I AM SO TIRED

This story is truly poignant and I use that word rarely. The writing is clean (as an experienced editor, the minor flaws become invisible to me when I read something so well written. I tried to reply to the author on the site, but am not a member. If someone here is a member, please tell this author his brief, concise article elicited this response from an Air Force veteran, a spouse of a retired Air Force veteran and the mother of a 20 year old man whose future has been limited by the lunatics beating their drums when we would be better served if they confined themselves to the circle jerk they belong in.

Here is what I would like to post to him:

NOT MY SON. If every mother in this country who is outraged at the bloodthirsty lunatics in Washington D.C. would stand up and say NOT MY SON or DAUGHTER, it might end. If every mother would en masse convey this message to the spineless, self-aggrandizing idiotic elitists in D.C.? Secure our borders, get rid of the idiotic restraints on industry and manufacturing, stop redistributing our wealth and redistribute yourselves to oblivion, you arrogant jerks, and let the rest of the world make their own decisions about their own future relationship with each other and with our country. And, while you are at it, fall to your knees ask the Lord for forgiveness for what you did to this poor soldier who knew James Foley in Afghanistan.

Man, I’m ticked off.

@ Gubmint cheese. Indeed, the brilliant bean counters who determined that hiring private contractors was a much more efficient way to ensure continuity of service for “non-combat” roles and then managed to expand the meaning of “non-combat” in a way that makes me afraid to even go shopping on the Air Force base where I once worked happily, oblivious to what was going on around me.

Now, I know. Lunacy is all around us.

My husband works as an civilian contracted instructor on Tinker AFB, here in Oklahoma City. He has had access to the E-3 AWACS flight line (aka Area 8 for decades) on Tinker for more than 35 years, first as an active duty Air Force aircraft computer maintenance technician, than as an AWACS aircrew member, and now, as a contractor hired to train new aircrew members. A security clearance is updated on him every five or ten years, as protocol determines and his badge is marked with the numbers of which secure areas he has a need to enter on the base. Sometime in the last few days or weeks, a bureaucrat on the base (who probably needed a performance bullet for his or her promotion referral) CHANGED the numbers of the secure areas of the base. So, my husband, whose job it is to train students on AWACS flight procedures, after 35+ years of showing his access badge to a gate guard as he enters the flight line, can no longer enter the area because the area is no longer area 8. In spite of the fact that he took his new class of students through that same gate just a week or so ago to introduce them to the airplane and nothing has changed except the area number, he no longer has access. If nothing is done about this lunacy, he and hundreds, if not thousands, of personnel will be required to go get access letters signed with the new, improved area number and then proceed to the identification office to get new access badges made. Whether or not a new security clearance investigation is required to make sure each qualifies for access to the new, improved numbered area will depend on another bureaucrat who might need a wheel reinvention bullet for his or her promotion report. All of this will cost we the taxpayers untold thousands, if not millions, of dollars changing maps of the Air Force base, badges, security guides, training and repair materials, technical publications, et cetera.

Now, those who look at my husband and I and wonder how we could possibly give up these good paying government jobs we are so qualified for in order to head for the hills and raise goats, chickens and big territorial dogs are welcome to come try to cope with this madness themselves for 35+ years. As a matter of fact, I have a nice little acre of ground and a house I’ll sell you so you can do just that.

It’s all over the news, Maggie, 75% of the American people agree with war. It was a poll for Gods sake! The talking heads say obama didn’t have to do much more than agree with the will of the American people.

We want to send our mothers, fathers, sons and daughters to fight, be maimed and die for our way of life, freedom, the flag, we must do this before those heathen barbaric head cutters destroy us.

The country that most needs regime change is the USA.

@Card, polls can be worded to predetermine the outcome–be wary of those results.

@Maggie, some of the info you provided about the air base could be considered a breach of security that could result in revocation of your security clearances because you specifically provided the name of the base. Be careful…

Maggie, I know you don’t need any warnings from me and I didn’t intend to offend your sense of awareness and knowledge. You know far more than I of the security specifics of that installation. I do know, however, that that kind of specific info could be considered a breach in other ‘agencies’.

@RiseUp MOLON LABE

@RU… that I agree with.

Don’t you worry Stucky , I am never leaving you.

Feeling much love for this guest post. I understand and agree with him.

I watched “Lone Survivor” with Mark Wahlberg – wailed through the special features. I watched it again and cried like my own child was dead. I purchased the DVD and Bluray and made my sisters, Dad & Son watch it. I was overwhelmed with grief.

Would I send my 18yr old for all that seal training and survival skills to die on a hill like that, or an vehicle, or a Chinook? Why? I said to myself – if my child is to get 15 bullets on his body and to his head in a fight, let his blood spill in his own country, on this ground, in his country of birth, defending it. Not in another country for another peoples. Let him guard his own home, his parents, sisters and friends. Right here!

I maybe the only one who thinks this way and I am an immigrant from a dark third-1/2 world country.

@ Margie,
It maybe that way for you and your husband with regards to the “New Babylon” however, go and MAKE DISCIPLES OF MEN! (rather train as many who are true in heart and blood for this country)
You have the know how! and may it reach as many as possible.

I happen to believe that the evil that prevails will be at our door step sooner than we think.

Kill Bill , I love you.

@Mr. Chen…. sigh. It happens a lot. I have an Italian last name and when asked to pronounce it, I just start spelling.