Please do not mistake, I do not put down civilians who chose another path, but some people like to be all blustery about America, but never put their asses on the line for it.
I agree. But I also feel the same way about jury duty! Get involved! You are either a part of the solution or a part of the problem.
Mav, here is the difference between jury duty and military service. 1. Pay. Now as a Sgt on active duty I made about 1100 bucks a month. Peanuts. I can do that in a week in the private sector. The difference is that as long as I am on base, that 1100 goes in my pocket. If I have children I get an allowance. We won't be rich, but we will not starve. Jury duty? Well good luck to ya if you get caught in a long trial. 2. Impact. As a juror, I am one of twelve people whom a trial lawyer (obama) is trying to convince me that this person did not do it. Nothing to do with facts. A great line I heard from a CSI show once is this..." I don't have to prove you're guilty, I just have to convince the jury that you are". That is powerful if you think about it. In today's military, you are equipped to be that "Army of One" and you can be the difference between life and death for a number of people. Your first job in the Army is break things and kill people. What you do when you are not doing that is what your MOS is. Jury duty is a civic duty true enuf, but jurors did not secure our freedoms, and jurors will not maintain them.
One more thing. It is funny that when the shit really really hits the fan, there is no jury. There are only nine justices.
The last time our "freedoms" were truly in jeopardy of being taken from us by another army was WW2, however the government sure has managed to use that B.S. line to steal alot of our freedoms from us themselves over the course of the last 70 years. The only way our courts can remain truly free is when we have civilian juries. If we lose that we completely lose the ability to properly guard ourselves from false imprisonment by the government. In my opinion the jury and the way our legal system is set up has done as much or more then the military to maintain and protect our "freedoms" in the past 70 years. Though neither one has done a good job considering the fact that the government has robbed us blind of our "freedoms" over the last century.
Bullshit. Now you're a liar on top of being a stateside, rear echelon support puke turned shirker. And a moron who has no argument or substance so he makes shit up.
You double checked it after but didn't differentiate when you claimed you don't double check your posts. Sounds like the kind of quibble that turd Range Rover would have made before he "quit" ET after unsuccessfully trying to have me banned. What a loser he was
Judging by your judgment in marrying your half-sister, I would guess that your opinions are worthless at best.
Yeah... I'm sure you did a lot of that in a combat support hospital in Illinois as a medic, cook, clerk typist, mechanic, supply clerk or whatever you were. NOT.