# Want your Kid To Be "ARMYSTRONG"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 16, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867 "2007-08-16T22:48:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867/81 "2007-08-18T05:35:51Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] …and the femmy guys, well, you know… [/QUOTE] Wasn’t that YOUR branch? Or am I confusing you with someone else? Whatever, I’ve quoted my sainted daddy (he spent 20 years in THAT branch yet managed to sire four sons) before when he said, “The Infantry’s for chumps.” Words that kept me in school, and led my brother to join that OTHER pussy service, for whatever else it was worth. And, you will note, both of us are still alive, unlike at least one friend who didn’t heed daddy’s advice. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867/82 "2007-08-18T05:43:27Z")
No. I am as un-military a man who was ever born. I spent a number of years as an AF brat. Its not so much I’ve forgotten, there is so little to remember. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867/83 "2007-08-18T05:45:46Z")
Yeah, me too, except I remembered enough to say, “Lemme see: You are a major in the fuckin’ USAF and life for you still sucks this much? No thanks!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867/84 "2007-08-18T06:03:47Z")
Now that I reflect, there was a bright spot: the base theater. Movies were dirt cheap, changed almost every day. Every monster movie. No chick flicks. Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867/85 "2007-08-18T06:52:53Z")
Except the lack of “chick flicks” combined with “(It was) Heaven” reveals you to be the Closet Case we’ve long suspected you were. Sorry for the recent ragging, bro, but the boards have been boring as of late. And, since we both have been taking only minor hits lately, and since you’re not me, who better to dump on? Hell’s fuckin’ bells, NOBODY, to speak of, dumps on me, no matter how asinine I sound. Er, not that that’s an admission of TROLLING. I just have some opinions that NOBODY calls me on, like my opinions of Texans. Makes me feel like the SDMB’s court jester. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867/86 "2007-08-18T07:03:19Z")
No prob, Bob. Ain’t delicate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-your-kid-to-be-armystrong/415867.md?page=4)