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Enough Already, Dammit
Posted by Prof | Filed under Overstepping
From a friend of mine, who got the quote from her army officer brother:
This is all we need. Gun carrying soldiers on nicotine fits.
BTW :FDR smoked Cigarettes
Churchill smoked cigars (and drank like a man)
Hitler was a tee totaling anti-smoking vegetarian
I know who’s company I’d rather be in
The Pentagon really has to understand that young men (and old soldiers) who are on the sharp end really don’t care about years down the road…they just want to get through the next patrol.
NannyState, you are again over-reaching.
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July 31st, 2009
This is a proposal of one of the more nanny-ish departments, not of the Pentagon. The Pentagon has announced that it will not forbid soldiers to smoke! I heard both in the same newscast.
November 6th, 2009
I was in Vietnam when the bureaucrats decided that smoking was bad for you, and pulled the little 5-packs of smokes out of the C-Rations. The life expectancy of an M-60 machine-gunner in a firefight was about 5 minutes, and the Pentagon weenies were worried about lung cancer at 60? The cigarettes kept the mosquitoes off, and could be used to burn off leaches, too. If you didn’t smoke (I didn’t.) you could trade your cigarettes for someone else’s fruit cocktail or peaches. Can we just, please, focus on winning and/or killing the Taliban and Al Quaida leadership and getting the hell out instead of playing politically-correct games with military personnel’s personal and voluntary vices?