How do you deal with Anti-War people....

[PilotGal]

gate_guard,

I never said they are nothing more than wannabe recruits. I don‘t assume what they know and what they don‘t until they talk about what they know.

Here is what I wrote:
"Most of the people here are lurkers who don‘t ask anything but stupid questions like "are they allowed to wear earrings in the army" and so on."

I was referring to the fact that people criticize those who talk more than just asking questions about recruitment process, etc. That is, the general view that if you‘re not in the army yet, or are thinking of applying or in the process of applying, all you can ask is recruitment questions.

D.

 

[PilotGal]

lol u must be used to defending yourself on these forums

Hmmm? LOL. I wasn‘t defending myself. I was just telling you what I said and what I didn‘t. But I guess I‘m defending myself right here too. LOL!

D.

 

[deathwing5]

lol yes. But that‘s alrite. You‘re making things interesting.

I really like this forum, I can talk about army related things. Till i can get into the military.
3 freaking days left till i can do my last process and that‘s it. I‘m confident things will go good.

 

[Spr.Earl]

Young Lady,
The only one‘s who get slagged are those who are to bone idle to search with in this site and keep coming up with the same question‘s.

We are not all as inteligent as you.
Remember we are only worker bee‘s

 

[PilotGal]

OK, I didn‘t get what you meant by that, Spr. Earl, and I think it‘s all for the better.

You guys need *more* sense of humour.

D.

 

[deathwing5]

My history teacher is in the reserves and he has a good sense of humour, Like when this one guy tripped infront of the class i was the only one laughing out loud and everybody else was asking him are you okay? or they had blank looks. When i looked over at my teacher he was smiling. I consider that a sense of humour. He held it in quiet nicely though I can‘t. I ended up making some other people laugh at him, he was red when he got up.

 

[PilotGal]

LOL. I always laugh at myself when I fall or something, or even hurt myself in any way accidentally. I don‘t know why, but it just comes out naturally. Heh. One day my geography teacher had his pant ripped in front of the whole class by the chair or something, and everyone was like silent cos they were scared of being yelled at, etc., cos the teacher was really harsh most of the time, and I was all red from trying to stop laughing, and everyone was like looking at me. LOL. He didn‘t do anything about the fact that I was laughing though. Heh.

 

[deathwing5]

That sounds like my ordeal, but i actually burst out laughing at first then i tried to hide it, but other people turned their heads away and laughed inside.

Me too when i fall i just start laughing, I had a teacher that didnt know his pants were ripped at the crotch area, so he‘s sitting on top of the desk teaching us, and me and my friend are making jokes.

And we are so off topic, lol

 

[ForeverPvt]

It seems that the general concensus is to treat the antiwar folks with kid gloves. Nine times out ten it works too. When in uniform, it‘s always best to be polite and discuss how we are not sadistic killers out to collect ears, but I‘ll never forget the look on that hippie‘s face after getting butt stroked by my FN. Ah, the good old days...

 

[max flinch]

"Most of the people here are lurkers who don‘t ask anything but stupid questions like "are they allowed to wear earrings in the army" and so on."

Maybe all of us who are in the know should find out where they live and go beat the crap out of them, hey, PilotGal?

Having read quite a few of your many posts as of late, I would say that you should show the same patience and tolerance to those who ask what you cosider a ‘stupid’ question with the same patience and tolerance that some of your questions, arguments, and assertions have been treated by others. You debate with nothing more than ‘things you read’ against people who have years of experience in the Canadian Forces – in some instances, people who joined before you were born. It comes across as awfully ‘wet behind the ears’ to argue from ideas and principles found in a book (which is really just the author’s opinion passed to you via the printed word) against the experience of people who have been in a given setting, situation, and circumstance, and can speak to their view with that experience backing it up.

If you ever succeed in joining the Canadian Forces (and I wish you luck, as I just finished a lengthy wait to rejoin, so I sympathize with your impatience at being made to wait), here are some tidbits of wisdom that were given to me when I first joined. They have served me well:

1. “Don’t speak unless you’ve got something to say.”
2. “If you don’t know what you’re talking about, see rule #1.”
3. “The only stupid question is the one that doesn’t get asked.”

 

[max flinch]

Oh, just to get back on the track of how to deal with people who choose to hassle you because of your membership in the Canadian Forces: I agree with the kid gloves statement, because there are those who are hoping for a confrontation, since that would fulfill their view of us as ‘war-mongering jack-booted fascists.‘

My only personal encounter with this happened at the University of Socialistic Left Wing Diatribe - Oops, I mean, Victoria, in the early ‘90s. I was at eating lunch with friends, and a couple of girls who knew I was in the militia were at me about all the evils the military has brought upon the face of the world, blah blah blah. I calmly said, "I‘ve helped to train six people who are currently trying to keep peace in Bosnia right now. What have you done to make the world a better place?" No response was forthcoming.

 

[deathwing5]

LOL oh man, Great job!

 

[Cycophant]

"I‘ve helped to train six people who are currently trying to keep peace in Bosnia right now. What have you done to make the world a better place?"

Absolutely beautiful. Short, to the point, and the fact that they were rendered speachless gives it a power all of its own.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

I‘ll had my kudos for that statement to the young dears. Well done.