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What's difference between someone joining the military in 2013 compared to decades before? What's changed since then?
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When I was in, we were rewarded with beer. Anytime we ran eight miles, or did well in the field, we were rewarded with kegs of beer. Good AG inspection? Beer for everyone! Also there was a lot of weed I was on an FO (Forward observer) team and we would smoke out on the OP. (Observation post) Officers and enlisted men passing the joint around. There was pin up **** allowed in the barracks in the two man rooms as long as it was removed during inspections. Now things have completely changed. Alcohol and tobacco are seriously frowned upon. and even Maxim is considered **** contraband., There were fat guys when I was in, now there's zero tolerance on even mild obesity.
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As an onlooker (one who has never served) it appears now to be more of a job. It's a job that can get you killed, but "just a job". At one time it was a great honor to serve in the U.S.A. military. Some days I look at our country now and ask myself if I'd be willing to die for what I'm seeing. I'm certain that soldiers from the past (there are several in my family) did not risk their lives for what we're doing to our country now. We're throwing away freedom and becoming government dependent, and we currently have a President who encourages this more and more. It's not democracy.
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***Snore*** {Right, and George Bush was a great Prez.....right...BS}
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There's a broad gap between democracy and our current President's socialistic mind-set. There have been plenty of Democratic President's before this one who understood the difference, and respected the will of the majority.
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they used to shoot bullets a few feet over your head during the 300 yard crawl but now a days they shoot blanks about 30 feet above your head and throw flash bangs.
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I joined the Air Force many years ago when I was a teenager. During basic training my biggest challenges were making sure my shoes were shined and my uniforms ironed properly. Women were not trained how to use weapons and did not take part in actual warfare.
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Gays are now openly accepted, The Drill instructors are not allowed to hit or use racial slurs against recruits and the exercises now include zoomba and other routines.
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Well, decades before it was primarily a draft system; but, either way, you are cannon fodder in the rich-man's wars....
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The 'draft system' is used during war time/s.
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Decades before: Wars were more easily justified and ovbiously necessary. Fewer questionable wars. Civilan leaders made decision to go to war, the soldiers actually fought for America, by the people for the people. People joined out of Patroitism.
Now: Two questionable wars, decision made by corporate interests and military industrial complex, soldiers actually are fighting to protect corprate interests and dubious practices in the name of the USA. Some join out of Patroitism, others because they are too poor to have any other choice.Heart (1)
In the past wars were fought to be won. They had none of this 'political correctness' crap. If an army lost a thousand men gaining something, at the end of the day they didn't pack up, call it a loss and go home. They stayed, and called whatever it was there's. And that is the way it should be.
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Virtually none of the attitudes in the book — the suspicion and distrust of the officials in the government, the feelings of helplessness and victimization, the realization that most government agencies would lie — coincided with my experiences as a bombardier in World War II. The antiwar and antigovernment feelings in the book belong to the period following World War II: the Korean War, the cold war of the fifties.
The novel, then, rails not against a single war, but against what President Dwight Eisenhower contributed to and, finally, saw as problematic at the same time Heller was handwriting his masterpiece: the military-industrial complex and the wars of choice it demands. And so as Agent Orange wilted the trees and blood soaked into the ground of Vietnam, the printing runs of the paperback edition of Catch-22 had to be more than doubled, according to Heller. Although the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't caused a similar spike in readership, the wrath camouflaged in Heller's black humor should nonetheless still be directed at those wars. Certainly, the Afghanistan war, being the United States' longest and, perhaps, most convoluted war, falls under Heller's bombsite.
One character in the novel, Milo Minderbinder, especially captures the essence of the amoral, opportunistic American war profiteer. Money dictates Milo's morality. He is at the helm of a vast syndicate, "M & M Enterprises," and what's good for the syndicate is good for the country, and everybody has a share, he says repeatedly. Minderbinder aims to corner the world market on any and all foodstuffs: eggs, pitted dates, oranges, chickpeas, and so on. Milo sells his products to the mess halls — at a profit. Here's Milo's justification for war profiteering: "Look, I didn't start this war, Yossarian…. I'm just trying to put it on a businesslike basis. Is anything wrong with that?"
Yossarian thinks there is. But Yossarian's crazy: he's naked and sitting on the limb of a tree as he listens to Milo make his case. The Afghanistan war is plagued by Milo Minderbinders, and is bereft of (in)sane Yossarians. The profits being made in that country are obscene, considering the human suffering happening there. In Kandahar Province, one of the most dangerous in the country, a huge Post Exchange — a type of retail store located on military installations worldwide — is swimming in profit. The Post Exchange sells everything from Operation Enduring Freedom teddy bears to Harley-Davidson motorcycles, according to Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Little America. Echoing Milo's repeated sales pitches that, say, casaba melons are "going for a song in Damascus" or that "Polish sausage is going for peanuts in Cracow," the Harley-Davidson dealership promises the lowest prices and a prompt delivery as soon as the purchaser returns to the States.
