JohnGooner wrote:VCC wrote:JohnGooner wrote:Toy soldier, aye? Kronickaos is a Yank, I haven't the slightest bit of idea what they feel about the term, but as. Brit officer, how about you lot tell me why you used this term?
And as far as 'anybody can pull a trigger', certainly, can you pull a trigger while being faced with one yourself? When my mates were bombed when we were shaking hands with children (yeah, takes a coward to hide behind kids, but these are the kind of cowards we face in Afghan) and we had to do everything possible to get the injured and the dead out of there, was it an 'everybody can pull a trigger' situation? How about when a few of these terrorists were hanging a 6 year old boy?
I'm not even going to put myself into this, but I buried enough mates and family members to keep this country free for them to be called 'toy soldiers'.
good for you there is a war on the streets of most cities,people dont get to go home from it,gans street thugs maffia all after a drug trade mostly,i get pissed off when governments will deploy troups to sort some other countries problems,yet over look what some people have to put up with in thier back yard.but then the arms trade is worth alot of money to these governments aye,like i said good for you but you inlisted to do a job and you should,but when you get to go home think of the poor bastard in YOUR country that dont get to go home from their shit meighborhood that plays russian roulette getting the kids to school.there aint nothing like getting shot at in your OWN HOME,you can join in for safty lasts awhile but when you take the colours off it gets real interesting.
I don't know where you're from, but as dangerous as some places are in Britain (in certain cities at least, and our London is definitely one of them), it's still nothing like what you're describing (which sounds a bit like a gangsta movie). We're not in Afghan out of the niceness of our hearts, we're there to stop a regime that was founding the bombing of our country. If you have any problem with killings, certainly bombing a bus and an underground train full of defenceless people shpuld be on top your list.
When I get to go home,do you mean every 7 days from guarding duty in the palace, every two months from one of our overseas territories/Europe or after 6 months in Afghan? Obviously only asking because you seem hell bent on making it sound like I'm working 9-5 in a new and clean office and then I of course 'go home all safe and sound while the poor guys on the streets die'.
Are you suggesting losing in your life in a war is less than getting shot at your home? By all means, prove you're not a keyboard warrior and come meet a few wifes and parents who lost their husbands/children.
mate you have no idea,i didnt say you worked 9-5 in an office but i did say you inlisted to do a job,i aint no rambo but i know what i have seen,and most cities in the western world have exactly what i have described at varrying degres,where i live is not as bad as a majority of places,people here lose loved ones too i have burried mates too,key board warrior no survivor yes PTSD comes from the streets to
