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Subject: An apology to Braddock
Old Grunt    1/20/2006 3:09:04 PM
I never thought that it would happen but it has. I guess you really do have influence with the Department of Defense, or at least the Department of the Army. Just a few weeks ago you were lamenting that the oportunity for you to be a part of the Special Forces community was just not available and how you would jump at the chance if it became possible. I guess some of your influential friends here at the Pentagon heard you because just a few days later the Army raised the age limit for enlistment to 40 in order to accomodate your wish! You are now eligible to enlist as an 18X!! Man, you must be beside yourself with joy! When do you plan on going down to the recruiting station? I mean, you have the required GT score, experience and skills right? And with all the mentoring that you've gotten from "Green Berets" passing the screening tests should be a breeze for you! After all, the best way to influence the "Green Beret" community is to get assigned to USASOC headquarters and they only pull their staff from the operational community which, of course, you already knew. From there you can move to USSOCOM headquarters and have direct influence across the services. A man of your ability should be able to get assigned to the Pentagon staff after only three or four years of operational time. I wouldn't be surprised if you have already been down to the station! I mean, after all, you have assured us all time and again that you are a man of integrity and that you don't lie. And I know that you wouldn't be so superficial, selfish, and petty as to put the well being of yourself and your family above the welfare of the Nation who so desperately needs you. I would expect a lesser man to try and give some lame excuse for why he wasn't going to take advantage of the fantastic opportunity that he had been given, but not you!! I am so excited for you that you have finally been given your chance to show the world what you are really made of! Please keep us informed of your progress, I'm sure the other posters on this board will join me in congratulating you on receiving which you have so many times stated you wished you could get!
 
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Old Grunt    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 2:46:49 PM
At least this time the book is listed in the adventure fiction genre. A flash of reality perhaps?
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 2:59:17 PM
Old Grunt and Minions It appears as if I am in good company at the "vanity publisher." Dear author, With the new year now firmly in place, we have more happy news to share with you. Today we are welcoming as a new PublishAmerica author Pulitzer Prize winner William Coughlin. He served as a World War II fighter pilot, taught journalism as a professor, wrote for the Los Angeles Times and United Press International, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 as a newspaper editor. Mr. Coughlin wrote us a very kind letter asking to join your ranks as a PublishAmerica author, and we are happy to welcome him, and his book "Beyond the Seas", on board. We also celebrate the recent appearance of our author Hedda Nussbaum on the Larry King Live show. Hedda has previously been employed and published by Random House, and she joined PublishAmerica's ranks more than a year ago. Ms. Nussbaum, a well-known author who writes about domestic abuse, has enjoyed much media attention lately for her book "Surviving Intimate Terrorism". Congratulations! Also, exciting things continue to be happening for PublishAmerica authors in and around Hollywood. After we announced the upcoming big-screen success of our author Benjamin Frazier a few weeks ago, we can now also inform you that author Lisa Croll Di Dio has seen her book "Sherwood Forest" optioned by a Los Angeles production company, represented by the Beverly Hills-based Michael Eisner law firm. Another PublishAmerica book, "Absolution: The Ted Roth Story" by author Edmund Hulton, has been made into a screenplay by award winning New York screen writer Doug Klozzner and is currently being shopped around in Hollywood. That is all fantastic news, and it comes on the heels of a continued steady barrage of positive news stories about many other PublishAmerica authors. The Georgia News-Daily and the Fayetteville, Georgia, Citizen are writing enthusiastically about an author's second book with PublishAmerica. The Winchester, Virginia, Star calls an author's work "poetry in motion" and prominently pictures him signing copies of his book. The Clovis, California, Independent discloses to its readers that a local body-shop manager is actually a gifted novelist. The Hoboken, New Jersey, Reporter highlights an author whose book portrays the town as it was during World War II. The venerable Arizona Republic reveals that another PublishAmerica author gave Ronald Reagan his tuxedo trousers to wear during a formal dinner in the Philippines. And this is just a small sample from the roughly sixty press clippings that we have seen last week, on top of PublishAmerica and its authors being trumpeted in big-circulation papers such as the Houston Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor. It is no wonder that PublishAmerica book sales have soared to an all-time high over the holiday season. Congratulations to all of you! On behalf of the entire PublishAmerica team, we wish you Happy and Prosperous New Year! PublishAmerica Author Support
 
