Ukraine (6 Viewers)

[baarbogast]

I may have a lifetime job.

 

[nolaspe]

 

[nolaspe]

 

[nolaspe]

 

[HoustonSaint68]

As long as they don't send these guys to the front.



Then Ukraine might be in trouble

 

[baarbogast]

 

[efil4stnias]

pretty cool - UAF AASM Hammer glide bomb launch.

 

[SamAndreas]

I'm not sure what the distinction is between "volunteer brigade" and UAF ... are you referring to the TDF? I thought they were under the purview of the UAF.


Regardless of how he got there, I'd seriously question whoever accepted him back into front line service

You appear to have a textbook view on this, which ignores practically. People with missing parts are people, and are useful, and still need to be used.

The tradition for this goes back to and beyond Captain Hook and peg leg Sam.

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

You appear to have a textbook view on this, which ignores practically. People with missing parts are people, and are useful, and still need to be used.

The tradition for this goes back to and beyond Captain Hook and peg leg Sam.

Like I said before, its not his capability that I questioned - if a double amputee can compete in the Olympics and be competitive, thats pretty strong evidence that prosthetics are pretty darn good nowadays. It was the optics and how it can be spun by opponents of Ukraine.

If Ukraine wasn't having recruitment problems, this would be a different story.

 

[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]

 

[SamAndreas]

I just think its a bad look. I know it was all volunteer but they should have told him no. Perhaps he did serve just as well if not better than someone who wasn't an amputee - kinda like Oscar Pistorius being in the Olympics, but again the optics of it don't make sense for me.

You know what he should have done was been a recruiter. He might have been able to guilt trip some of these evaders into joining.

I've got an inkling that you have read, BILL the Galactic Hero. This is link to a preview which allows one to read the first few pages. It is in those first pages where I got my inkling that you may have seen this. Or something very similar.

The ending of the book has Bill becoming a recruiter, recreating a scene which was like where it all began.

Bill, the Galactic Hero

Bill, the Galactic Hero is written by Harry Harrison who is also the author of Deathworld, Make Room! Make Room! (filmed as Soylent Green), the popular Stainless Steel Rat books, and many other famous works of SF."Simply the funniest science fiction book ever written."--New York Times...

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[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]

 

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