Several of my high-school friends and I had been members of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps starting in ninth grade. We thought spending time on those nifty 40-foot patrol boats would be better than marching with M1 Garand rifles all those years, so we fell for the Coast Guard recruiter's spiel and signed up.
On the next morning, we were handed M1 rifles by a couple of former Marine sergeants who were sailors in uniform only and quickly realized the fun was starting all over again.
Our high-school R.O.T.C. drill instructors were Army sergeants, and one of the things they taught us was to hate war. They showed us the real films from battle and especially from the Atomic explosions over Japanese cities at the end of WWII. They had been in both WWII and in Korea and tried to teach us to be good soldiers but also to understand the harm that any war can do to the whole world. That early training explains why I don't advocate nuclear-powered anything. Go for solar and wind power. Forget the rest. It won't happen in my lifetime but it will inevitably be necessary. Delaying the change is stupid.
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You must have saved that hair they shaved off your head at boot camp and had it implanted in your chin.
I wouldn't have recognized you.
It is easy to recognize Aubrey on the left. He has the serious look and that was a poor crop of hair. It wasn't enough to cover his chin the way that scraggly beard does these days.
Did you notice he appears to have made his annual trip to the barber a few weeks ago. Still ain't civilized.
I think he must consider shaving and hair-trimming as unsustainable activities.
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