Milo, always looking for a way to diversify his income, even contracts with the Nazis, getting a good return on destroyed American planes and supply sheds. There is, of course, no direct real-world comparison for Milo's doing business with the Germans. But Heller never suggests that an equivalence exists: to make his points starker, Heller strips his characters' actions of their expedient rationalizations and justifications, laying bare the moral maneuverings underlying them. Philip Toynbee, in "Here's Greatness — in Satire," praises Heller's satirical technique, "The method of satire is to inflate reality so that all its partially concealed blemishes turn into monstrous and apparent deformations." Viewed satirically, then, Milo's contracting with the Germans invites many real-world comparisons.
The C.I.A., for example, sold Stingers — portable, shoulder-fired launchers equipped with heat-seeking missiles — to Afghan rebels in the 1980s. The Afghans were fighting off a Soviet invasion. (Soviets were attempting to shore up the communist Afghan government. Americans were fighting the Cold War against the Soviet Union and saw an opportunity to give the Soviets "their Vietnam" in Afghanistan.) Although the United States and the Afghan rebels momentarily had a common enemy in the Soviet Union, each group would eventually turn on the other, and many of the Stingers "had gone to commanders associated with anti-American radical Islamist leaders," according to Steve Coll's Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars. The plan was a "success": after years of hemorrhaging money and taking casualties, the Soviets withdrew, defeated. But then civil war broke out in Afghanistan.
Because the lethal, accurate, and high-tech Stingers could be turned on commercial airliners and warplanes alike, the weapons had to be bought back. The money to repurchase the Stingers, though, would go directly to those who had them: "the warlords who were destroying Afghanistan's cities and towns" in the civil war, according to Coll. Many of the cash-receiving warlords, such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Jalaluddin Haqqani, were anti-American, and these same warlords — minus the ones who decided to re-brand themselves and become a part of President Karzai's government — are now either members of the Taliban insurgency or an associated militant group. Meanwhile, Milo Minderbinder is making it hand over fist selling, buying back, and then reselling the goods. Everyone has a share, and what's good for the syndicate is good for the country, he assures his superiors.
But the self-defeating logic of the Afghanistan war goes beyond the foolish and short-sighted exchange of weapons. Another major theme in Catch-22 is bureaucratic incompetency. That's also a theme in the Afghanistan war. In Afghanistan, as in Catch-22, people of power let internal disputes hinder the larger mission. The State Department battles behind the scenes with the Defense Department. President Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, had deep rivalries with Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, and Doug Lute, of the National Security Council. Lute and Eikenberry are old friends and had conspired against Holbrooke. Rajiv Chandrasekaran, in Little America, reports:
Lute spent much of his time organizing meetings and compiling data that showed how the war was being lost. He believed his work was of vital importance, and he thought that Holbrooke needed to follow his lead. He bristled at the attention journalists lavished upon Holbrooke…. Before long, the two men's staffs were in open warfare with each other. Lute's team would shcedule key meetings when Holbrooke was out of town.
Compare that with the following excerpt from Catch-22:
"Yes, I know I understand. Our first job is to capture Dreedle away from the enemy. Right?"
General Peckem laughed benignly, "No, Scheisskopf. Dreedle's on our side, and Dreedle is the enemy. General Dreedle commands four bomb groups that we simply must capture in order to continue our offensive. Conquering General Dreedle will give us the aircraft and vital bases we need to carry our operations into other areas. And that battle, by the way, is just about won."
The leaders of the war for Afghanistan and the leaders of the war unfolding around Heller's fictional island of Pianosa have fratricidal tendencies. The top leaders of both wars are stuck in an unproductive cycle of one-upmanship. Chandrasekaran reports that, when it came to Afghanistan, "The war cabinet was too often at war with itself," adding that Holbrooke, Lute, and Eikenberry could have accomplished much more "if they hadn't been consumed with one-upping one another." The warring sides of the war cabinet wanted to win their way, and the internal fights over the way that the Afghanistan war should be executed ultimately damned the entire military effort to failure, Chandrasekaran concludes.
Colonel Cathcart, as with other colonels, generals, and officers in Catch-22, lets the desire of personal glory cloud his execution of the larger war. Colonel Cathcart no longer cares if the bombs his bombardiers drop hit their targets. He'd rather have the bombs fall in a tight bomb pattern, which makes for a better aerial photo and increases the likelihood of having his picture in The Saturday Evening Post. Colonel Cathcart never thinks of the lives of the men risking everything to fly these missions. Nor does he think of the enemy targets that stand intact after the mission.