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GOP    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 3:15:28 PM
>>Personally, I find it rather bemusing how in all those American internet videos from Iraq always have heavy metal music in the background and focus on firepower. There was a documentary shown on the BBC shortly after the Iraq war, showing American mechanised infantry at the start of the war, their unit song was "We Will Rock You", by Queen, with all of them head-banging along to it in the back of their Bradley for the camera. By the end of the documentary several months into the war the music was long gone and the soldiers were very eager to be leaving.<< Well, I know that if I was going off to war for the first time, I would probably be very pumped aswell. You have to remember that these our guys that are not too much older than me, and they are riding in heavily armed and armored APC's, carrying powerful weapons, have big muscles, great training, have leaders that purposefully try to pump them up, are all friends, and are going out to protect their country. This sounds 'cool' to me, and it is 'cool' to them. Of course, the horrors of war eventually catch up with them and they realize it isn't 'cool', but at the moment... in the back of an heavily armed APC, carrying powerful guns, having big muscles, great training, having leaders who pump them up, and going out to protect their country, they think it is 'cool'. I wouldn't be listening to Queens "We will rock you". I would be listening to Mettalicas "Creeping Death" :)
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 3:26:04 PM
"Well, I know that if I was going off to war for the first time, I would probably be very pumped aswell. You have to remember that these our guys that are not too much older than me, and they are riding in heavily armed and armored APC's, carrying powerful weapons, have big muscles, great training, have leaders that purposefully try to pump them up, are all friends, and are going out to protect their country. This sounds 'cool' to me, and it is 'cool' to them." GOP Not if you were in my unit, as you would have had countless repititions on the mental and physical preparatory warfighting phases. This would ensure that you were an example of a unit with competent soldiers with a diverse skillset that has prepared them for combat. Terrance the Great
 
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Old Grunt    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 3:35:05 PM
"Not if you were in my unit,..." And what unit would that be?
 
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GOP    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 3:37:21 PM
>>Not if you were in my unit, as you would have had countless repititions on the mental and physical preparatory warfighting phases. This would ensure that you were an example of a unit with competent soldiers with a diverse skillset that has prepared them for combat. Terrance the Great<< Well, from all of the books I have read dealing with different units going to war in Afghanistan or Iraq, from Marine Force Recon, US Army SF, to US Army tankers, they were all pumped and listening to loud music. Of course, I haven't read anything on MP's going to war (or any other REMF), so maybe in your unit you weren't pumped (who would be if their job was handing out toilet paper)
 
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stbretnco    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 3:38:55 PM
Terrance has no unit, he's no longer in the US Military
 
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BraddockCaesar    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 3:45:26 PM
"Well, from all of the books I have read dealing with different units going to war in Afghanistan or Iraq, from Marine Force Recon, US Army SF, to US Army tankers, they were all pumped and listening to loud music. Of course, I haven't read anything on MP's going to war (or any other REMF), so maybe in your unit you weren't pumped (who would be if their job was handing out toilet paper)" GOP Times are changing young man. "Not if you were in my unit,..." And what unit would that be? Whereever the 18x program sends me. And my rise to SOF greatness will be public. I did'nt work all of my life to covertly steal a victory over my political adversaries. Terrance the Great
 
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Old Grunt    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 4:21:13 PM
"Not if you were in my unit,..." And what unit would that be? Whereever the 18x program sends me. And my rise to SOF greatness will be public. I did'nt work all of my life to covertly steal a victory over my political adversaries. Terrance the Great Sorry, didn't realize you were talking in the abstract in reference to a hypothetical, non-existant unit.
 
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Old Grunt    RE:An apology to Braddock   1/27/2006 4:22:07 PM
By the way, it's been a week now. When are you scheduled to ake the ASVAB, DLAB, and AP tests?
 
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