Drafting Guys Over 60.



I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards.



Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 55.



For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a month, leaving us more than 280,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.



Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are bad-tempered and impatient, and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.



An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 am. Old guys always get up early to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.



If captured, we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.



Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.



They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and never saw a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.



Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.



An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.



These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.



Let us old guys track down those terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million pissed off old farts with bad attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.



HEY!! How about recruiting Women over 50... in menopause!!! You think MEN have attitudes?? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!! If nothing else, put them on border patrol. They'll have it secured the first night!



Send this to all of your senior friends... it's in big type so they can read it.

Like I always tell the young tough guys; Don't pick a fight with an old man, he's too old and tired, he's just kill you.

Yes indeed. Also my favorite scene in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" was when that rather large Berber with his sword was doing his display in profensiancy when Indy with a pained look on his face just took out his triple lock + shot the bastard dead.Great movie.

O.K. one more. We all remember the last space flight that we did + took John Glen along,as was only right.However the thought process from NASA was that at his age ,SOMEBODY had to get up 1st + make the coffee.

While you're waiting to live the dream, might I suggest you content yourselves with the t-shirt.

Norman...

I read an article on making of the scene in Lost Ark you referred to. Apparently Harrison Ford had a bit of stomach trouble on the day that scene was scheduled for filming - that made the gyrations of the proposed scene a dicey proposition that was likely to lead to some soiled trousers. Somebody said "the only way to make the scene shorter is just to shoot him" or words to that effect - and the suggestion was hastily agreed to. One of the best scenes of the movie!

I heard that story as well.Regardless it made a great scene.