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Old 02-28-2009, 01:44 AM
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Originally Posted by copeab
I think this is a case where the military experience of many players works against them. The men you served with are not at all like the the men being drafted in 2000, unless you served with 14 year old boys or 50 year old fat CPAs with asthma and high blood pressure. If you have man in your unit close to 20, it's because he's a heroin-addicted thief booted out of prison. Are you still going to claim that there is not a useful percentage of the female population mure physically capable than such male recruits?

Frankly, the manpower situation is far worse than what Germany faced in 1945.
The first time I finally realized that was when I was a young newly-minted sergeant and found my squad almost had to have military manners and respect pounded into them...the previous squad leader put up with their antics -- if they weren't appropriate, I didn't.
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