I’m obese. I was fighting g the battle for myself, and no one else.
Are you obese and sit around telling everyone how you could kick ISIS ass if only they would let you? Then it’s not about you. He was talking about a person (and I have met people like this) who are wannabe blowhards who are unwilling to even try to do what they constantly talk about.
I have to imagine the recruiters roll their eyes inwardly at the 38-year old guy in size 52 camo pants who pulls up to the building in a truck with a NOBAMA sticker on it. And I imagine they get more than a few.
I imagine they don’t - that would take more courage than most of those poseurs can summon.
Heh. “I’m not out here for the glory.”
I think I saw this on King of the Hill.
The punchline is this is in Eugene, Oregon … a community who diligently works to be the most extreme of liberalism … the bluest of the blues … Jesse Jackson country as it were.
But we do like our guns …
I’m a member of a couple of gun buying/trading groups on facebook, and immediately after the shootings someone proposed “guarding” the local recruiting centers.
I tried to explain what a stupid idea it would be to suddenly appear outside of a recruiting center with a firearm, and was immediately lambasted for my lack of patriotism.
Doesn’t matter that I joined the Navy during the first Gulf War, I’m not a patriot because I think it’s irretrievably idiotic to assume the local strip mall needs a bunch of armed dipshits loafing around.
When I think to myself, I call myself ‘Mike’. It makes it more interesting that way, kind of like a real conversation.
My real name is not Mike.
Off-topic and all, but damn, that’s the first time an *Onion *article has made me mist up.
Their coverage for the month after 9/11 was amazing. The one about God clarifying that “if anyone tries to tell you I want you to kill someone, they’re wrong” is the one that gets my tears going every time. The one about the hijackers surprised to find themselves burning in hell is hilarious.
And from a link in a comment to that story, a Navy recruiter accidentally shot himself with his own weapon in a recruiting center in Georgia.
The irony, it burns.
Nope. That’s not me. I’m a pacifist not an ass-kicker. I wish they did not exist but I don’t wish to murder people. Not even them.
My apologies for zoning in on the weight aspect of your post. I do understand that it wasn’t about that.
Well, I’m fatter than you. So there! 
Nah; in this case it’ll be the UCMJ that’s going to burn the moron, er recruiter who disobeyed a lawful regulation or lawful order. I’ll be interested to see if the recruiter’s commanding officer disposes of this case via Article 15 proceedings or with a court-martial.
Monty, what is your military experience?
6 1/2 years, United States Army, Active Duty, separated at the rank of Specialist (5), transferred to the drilling Reserve. 13 months drilling with the Army Reserve, separated from Reserves upon enlistment into the US Navy. 13 1/2 years, United States Navy, Active Duty, retired as Personnelman First Class.
What’s yours?
And let me say, moderation in the mockery of bigotry is no virtue.
Nobody likes a slacker.
:D. :D. 
You went from the Army to the Navy? Asking purely out of personal curiosity, but what drove that change? Or is changing services more common than I assume?