K4YZ wrote:
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KØHB wrote:
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Army found that out during the Battle of the Bulge...where every
soldier, regardless of MOS, were suddenly IN "battle." Ever
since the U.S. Army has made it a point to continue basic battle
training long after soldiers have finished basic training.

And your point is?

All sorts of people in all sorts of jobs face danger every day, Len.

The electric wires don't put themselves up, and when a storm knocks
out the power, the crews don't get to wait for a sunny day to fix them.

Jim, is this what you meant when you said that you "served in other
ways?"

Jim,

Lens point is that every serviceman and servicewoman in uniform serves with the
understanding that their very life is pledged, at the very real risk of armed
conflict, to serve their fellow man, commonly for material rewards less than
that enjoyed by an Assistant Shift Manager at your local Burger King.

I realize that, Hans, and I honor that pledge and that service. I
apologize if anyone was offended. That was not my intent.

But Len tries to make it sound like no one other than military service
ever faces any danger in their job.

Jim, service men and women are instruments of National Policy. They
face danger defending the Constitution of the United States. And many
if not most wish that their civilian leaders would take the
Constitution a little more seriously.

So when the going gets rough, are they free to quit and walk away? A
lineman can. A policeman can. A fireman can.

When their spouses and children ask when are they going to come home,
and there is no answer?

What is wrong with you to suggest that it's even remotely the same?

In the past (and probably in the future) Len and I have found all sorts of
reasons to disagree, but on this issue I come down four-square on hisside.
Comparing that pledge which Len, Brian, and several other here took, to the
risks "suffered" by an electric company linemen or a construction worker is mean
spirited and unbecoming.

I did not mean to sound that way. Again, if it sounded that way, I
apologize.

Jim, if you felt an "apology" was warranted, then bravo for you.

However if you get into the habit of "apologizing" everytime
someone doesn't like your "tone" or how it MIGHT sound, then you just
spend your whole life apologizing.

Spending your life with your tail between your legs is no way to
live.

Clancy inspired bravado is no way, either.

73

Steve, K4YZ

Now there's someone to take advice from!

Jim, I'm sorry that you don't "get it." You don't get it because you
"served in other ways." Like your constant harping on Len about
professional radio not being the moral equivalent of amateur radio,
your "serving in other ways" isn't even remotely equivalent to military
service, even if you wished it were so. As it stands, you wouldn't
know what to wish for even if that wish were granted.