That sucks. Times have changed. I got home one time (2011, in uniform) got out of my friend's car, walked in the bar, and within 60 seconds got a free beer.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Your most lucky Skippy.

I wasnt old enough to legally drink when I got back / out.
discharged on the 24th, my birthday wasnt for another 12 days

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

A sniper is nothing more than extremely effective artillery. You gotta problem with artillery, too?

Addressing the title of this thread........

The only people who need to share the moral burden are the bastards in DC who started it. We all know that will never happen.

I feel better now./

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Mike Murrell
1991 300-SEL - Model 126
M103 - SOHC
"Fräulein"

Excellent sniper demo!

Thats a point of view--Not mine.
read the ones book thats being commented about.
A different point of view is a sniper is a coward hiding from his vantage--telling himself the targets are not even humam--just "ragheads" that make no difference .
oh -also they automatically lie about the targets carrying explosives when the dont know one way or the other, so just kill em all-as far as the "hero" is concerned.

A sniper is someone who shot a very high score at the rifle range in boot camp.
He is selected for sniper training. He cannot say 'I do not wish to be a coward'.

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Mike Murrell
1991 300-SEL - Model 126
M103 - SOHC
"Fräulein"

You are so wrong that the word, "wrong" is wholly inadequate to the occasion.

He cannot say anything but "Yes Sir'
he was a yes man all the time he was in the military, but afterwards--glorifying himself FOR FAME AND PROFIT.

This is a “yes man” who was so callous to the effects of his violence that he intentionally took a veteran with combat PTSD to a shooting range as a form of therapy.

So you have allowed yourself to focus on the acts of ONE sniper.

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Mike Murrell
1991 300-SEL - Model 126
M103 - SOHC
"Fräulein"

He's the one that went on tour, pulling ridiculous publicity stunts to plug his book about killing people legally -in a war zone.

The imbecile that thought it a good idea to bury him next to some real heros' one of which was my ancestor (a guy named Travis), and his side kick sara - thats nothing more than party posturing---NOTHING MORE. Thats as clear an example od the divide that runs right down the middle of this forum, the ignorant sheep mobs, and the uh--somewhat enlightened.

Is it your suggestion that wars should be comprised of people who kill each other illegally?

That people involved in war should just shut up and go away?

I REALLY like that second sentence since you asked, especially wars started on ridiculous BS reasons,

We will never know how much Iraq cost us, they decided to just muffle the data--The public didnt need to know--classified.

Failed to address the line of discussion you began.

Look, a butterfly!

Since you appear to be a scientist with an absolutely Shut mind---trying to ignore , and reverse~twist the thread subject, i wont play your game.
But the OP posting it and continuing to double talk about such matters wether its special forces , and this guy -Not talking about what they did, and then him and his " Club"deciding he is good for an exception because of punching jessie ventura to plug the books he wrote, etc......... thats BUNK. I dont know if ventura was still Gov at the time but had he done this with the idiot in the mansion here in tEXAS , ..... once again instead of making speeches about the sniper being a "hero" and planting him in the state cemetary -purely for pandering to the rabid right wing base here,, he would have had the guy put in the pen wether he still held office ,or not.--and he'd still alive today.