Trigger me timbers. How many autistic spam posts can manifest about making some shitbag do a gut check.
He seems to really focus on POAG vs POG vs POGUE vs however he wants to spell it. Let me enlighten these fine folks here who were never in the Army.
POAG is just what we called people who weren't infantry. I don't know what sissy scouts do but I don't ever recall using it as an actual acronym to memorize. Perhaps scouts like to send each other love notes between tummy time, and let them know how much they miss each other. POAG is phonetic. Emphasizing the A. Instead of POG, to sound like DOG. POGUE probably does it better to sound like ROGUE. Either way, it's completely fucking irrelevant how any of that shit is spelled. The key take away is that Tummy Time Timmy is going on an illiterate rampage over it.
"BACK IN MY DAY WE KNEW WHAT ACRONYMS WERE!!!"
"NO REAL SOLDIER WOULD EVER GET AN ACRONYM WRONG!!!"
A lot of chest thrusting over the brittle bones of the argument and evading all of the meat. A sticker of a patch is cute. Doesn't mean the fella was in group.
Recon, scouts, LRSD, all act tough. Some are tough, especially in Vietnam they were some bad ass mother fuckers. Now... ehh. A whole lot of hiding and reporting and not a lot of fighting. If they engage the enemy they've failed miserably at their job.
"7 years of my adult life in direct combat", turns to "I was there abouts for 7 years."
Cool.
See, as was I for 3 combat deployments. Since I'm not a raging lunatic taking too many drugs I can describe deployments as I always have before, "15 days of combat and 350 days of Halo, DVD marathons, and boring as fuck patrols, ambushes, raids, cordons yada yada yada." Now add to that that Tummy Time Timmy was in scouts, so in direct combat really means sitting in some fucking building, or out in a hidesight, watching, doing radio checks, and cuddling with his other pals while writing out the word POG. Because in scouts we don't forget no acronyms. Hooah?!
LOL
HAHAHAHA
I know scouts. I know a lot of them. They are the schmucks who spray paint their rifles to look like fucking Rambo, and then go to the PX to by sweet treats and wear boonie hats to be big boy elite soldiers. They aren't chosen from the best of the best of the best. Some get sent there to get out of the line. Some ask to go. Most just think they're cool by being snipers. I'm sure they can shoot well, and they can score a 300+ on the PT, but being choosing to hide is... well... bitchmade. No, no, that's not all scouts do. But they sure as fuck aren't some elite unit.
I'm sure Joe was that fatbody soldier who trundled and mumbled, and found all the fun in digging those fox holes, but when it came to them shots getting fired he froze like all the big bad men did when war came to them, and reenlisted as cadre.
Recon isn't cool. The Army wasn't cool. The fact that you got out and became every much the loser you are with all of the same excuses is telling. Meanwhile, here I am with a G.E.D. and an M.D. Sorry you're poor, and sucked at the Army as much as life.
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