Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, but they certainly take their toll!

[Targan]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

Billions wasted on everything from studing the sex life of a turtle...

When I was a kid I lived on a desert island for a year and I saw sea turtles having sex in the ocean...

Just thought I'd mention it.

[simonmark6]

So you can answer the riddle, "What's the sound of two turtles F***ing?"

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by Targan

When I was a kid I lived on a desert island for a year and I saw sea turtles having sex in the ocean...

Just thought I'd mention it.

For those who have been at the NTC at Fort Irwin....remember, this?

There is a desert turtle that lives in the American Southwest, the Great Spotted Dying Of Thirst Turtle if I remember it's name correctly. The Army got hit with a enviro group protest/law suit concerned that having all of those evil tankers driving those horrid tanks would go out of their way just to run over these helpless turtles (well, we would, WHAT, you expect a bunch of 19-20 years old to behave?!?!?).

Soooo, some minor Major, deep in the bowels of the Pentagon, came up with this great idea. All of the GIs had to go out into the desert and drag the helpless, screaming turtles until HMMWVs and subject them to high speed runs to this wired enclosure, where dedicated turtle keepers could care for this endangered species...here they live out their lives, eating, drinking, shiting....and screwing.

Yup! The world's largest turtle boredello is located on the grounds of the NTC!

And teams of GIs (the dirty bunch of pervs!), go there and sip tepid water and watch live sex acts performed by the turtles for hours....

And thus the Fort Irwin Joke-of-all-Jokes was born.

A GI watched a male turtle mount a female turtle and calls out "IN!"

His partner watches for a few moments, looks at his watch, admires a passing cloud in the sky and then calls "OUT!"

The first GI relaces his boots, takes a quick whiz behind a cactus and walks back and calls "IN!"

I've have seen this damned series go on for most of a day....

And for the protesters? Well, they had to go find a new cause and somebody else to annoy...it seems that the turtles enjoy their "Love Shack" so much that they have pulled themsleves (no pun intended) right off the endangered species list!

[Targan]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

There is a desert turtle that lives in the American Southwest, the Great Spotted Dying Of Thirst Turtle if I remember it's name correctly.

I'm guessing if it lives in a desert its actually a tortoise?

[Legbreaker]

Getting back to the serious nature of the thread....

I know we all like to have experienced PCs, but with that experience comes age, and with that age, especially for a combat type, comes lasting and probably permanent injury. How much do we all think this should be reflected in RPing the said expert PCs?

As an example of injury, here in Australia we have a Clearance Diver who was previously in the infantry. Although serving in an active combat zone, he escaped serious injury until a training exercise (actually he was acting as a target during the testing of devices to detect surface swimmers approaching ships) when he was mauled by a shark. He lost a leg and arm.

Even so, he's still on the staff and physically puts to shame many of the more able bodied.

[Legbreaker]

It takes a day like Anzac day to really drive home the sacrifices our servicemen and women make every day just to keep the rest of us safe. Personally it's been very emotional to remember that individuals fought and died, sometimes knowing full well that to go over the top almost guaranteed death within seconds - but they still went...

Even right this very moment we have soldiers overseas doing their duty, facing death or injury far from those they love. Perhaps the chance of dying is somewhat less than the trenches of WWI, but, as many of those who have been to Iraq or Afghanistan in recent times can attest, it only takes a moment for a roadside bomb, or a stray bullet...

Regardless of what anyone believes personally about the justification of having armed troops in foreign countries, we MUST support the troops. Any disagreements we may have will policy should be directed at those making the decisions - the politicians, many of whom haven't so much as seen a rifle, let alone served in the military.

My thoughts are with the soldiers. May every last one of them come home safely.