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<blockquote data-quote="jibbs" data-source="post: 1108309">ORLY, I&#039;ve been with you every step of the way in this thread. I may not share all of the same views as you but I wholly respect your right to have them and I even understand how they came to be. That said, I&#039;ve taken issue with the excerpt from your post quoted above. My personal AFQT was 94, top 1%-- it was everything I needed to get my foot in the door, a rifle in my hand and a face in my crosshairs. My waivers for drug offenses were denied and I started working at UPS, what? Maybe a week and a half later?Point being, if something&#039;s your destiny, there is no &quot;was.&quot; Enlist, train and go fight. Backing away from what you call your destiny (which, according to you, is in the business of being a warrior) because there&#039;s a war going on is the biggest bitch move I&#039;ve ever heard of. I&#039;ve been told no, but, on my recruiter&#039;s advice, I train with him every Saturday morning while the my region&#039;s moratorium on drug waivers are lifted or until a new commanding officer is installed. Giving up in the face of adversity is a sign of weakness, and, to a much greater extent, so is turning your back on destiny because it was lighting up your path but you didn&#039;t trust the brightness.That said, I do support your choice on not paying union dues and I&#039;ve generally come to enjoy your contributions to this board. I just don&#039;t like what I saw in the post above concerning our armed forces.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jibbs, post: 1108309"] [b] ORLY, I've been with you every step of the way in this thread. I may not share all of the same views as you but I wholly respect your right to have them and I even understand how they came to be. That said, I've taken issue with the excerpt from your post quoted above. My personal AFQT was 94, top 1%-- it was everything I needed to get my foot in the door, a rifle in my hand and a face in my crosshairs. My waivers for drug offenses were denied and I started working at UPS, what? Maybe a week and a half later? Point being, if something's your destiny, there is no "was." Enlist, train and go fight. Backing away from what you call your destiny (which, according to you, is in the business of being a warrior) because there's a war going on is the biggest bitch move I've ever heard of. I've been told no, but, on my recruiter's advice, I train with him every Saturday morning while the my region's moratorium on drug waivers are lifted or until a new commanding officer is installed. Giving up in the face of adversity is a sign of weakness, and, to a much greater extent, so is turning your back on destiny because it was lighting up your path but you didn't trust the brightness. That said, I do support your choice on not paying union dues and I've generally come to enjoy your contributions to this board. I just don't like what I saw in the post above concerning our armed forces.[/b] [/QUOTE]

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