Franks Tanks wrote:CID1990 wrote:
That's the shortest defense of your quittertude that you have ever made, Tanks. Usually it is this long, defensive biographical diatribe of how you just decided to waste a year or two of your life in a school that has no other purpose other than to matriculate kids into West Point.
Nobody believes you, because your magnetic attraction to threads that are derogatory about The Citadel belie your insecurity about and hostility towards those characteristics of military schools that caused you to wet your pants and question your own ability to complete anything you start.
If gays have fag hags, the The Citadel has Franks Tanks.
Run-on sentance. sue me.
CID 1990.
I of cousre attended West Point Prep with the intention of attending West Point. However, decided it wasnt for me just like 40% of my peers that also attended. I decided to not pursue admission to West Point when my commitment at the prep school was over.
Also Citadel is not a "military school" in the true sense as it has no connection whatsoever with the US Military. No stronger conncetion that is than any other school with an active ROTC program.
I have a lot of respect for the military and those who have served, but I find the behavior of Citadel folks stragely fascinating .
Did you servve in the mililtary?? If so congrats for your service. However, if I recall I believe you said you were a local cop--please dont give me a parking tickett officer.
FT, seriously, you need to stop the bleeding. Every time I whack you on AGS my rep goes up 100 points. Everyone sees right through you.
I am not ashamed of anything I have done, nor am I ashamed of any of my life decisions. That is why I will not under normal circumstances explain my life history to you, because (1) you do not rate it, and (2) I could care less what people on a message board think of me personally. Especially someone who everyone on this message board thinks is lashing out at The Citadel out of petulance and sour grapes. Your ONLY dog in this fight is the fact that you spent two years in a military prep school for naught. You use the same old tired explanation and everybody just giggles at you , Nancy.
However, since you asked a direct question I will answer you.
I graduated from The Citadel. All the while I was in college, I was also in the US Navy Reserves (paying my way through school since I chose not to go the USNA). After graduation, I remained in the U.S. Navy and the reserves until I resigned in 1995. I was a police officer from 1992 until six months ago. In 2004 and 2005 I was in Baghdad training the Iraqi police while being bombed and shot at on several different occasions. I also spent some time overseas doing a few other things. One thing is for sure, I didn't waste taxpayer money going to a prep school for two years to decide if I could hack West Point. BTW- most of those 40% guys don't enter the USMA because they don't have the grades or they can't hack it. That's why they (and you) were at West Point Prep to begin with.
I now work for the State Department. So, my entire life has been spent in some kind of public service. THAT is the Citizen Soldier concept. It is the concept embraced by The Citadel and VMI. Your superior attitude evidenced by your virtual jock sniffing on all threads involving El Cid as well as your snide comment about my career in law enforcement belie your insecurity about having done, well,
nothing. You understand nothing about VMI or The Citadel OR the citizen soldier because in your world, the only true military academies are the ones run by that wonderfully efficient model of bureaucracy, the Federal Government. Your own words betray your extremely light knowledge of much of anything having to do with military schools. In fact, since you DIDN'T even go to West Point, I would argue that you're not much of an authority on that, either.
As for the behavior you find fascinating, I would submit to you that the only thing you find fascinating is the testicles that swing between the legs of all VMI, The Citadel, West Point, USNA and USAFA graduates who actually decided to matriculate rather than take two years in prep school to realize they weren't up to it.
Think about it Tanks... the biggest, most important decision you ever made in your life was to NOT go to West Point. You decided to take the road MORE traveled, and for you, that has made all the difference.
