiate us from the Godless Soviet 
Empire.  The reason I have spelled this out is because when I served in the 
military was not to swear an oath to serve our leader or a piece of cloth that 
we honor but the entire base on which our country was founded.

>From a message by sloppy about OT Military:
> With an anticipated graduation from college in December, I've been pondering 
what to do from this point on in life.  I recently hit upon the idea of the 
military, was wondering if people could offer input, horror stories, advice, 
warnings, etc.  Anything would be appreciated.



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