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Post by ladytass2001 on Oct 1, 2004 11:07:50 GMT -5
That is one tough creed but I see parts of it I recognize(or maybe it is just a coincidence). It gives a good feel for what Finn and the squad are in for!!!!
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Post by TOPPER on Oct 1, 2004 13:05:12 GMT -5
That is one tough creed but I see parts of it I recognize(or maybe it is just a coincidence). It gives a good feel for what Finn and the squad are in for!!!! I'm told that depending on how familiar you are with the United States Airborne Creed, Lady Tass, it could seem very familiar. As the Astrals are the logical futuristic evolution of an Airborne regiment, and in order to pay tribute to the Paratroopers who have earned the name, their creed was the basis for the Astral one. It certainly is the sort of thing you'd expect for a group of people dedicated to peacekeeping even while they prepare to be the first to fight.
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Oct 1, 2004 14:33:45 GMT -5
That is one tough creed but I see parts of it I recognize(or maybe it is just a coincidence). It gives a good feel for what Finn and the squad are in for!!!! FRI. OCT. 1/2004/15:34 E.S.T.
“O, GOD™, this makes me happy!”
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Post by ladytass2001 on Oct 1, 2004 14:42:51 GMT -5
Actually Topper when I went to go to service it was the Airborn Rangers that I tried to get into(at that time women were not allowed to go ranger's,as I was told by my recruiter) that and the fact that I couldn't get in because of medical requirement's
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Oct 1, 2004 20:28:36 GMT -5
Actually Topper when I went to go to service it was the Airborn Rangers that I tried to get into(at that time women were not allowed to go ranger's,as I was told by my recruiter) that and the fact that I couldn't get in because of medical requirement's FRI. OCT. 1/2004/21:34 E.S.T.
LADYTASS,
When I read your post, the first thing that came to my mind was the bridge section of “SECONDS”, from U2™” “WAR”:
“I wanna be an Airborne Ranger! (Repeat) I wanna live the life of danger! (Repeat)”
What was it that appealed specifically to you about that regiment?
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Post by ladytass2001 on Oct 1, 2004 20:39:38 GMT -5
Action,new places weapon's,airplanes,Para-Jumping,training, and fighting--it was everything that a girl could want rolled up into one job. It was dangerous and stimulating,daring and bold and yes the whole I want to be an airborne ranger.....They wanted to stick me behind a desk to be a linguist in Germany(3 years high school German). I had different plan's---
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Oct 1, 2004 20:49:07 GMT -5
Action,new places weapon's,airplanes,Para-Jumping,training, and fighting--it was everything that a girl could want rolled up into one job. It was dangerous and stimulating,daring and bold and yes the whole I want to be an airborne ranger.....They wanted to stick me behind a desk to be a linguist in Germany(3 years high school German). I had different plan's--- FRI. OCT. 1/2004/21:55 E.S.T. –
LADYTASS,
Acknowledged, thanks for the intel!
Given that you had the language they wanted, did it not occur to you to bargain with them to get what you wanted?
I can’t help thinking that the Recruitment Officer did not try hard enough to get you aboard the team….
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Post by ladytass2001 on Oct 1, 2004 20:57:01 GMT -5
The recruiter didn't even want to listen to me he just had this thing that this is what I was going to do and that was it. It was linguist or nothing in his eye's. This after telling me I scored high enough on my A.S.V.A.B(Armed Services Vocational Apptitude Battery) to do "anything I wanted to do,be anything I wanted to be" I was a little pi***d O** but in the end it didn't matter couldn't pass the Physical--bad knee,blown-out ankle's (high school sports will really kill a person-LoL )
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Oct 1, 2004 22:04:10 GMT -5
The recruiter didn't even want to listen to me he just had this thing that this is what I was going to do and that was it. It was linguist or nothing in his eye's. This after telling me I scored high enough on my A.S.V.A.B(Armed Services Vocational Apptitude Battery) to do "anything I wanted to do,be anything I wanted to be" I was a little pi***d O** but in the end it didn't matter couldn't pass the Physical--bad knee,blown-out ankle's (high school sports will really kill a person-LoL ) FRI. OCT. 1/2004/23:10 E.S.T. –
LADYTASS,
I find it curious that you would want to jump from aeroplanes, given those chronic injuries.
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Post by ladytass2001 on Oct 1, 2004 22:12:35 GMT -5
It has to do with being an adrenaline junkie I think--LoL-- Faster, higher,harder and more extreme should have been my motto--I did things that should have killed me. But at the time they made perfect sense but boy I look back now and think it may have been a death wish(just joking)or it may have been all the drugs(LoL)The 80's were a great time to be alive!!
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Post by First Leftenant on Oct 2, 2004 8:03:58 GMT -5
LADYTASS! Cool! You were trying out for Airborne Rangers! Wow. My version of adrenaline rushing involves booting down mountains boarding, don' think i could ever "jump" out of a plane!
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Oct 2, 2004 10:00:35 GMT -5
It has to do with being an adrenaline junkie I think--LoL-- Faster, higher,harder and more extreme should have been my motto--I did things that should have killed me. But at the time they made perfect sense but boy I look back now and think it may have been a death wish(just joking)or it may have been all the drugs(LoL)The 80's were a great time to be alive!! SAT. OCT. 2/2004/11:07 E.S.T. –
LADYTASS,
“Faster, higher, harder & more extreme”? Why stop @ the Airborne Rangers; why not the Special Air Service or Delta Force? (“Deeds, not words”)
Whenever I hear “EIGHTIES” by KILLING JOKE™, I shall think of you.
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FIRST LEFTENANT,
Speeding down a snow-&-ice-covered cliff face with one’s feet nailed to a waxed length of wood/fibreglass sounds far more potentially damaging to me than jumping from an aeroplane, which was only frightening immediately *before* I departed the craft, because I was psychologically prepared to go first, but the Jumpmaster dictated that since I had the greatest mass, I should jump last, instead, which gave me the “treat” of witnessing several others’ grimaces of sheer terror as they were “compelled” by him to leave the relative safety of doorless aircraft.
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Post by ladytass2001 on Oct 2, 2004 10:01:43 GMT -5
I have never ski'ed(?) or snow boarded though so what's the rush like there?
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Post by ladytass2001 on Oct 2, 2004 10:04:26 GMT -5
MX, I wanted the Ranger's because the Army run's in my family--Great Grandfather,Grandfather,I wanted to be the next to go.
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Oct 2, 2004 10:43:41 GMT -5
MX, I wanted the Ranger's because the Army run's in my family--Great Grandfather,Grandfather,I wanted to be the next to go. SAT. OCT. 2/2004/11:49 E.S.T.
LADYTASS,
I have done neither, so I would be speculating, there, & will defer to FIRST LEFTENANT’S expertise therein.
I am always impressed by military tradition in a family, particularly when it is not restricted to the males. Were they also Rangers?
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