Next thing he'll call you flyboy...
By the way where is Marinerhodes??
Hehehehe... on topic no one ever kicks yer teeth in when you make a mistake, it happens when you REPEAT the mistake and it gets worse when you make excuses for the mistake... at least that's how I see it being done. Best thing, for those that have ears to hear, is to take it on the chin, learn from it, forget about your pride (as it is a worthless concept in the context of learning), learn from the mistake and drive on. In the military, pissing and moaning and making excuses will only piss off the instructor/NCO/Officer type who is correcting your deficiency.
In a thread about combat experience it is assinine to assume one might know anything about combat who hasn't been in it and if you presume to think you do and someone who has been there and done that tells you you know SFA you should STFU and reconsider your position. If this were a thread about nuclear physics and you figure you have read about the A-bomb so you "know" all about it, would you then proceed to argue with someone who has a PhD in physics when they tell you you are wrong? Hell no... and this ain't no different. When an expert tells you, you are wrong you shut up and listen... two ears, one mouth.
Combat is not something you can read about and "know" anymore than reading about giving birth equates to knowing what it is like, reading about cutting a man's throat to establish and airway is entirely different from actually taking a scalpel and CUTTING the throat of another living person to save their life. You abso:cen:inglutley do not know what these things are like until you actually doing it for real. Some months back young Cadet Seaman copped it on the chin from a mod for trying to argue his experiences playing paintball equated to combat and somehow validated his point of view and rendered him able to argue about it with a real life combat vet. WRONG.
Some of our younger members would be well served to take a step back and think about the fact that these are not just letters on a screen you are arguing with but real life honest to god men who are in uniform and have been in harm's way more than once and to argue something like this with them is the height of stupidity.
Thus endeth the rant.
