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DomAviator -> RE: I did not know this (6/5/2008 2:52:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: JulieorSarah
i'm always amazed that so many individuals, in so many countries feel that military service or being related to someone who has served their country, automatically makes them a better politician. They are not complementary. There have been appalling politicians who have served in the military.
...i'd be more impressed if, instead of being impressed by military service people were impressed by those who are doctors, nurses or teachers. These are the people who truly create a society. Without them there is nothing to defend.
OK first of all, teachers are fucking babysitters with a college degree... I was married to a teacher - color this worksheet does not formulate the basis of civilization. While teachers like to pat their own backs it is largely psychobabble bullshit, and a teaching degree is a fucking joke... Four years of "how to write a lesson plan" LOL been there, saw it, helped her cheat her way through it... "Pedagological Principles" my ass... Its psychobabble. Gee lets count jellybeans and call them "manipulatives".... Ooooh lets throw around letters so we sound smart - IAP, EAP, SNC, ILA, etc.. Several of the dumbest people I know are teachers - inluding a woman who thinks the US Constitution is "a boat that leads water parades" and who thinks Iraq is on the other side of Galveston cause thats the gulf!!!
Nurses fill a valuable function but its for the most part a two year degree... Kind of like air conditioning and refrigeration mechanic or "collision repair technology"...
Doctors, ok Ill concede they are a profession... However if I were to pick those who truly build a civilization I would say it is the lawyers, the businessmen, and the engineers... After all, those are the ones who develop the rules and order, run the economic engine, and create the infrastructure...
Nonetheless, I entered the military with an engineering degree that I earned in 3 years from th #4 engineering school in the USA...While not REQUIRED just about every military pilot is an engineering, math, or science grad. (You need a bacherlors degree in anything - but the selection boards prefer those three disciplines as they are more likely to be able to handle the academics) President Carter was degreed as a nuclear engineer, and the Naval Academy is one of the finest nuclear engineering schools in the world. The military isnt a collection of imbecilles morons and cretans who wander in for lack of a job... It is a highly technical, highly skilled force of people that accepts only the best and brightest into the officer corps and that provides the best job training in the world to its enlisted people.
Oh and FYI it is a hell of a lot harder to become a military pilot, special warfare operator, reactor technician, diver, etc than it is to become a doctor, nurse or LMFAO teacher!
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