In Afghanistan, the military's top brass had been obsessed with a similarly misguided pattern: the tight concentration of President Obama's "surge" troops. The majority of the troops went to sparsely populated, strategically unimportant regions in Helmand Province. The failure to deploy more of troops to more crucial areas in Afghanistan — to Kandahar, the birthplace and a stronghold of the insurgency, and to eastern Afghanistan, where the Taliban and other insurgent groups cross the Pakistan border to attack NATO and Afghan forces — is a major focus of Chandrasekaran's reporting.
Once deployed, following the orders of their superiors, the Marines dug in. Marine commanders obstinately refused to move their forces from the villages and hamlets they patrolled. Marine generals wanted to make Helmand a "showcase." Chandrasekaran saw that the Marines might win Helmand, but in the fight for it, they'd lose Afghanistan. He voiced this concern to a general, and the general had this to say: "That would be just fine for the Corps."
But the war effort was damned long before the formation of the Obama administration. The ruling class of our nominal ally in the region, Pakistan, is so obsessed with enriching and glorifying itself that the entire country's coming undone. To keep pressure on India, its archenemy, Pakistan not only allows but encourages Islamic extremists to operate within its borders. (American officials should understand this: it's not much different from what they did in Afghanistan during the proxy war there against the Soviet Union.) These extremist groups not only provide safe havens to the Afghan insurgency; they also provide fighters and suicide bombers. Because the country believes it needs them to counter India's superior military, Pakistan is unwilling (and possibly unable) to eradicate the Islamic radicals.
The United States can't cross the border to take out the insurgents for fear that Pakistan will retaliate by increasing its support to insurgents or by closing down U.S. supply routes that run from its port city of Karachi to landlocked Afghanistan, or both. So: on the one hand, if the United States doesn't act to disrupt the insurgency's network of havens that it uses to recuperate, regroup, and resupply, then it loses; on the other, if the United States does go into Pakistan to see the war it began to its necessary end, then it loses its most important "ally" in the region, and along with it, the ability to resupply its troops. The United States loses.
The Afghanistan war, then, is so convoluted that it even outdoes Heller's seemingly exhaustive satirical wit. Luke Mogelson, a writer at The New York Times Magazine, in his most recent piece, proved that he has the eye and the talent to capture the absurd, Heller-ian side of war. Briefly in the piece, Mogulson addresses the recent rise of "insider attacks," or attacks by Afghan National Army soldiers — our allies — on NATO forces:
The Americans claim that many of the killings result from cultural differences; the Taliban claims to have infiltrated the security forces; the Afghan government claims "foreign spy agencies" are to blame. Whatever their provenance, the attacks have eroded trust to such a degree that NATO has begun designating some personnel as "guardian angels." It is the guardian angel's job to protect the NATO soldier from the Afghan soldier whom it is the NATO soldier's job to train.
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We see Chris and Art start to go at it a bit about what kind of food they should serve. I'm never for dumbing down one's food, but Art's point about making something that will appeal to a large group of people isn't a bad one. Ultimately, this is Top Chef Masters, and if we've learned anything it's that at the end of the day you're cooking for the judges (they are the ones making the decisions after all) and people's palates are more sophisticated than one might think. Good food is good food.
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I would like to know who considers Pork and Beans Mexican food, I am of Mexican heritage and its a disgrace to say that you or anyone of your chefs consider that Mexican food, by that definition the French food should consider the french fry a french cuisine. I am really disappointed that you as food critics or judges consider that Mexican food I know I have never seen it in any of my grandmother's recipes or any Mexican cook book.


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Definition of 'Weighted Average Market Capitalization'
A stock market index weighted by the market capitalization of each stock in the index. In such a weighting scheme, larger companies account for a greater portion of the index. Most indexes are constructed in this manner, with the best example being the S&P 500.
Investopedia explains 'Weighted Average Market Capitalization'
For example, if a company's market capitalization is $1 million and the market capitalization of all stocks in the index is $100 million, then the company would be worth 1% of the index. The alternative to weighting by market cap is a price-weighted index such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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- adj. Resembling, flowing in, or forming torrents: torrential mountain streams; a torrential downpour.
- adj. Resulting from the action of fast-flowing streams: torrential erosion.
- adj. Flowing or surging abundantly; wild: torrential applause.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Coming or characterized by torrents; flowing heavily or in large quantities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent .
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or resembling a torrent; of the nature of a torrent: as, torrential rains.
- Produced by the agency of rapid streams, mountain torrents, and the like.
- Figuratively, fluent and copious; voluble; overwhelming.
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- adj. pouring in abundance
- adj. resembling a torrent in force and abundance
- adj. relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent
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Definition: This entry is the total exported electricity in kilowatt-hours.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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Iceland Exports Energy as Data
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Group steps up pressure to speed US okay of gas, coal exports
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Iran Wants OPEC to Make Room for a Boost to Its Oil Exports
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