Well the recruiter told me because I have lost inches on my waist because of my weight I would need to bulk up my neck. I don't have anything to bulk my neck up at the gym I go to.

I dunno what you look like...

but I can assure you I've seen some serious fat tubs of lard throughtout my entire military career....

FFS make ur recruiter work for you, it's his job to get you in...

Tho honestly... I'mma go ahead and insert my plug to never ever ever ever ever join the army at this point.

You're not a victim of American propaganda in any way at all, are you.

Our "reputation" is mostly our neighbors laughing at us and Americans drooling over our education system. With the budget cuts our army is quickly becoming little more than a bad joke as well. True, according to some sources USA intended to nuke Finland a whopping 22 times in WW3 but those days are over.

Most countries have contingency plans for pretty much ANY scenario, and understandably too. Prior to WW2 (And I'm talking 5-10 years before at the most), both America and Britain had plans to invade the other.

Wait, radioactive glass, from... Nukes... From thousands of years ago? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Please tell me you don't ACTUALLY believe it.

And on to your point about preparing... There's a point where it goes from being cautious and preparing for bad things to happen, to being obsessed with the possibility, no matter how remote, of bad things happening. You can't live your life in fear, because if you do, you aren't really living at all. I could die every time I step outside my door, but that doesn't stop me from going outside.

Anyway, I won't be watching it. This kind of show is pure crap, and there's more than enough like it on TV to last anyone a lifetime.

That sand glass is more likely from am asteroid impact... not a technological nuke device


Naturally... but I wouldn't consider it "Living in fear" to have a bases of supplies... Most of what I plan on collecting will get occasional use with camping trips and crap anyways.

Of course a critical event is unlikely... but it IS possible, and taking moderate, reasonable preparations is not uncalled for.

No one is saying to standby your CB radio with a tinfoil hat on waiting on the announcement.

Well yeah, or any number of other perfectly natural event. I'm just curious as to whether or not he actually believes it.


Well no, there's nothing wrong with having a base of supplies. My family has dry rations and bottled water to likely last us about two weeks. We don't have a massive cellar stocked to the brim with bottled water and canned food costing tens of thousands of dollars though.

Admittedly, it probably would be a good idea to purchase a few gas masks and filters, considering we live quite close to a nuclear plant. I still don't see the need to have a full scale vault under your house.

Oh? I tought there was somehting about high technology too?

And why the hell would USA use 22 nukes on Finland? Overkill, much?

There would be ruins if there was a civilization on earth before us....

unless some aliens doing a flyby 20,000 years ago shot off a photon torpedo for fun while passing through our solar system....

Hey, it's more likely than an earlier civilization on earth that had every scrap of evidence of it's existence vanish from earth while this 1 small patch of land they nuked remained untouched

we have enough nukes to completely destroy the world something like 5-10 times over.....

Overkill? Doesn't even begin to describe it.

I know that, and I realize how ridiculous it is, but like I said, I want to know if HE believes it. Because it sounded like he sort of did.

And so does Russia and China. If another world war breaks out you can kiss your ass goodbye

except all 3 countries know they can't fire without triggering Armageddon...

also why the 3 of us have not had direct engagements in some time. We use proxies to dike with interests of the other countries so there is no direct line pointing back to us....

It really is a bizarre world we live in...

Yeah, I'm by no means a land whale. And the Army is something I want to do for my country, not for my government. Plus it's the only way I can get college.

I'm not even going into the Navy for 'My Country', don't even care about it really. I'm just going in so I can get a jumpstart on life >_>

Please, we all know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw is the reason.

Yeah, why would we want America back in the first place. Too many crazies.

I was the same way..... then I realized that some dip (at the time good ol' W.) had the authority to order me somewhere to shoot someone I didn't agree with.

I have no problem with protecting my countrymen, or anyone in need of defense irregardless of nationality... however it seems to me the military is used more to protect corporate interests than human interests... and so I had to grudgingly leave the service, despite having pretty much my entire life dream laid at my feet ready to pick up (My squad leader got me a warrant officer to sign for me into the helo flight program, and my Commander and 1st sgt both wanted to send me to Ranger school, Sapper school [like rangers but with focus on improvised demo... I was a combat engineer], and PLDC back to back which woulda had me a Sgt in under 4yrs service.)

I signed up to be a career soldier and had almost no sign on bonus (small boost to GI Bill... my GI Bill with boost is less than the GI Bill is now). I WANTED to be in. I WANTED to fight... I can't tell you the difficulty I had in walking away from all that but there it is.

And the Navy IS one of the safer bets on that.... only the Air Force is "safer"

^LMFAO

Right. In a sense MAD has aided the cause of world peace more than UN and it's predecessor put together

The REAL reason for Don't Ask Don't Tell.

..... yah ... in a sense I guess

At the same time it has also put us into a rather precarious situation... I doubt anybody is gonna hit the big red button... but it only takes 1 crazy mofo to do unspeakable damage.

To be honest, I would actually vote for Obama if he declared war on Iran and did something to help the Syrians. Only way I'd vote for him.

Oh you're so funny for being the 20th person to make that unoriginal joke.

O.o

Last thing we need is MORE war ffs...

we've been "at war" for over a decade now... it's ridiculous. Our economy cannot sustain this.