Quote Originally Posted by brokenscout View Post
Why is everyone such a badass when their on the computer?
Quote Originally Posted by alxone View Post
because they are silly enough to think that you will never meet in person
+1 the biggest "badass" I ever met didn't weight more than 100 pounds with boots on yet was the one to tell everyone else "how it was"

Quote Originally Posted by airborneranger View Post
The ones that drive me nuts are the Fobbits who post on here about all of the things they saw while deployed. It was so horrible for them, eating in a DFAC everyday and watching cable TV. They should know that many of us actually know what their MOS is and what it means. Just because you deployed doesn't mean that you saw shit.
I was a Fobbit for a couple years. Glad you could call home or access e-mail when you got back to the FOB. Thankfully I was able to pull whatever little weight a scum bag civilian could pull to correct the situation to restore "COMS" and not let your military leadership take control. Glad I could yell or scream at DISA for you to restore COMS while you were outside the fence to restore your "X"NET so you could protect my chow hall or, perhaps, call in (gods forbid) a medevac or more firepower.
Personally I really didn't see shit. Mostly heard. Hard to see rockets coming at you in the dark. Never saw combat, hope never to see combat. But I do know the sound of a rocket flying over my head or a mortar hitting close. And bullets. Those are always fun to hear hit near your head.

Sorry if I sound upset but so tired of people thinking us civilians sat on our backsides and jerked off all day. I was one of the few people fighting your Captain, Major and up to Col to keep COM lines open, functioning so people like you could have phone lines and Internet service when you came back to the FOB to call home/email.