why are conservatives so concerned with other people's money?

lifegoesonbrah

lifegoesonbrah

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Hazydat620 said:
wow what to say, you say you need to hire these people cause a marine is to stupid to feed them selves, maybe we should take away your allowances and give it to the people you need to feed you? The military doesn't even do a 1/4 of the shit they use to do. You bunch used to be pretty self reliant but it has apparently been contracted out to people more qualified. When do we cut the military's pay?
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Its more efficient and cost effective to hire civilians for these types of jobs, plus it reduces the heavy turnover you have with military personnel.
 
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NoDrama

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Hazydat620 said:
wow what to say, you say you need to hire these people cause a marine is to stupid to feed them selves, maybe we should take away your allowances and give it to the people you need to feed you? The military doesn't even do a 1/4 of the shit they use to do. You bunch used to be pretty self reliant but it has apparently been contracted out to people more qualified. When do we cut the military's pay?
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You are right, It seems the military is just doing jobs that are "Militarized". I suppose one day they will just hire civilians to do all the killing and those Marines can go back to being really bad ass cooks. OOOHH RAHH!
 
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NoDrama

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kpmarine said:
I heard that too. I don't know if it's some mysterious legend or true. I have wingnuts in the family, but I always forget to ask if they get turndown service.
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LMAO, little mints on the pillow each day.

The Air Force does have nice facilities though.
 
kpmarine

kpmarine

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Hazydat620 said:
wow what to say, you say you need to hire these people cause a marine is to stupid to feed them selves, maybe we should take away your allowances and give it to the people you need to feed you? The military doesn't even do a 1/4 of the shit they use to do. You bunch used to be pretty self reliant but it has apparently been contracted out to people more qualified. When do we cut the military's pay?
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It's mostly because paying someone $10 an hour to cook is cheaper than sending someone through military training. They just waste the training money that could be better used elsewhere.
 
lifegoesonbrah

lifegoesonbrah

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NoDrama said:
LMAO, little mints on the pillow each day.

The Air Force does have nice facilities though.
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We did get our chow hall trays picked up from the table though. The Army bases you had to bring your tray up and give it to the dishwashers and there was no CNN it was horrible. :(
 
Hazydat620

Hazydat620

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kpmarine said:
It's mostly because paying someone $10 an hour to cook is cheaper than sending someone through military training. They just waste the training money that could be better used elsewhere.
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take your pick, google "money spent on contracts in Iraq war" it doesn't just cost $10 bucks an hour. I would rather spend the money for training for our military and have them come out of the service with more skills than just killing machines, is there a lot of demand for contract killers in the USA?
 
lifegoesonbrah

lifegoesonbrah

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kpmarine said:
Air Force inspection: "Your room is dirty. I'll call the maid." :p
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The Army was much more dirty and destructive. I maintained fire alarm and suppression systems so we would always get called to the army barracks because they broke something. (discharging fire extinguishers, damaging sprinkler heads, disabling smoke alarms so they could smoke...)
 
lifegoesonbrah

lifegoesonbrah

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Hazydat620 said:
take your pick, it doesn't just cost $10 bucks an hour. I would rather spend the money for training for our military and have them come out of the service with more skills than just killing machines, is there a lot of demand for contract killers in the USA?
https://www.google.com/search?q=money+spent+on+contracts+in+Iraq+war&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls={moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}
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I agree with you, in the Civil Engineering squadron we had a good mix of civilians and military. The civilians were awesome because they are permanent personnel and know the base and systems better than anyone. Turnover is a big issue and civilians alleviate that.
 
kpmarine

kpmarine

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NoDrama said:
Self heating MRE's were not part of the Marine Corps meal system. If you wanted it hot you put it in your Trouser cargo pocket and let your sweat and long physical labor heat that sucker up. Otherwise every MRE was a cold one.
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I generally ate them cold. The heaters had too many other great uses to be wasted heating pseudo-food.
 
kpmarine

kpmarine

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Hazydat620 said:
take your pick, google "money spent on contracts in Iraq war" it doesn't just cost $10 bucks an hour. I would rather spend the money for training for our military and have them come out of the service with more skills than just killing machines, is there a lot of demand for contract killers in the USA?
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The rest of it is just cronyism at it finest. I was referring to civvies stateside.
 
kpmarine

kpmarine

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Hazydat620 said:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/military/news/2012/03/06/11201/veteran-poverty-by-the-numbers/
Its nice what you all think about your brothers and sisters that are home or plan to come home, those same lazy unmotivated minimum wage leaches are also some of your own, think about that, they come from all walks of life.
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Sure, there's shitbags everywhere. Most veterans aren't in those situations because they like being on the dole though. That seems like a much more complex subject.
 
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