And what if Trump, or whom ever the Republicans nominee, wins.
Is there a “War Games” planned to combat the Looney Left from their own insurrection?. Originally Posted by Jackie S
It's not an insurrection if it's what the people voted for. Sir.
General Milley said that he is more concerned about white supremacy than winning wars and obviously getting Americans out of Afghanistan. Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn
Because we have our own fucking problems.I was there in the 80s and 90s. I didn't see any white supremacy but I did see us kick some Iraqi ass pretty easily.
White supremacy is a valid issue in our military. Sir.
I'm surprised there was not a theory put forth on your part. Maybe you're working on it.
I think it's beneath you to sound so dismissive. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
I was there in the 80s and 90s. I didn't see any white supremacy but I did see us kick some Iraqi ass pretty easily.
FYI, one of my recruit company commanders was black, one of my LCPOs was black, my CPO was Filipino, my division officer was black...ummm, I'm not sure what you're talking about and neither do you. Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn
Pointed question:Lets say it was the mid 90s just keep things under wraps. I did go into the navy shortly after some rather public race riots or whatever the press called them. All I know that when I left boot camp for home, we were advised strongly to not wear our uniforms because of the libs.
When did you stop serving? Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
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I will say this about my time in the navy. I came from a farm in the Midwest. There were only two black kids in the school system and they were brothers. We had more Vietnamese children than black children. I went to boot camp in San Diego. The first day we got to find our own rack (bunk) and people segregated themselves by race mostly with a few individuals (like myself) scattered through the cracks. The company commanders (one black and one white) came into the barracks and said "Hell NO!". Told everyone to gather their shit and they would assign bunks. Mixed everyone up real good but you know what, people still tended to gather in the corners with their own. Not necessarily race. We had the city guys over there, we had the tattoo'd former gang members over there, and the Texans over there by the door. Over two months we learned some things about each other. One CC got worn out and had to be hospitalized. The other decided to break us. Started us on a 3/4 mile run which is what we had worked up to at that point. He didn't let us stop until we got to 3 1/2 miles. It ended with me and another guy in a dead sprint to the finish line. He won but I was on his heels. He was black, from the city, and a track star. I was a farm boy who ran everywhere through plowed fields. Before we got our asses chewed out, the other guy wanted to shake my hand for keeping up.
We later had some dumbass whom everyone hated claimed that someone blew their nose on his pillow. He claimed that the hairs were short and curly, so they must belong to either a black man or a Filipino. I don't remember anyone going along with him. Then came the acid. Yep, someone smuggled in some of that stuff. Of the two or three dozen who got high, the rest of us had to keep them out of trouble and out of sight of the CCs.
We were not best friends. We were not going to take each other's parents to dinner and we were not going to date each other's sister but we didn't hate each other.
I will say on the ship that both the Filipino and black guys probably had to put up with more and stay cool about it. Not because of hate but because a lot of us didn't think about how what we said or did would be viewed. I remember one guy (a black guy) complained that only black guys had to clean things up all the time. Someone (also black) explained that most of the lower ranks were black and senior enlisted did not sweep up. And that the sweeping was done by all races in proportion to their race. We had similar problems when I was assigned to New London with women. Why did they have to do all the cleaning...turns out that they didn't do all the cleaning and of all the women in the division, only one was above an E-6. She didn't clean either.
A lot of problems seem to come from a myopic point of view from people looking to be offended. It sounds like a cop out by I had a only few friends and they were both black, white, and Hispanic...and even gay. Yes, we had gay men in the navy in those days. We knew but we said nothing unless they got caught or were assholes. There was a lot that went on that never made the light of day. We kept it in the ranks.
That one guy I knew from Mississippi. We were talking one day in New London and it came up that I was dating this woman named Justine. My friend who had recently gotten married to a local woman wanted to know her last name. I told him and he started laughing and wiping his face like he couldn't believe it. He finally said that Justine was the niece of his wife. He suggested that I call him uncle. Another funny thing is that we both had the same first name and it is not a common first name. I left NLON but ran into him again in Norfolk. I ran into him on the pier. His ship (the USS Wisconsin) was tied up next to my ship. He took me on a tour of the old battleship. One of my three best friends from the navy. Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn