7 worthless things the Army taught me and 3 things I learned that saved me

After ten years of service in the US Army, numerous deployments and two war zones this is a short list of all the worthless things I learned:

• How to conduct an ambush, raid, attack, company defense, and reconnaissance. This is cool stuff to know if your life is like a Rambo movie, but in real society, it does not even make for an interesting conversation.


• How to foot march 12 miles with a 45 pound pack under 3 hours. This is totally worthless.


• How to navigate through the woods, day or night, with a compass and map. This skill would come in handy if I lived in the woods and I was being chased by some crazed maniac bent on cutting my head off.


• How to handle prisoners. You make them squat on the floor, and place their hands on their heads, and make sure you keep them quiet and separated. If they begin talking, gag them. Don’t leave one soldier alone with them for a long period of time because the prisoners will probably end up dead or abused.


• Once you have been awake for more than 3 days straight you become so exhausted that even the fear of death fades.


• Killing a man for the first time really does make you want to vomit, but the more you do it the less it bothers you.


• When death is close your hands get clammy and you get very anxious

The worthwhile things I learned which saved me:

• Life is a gift granted in order for us to come closer to the eternal consciousness that is Gods thought.


• Politicians, Generals and News Reporters have dangerous egos that if we do not check, will destroy us all.


• The purpose of life is to LOVE, love ourselves, love the Earth, and love every fiber of this universe.

Stop the war with Iran

Saddly we in the United States are unaware that we are already at war with Iran. Not just a war of words but we are conducting black ops operations across the border with Iran and actively supporting insurgent groups within Iran. Ofcourse the response from Iran is to fund, train, and lead attacks against American soldiers in Iraq while at the same time attempting to increase their military capabilities at home and abroad by funding groups like Hamas. This is a dangerous game that can easily spiral out of control into another open war and the destruction of America as we know it. Open ended armed confrontation with Iran will have a devastating affect on the price and supply of oil to our Economy and drive this Nation into an economic depression and the suppession of our constituional rights under more anti-terror legislation.

All of this can be avoided at no cost in blood or the American tax payer. Our leaders could just SIT DOWN AND TALK!,.,., that is it, they just need to talk. It is a sad revelation that our leaders, the educated and wealthy elite of this country, are too proud and indingent to save this Nation from their own pretentious delusions.

"The United States would have a better chance of success if the White House abandoned its threats of military action and its calls for regime change...A successful approach to Iran has to accommodate its security interests and ours. Neither a U.S. air attack on Iranian nuclear facilities nor a less effective Israeli one could do more than merely set back Iran's nuclear program. In either case, the United States would be held accountable and would have to pay the price resulting from likely Iranian reactions. These would almost certainly involve destabilizing the Middle East, as well as Afghanistan, and serious efforts to disrupt the flow of oil, at the very least generating a massive increase in its already high cost. The turmoil in the Middle East resulting from a preemptive attack on Iran would hurt America and eventually Israel, too. Given Iran's stated goals -- a nuclear power capability but not nuclear weapons, as well as an alleged desire to discuss broader U.S.-Iranian security issues -- a realistic policy would exploit this opening to see what it might yield."-Zbigniew Brzezinski and Lt. General William Odom (U.S. Army Retired), "A Sensible Path on Iran," The Washington Post, May 26, 2008.