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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 05:59 PM Original message |
Army reaches low, fills ranks: 12% of recruits in Oct. had lowest scores |
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Benhurst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. The World's Only Superpower |
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central scrutinizer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. "will the exam be curved?" |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 03:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
47. You can get four out of five answers WRONG and STILL get in? |
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CStrick20 (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 03:45 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. I am not 100% sure |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 07:26 PM Response to Reply #49 |
60. I'll re-phrase the question, your honor |
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afdip (660 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. rummy's rationale is that if we send them to iraq immediately |
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joemurphy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. Oh good, a professional army manned by morons. |
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cliss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. How true. I read once that RumsFailed had called |
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CRK7376 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 09:53 PM Response to Reply #4 |
30. Careful now!!! |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 05:50 PM Response to Reply #30 |
57. My experience is quite different |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. A main reason I volunteered for the boats |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:58 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Ding ding ding! We have a winner. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 05:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
54. battle stations - smattle stations: Rummy needs warm bodies |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. How would like to be the Drill Instructor for those guys? |
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CStrick20 (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 01:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. Id rather be a drill instructor for those guys |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 02:16 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. These people are too dumb to comprehend those orders though |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 02:34 PM Response to Reply #43 |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
7. Oh - so maybe some freepers actually do enlist |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
9. Beggars can't be choosers |
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DemInDistress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
10. kind of reminds me of Dimson |
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elfin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. and where is the "no soldier left behind" bill |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
12. "We have clear experience from the 1970s..." |
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punpirate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
13. It's been going on a long, long time... |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. I Hear the Bottom of the Barrel Being Scraped, and I Feel a Draft |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
15. It doesn't take any smarts to pull a trigger |
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VegasWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. To achieve a 16 out of a possible 99 all one has to do is sign the |
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VegasWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 09:23 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. Self Delete. |
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Diane R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
18. So sad. Those poor kids are just cannon fodder. n/t |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 01:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
42. yep, alot of poor uneducated kids join the army since other |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
19. great! This means my freeper nephew qualifies!!! |
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4dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. And they still outscored AWOLbush!! |
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ignatius 2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. How freakin' pathetic and what an outrage..the army is recruting the |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
22. "Congratulations son. You're stupid enough to |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
23. Ah yes, the 'low-lying Lynndie England fruit" |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
24. Does being able to tie your own shoes give you an edge? |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
25. Wow |
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joemurphy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 09:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. If they're anything like the tests I took, yeah, they're multiple |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 09:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Yep. You could simply randomly mark the multiple choice |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 05:31 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Ouch! |
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CStrick20 (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 01:10 PM Response to Reply #25 |
40. I took it |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-09-05 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
27. dumb soldiers in this technological world is scary!!! |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
32. Well, I guess I finally understand now... |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
33. Just like their new boss. |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
34. The Army might want my barely literate cousin now... |
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catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
35. Beavis and Butthead in the army |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
36. So this guy's a psychic, then. |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
37. They also take juvenile delinquents. |
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twaddler01 (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 05:47 PM Response to Reply #37 |
56. can't we send them all to the front lines? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
39. The only way to get those numbers up is via encouragement. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
41. It's actually MUCH worse than most of us think. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 02:39 PM Response to Reply #41 |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 03:04 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. I will not agree with your broad statement... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 03:41 PM Response to Reply #46 |
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belab13 (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
50. Very sad that we are having this discussion |
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CStrick20 (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 04:00 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. As Bad as it sounds.... |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
53. General Science? So, Intelligent Design Is Not The Right Answer? |
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twaddler01 (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
55. they are grasping at straws |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
59. What the hell does anyone expect? |
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ElectroPrincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-10-05 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
61. Full Medal Jacket it is ... Private Pile, show me your stuff?!? |
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