>Everyone, can you say "Volkssturm"?

Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian wrote:
> Everyone, can you say "Volkssturm"?

> --
> "To his friend a man a friend shall prove, and gifts with gifts requite;
> But men shall mocking with mockery answer, and fraud with falsehood meet."
> (The Poetic Edda)
> Must have been written with fundies in mind...

> My personal judgment of monotheism:
> http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus

>     Further evidence that the war in Iraq is wrecking the U.S. Army:
Recruiters,
>  having failed to meet their enlistment targets, are now being
authorized to
>  pursue high-school dropouts and (not to mince words) stupid people.

>     This year the Army set a goal of recruiting 80,000 active-duty
soldiers, but
>  it wound up with just 73,000  almost 10 percent short. As a result,
the
>  Army Times reported this week, the Pentagon has decided to make up
the
>  difference by expanding the pool by letting up to 10 percent of new
recruits
>  be young men and women who have neither graduated high school nor
>  earned a General Equivalence Diploma.
>   --->   http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 10:38:33 -0600, "Ghod" <g...@ameritech.net> wrote:
>Heh....since at least the '70s, the Army has had to have training
>manuals that are basically comicbooks.  If they're lowering their
>standards, what're they going to do about the manuals?

> "God's Creator! (TEXT & HTML)" <Dont_Even_Th...@About.it> wrote in
> message news:rIWdnTm0oddRY9rYnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> [snip]

> Freddieboy, why don't you stop posting in HTML?  It's really
> stupid-looking.

> >     Further evidence that the war in Iraq is wrecking the U.S. Army:
> Recruiters,
> >  having failed to meet their enlistment targets, are now being
> authorized to
> >  pursue high-school dropouts and (not to mince words) stupid people.

> >     This year the Army set a goal of recruiting 80,000 active-duty
> soldiers, but
> >  it wound up with just 73,000  almost 10 percent short. As a result,
> the
> >  Army Times reported this week, the Pentagon has decided to make up
> the
> >  difference by expanding the pool by letting up to 10 percent of new
> recruits
> >  be young men and women who have neither graduated high school nor
> >  earned a General Equivalence Diploma.
> >   --->   http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/

> Heh....since at least the '70s, the Army has had to have training
> manuals that are basically comicbooks.  If they're lowering their
> standards, what're they going to do about the manuals?

>> Heh....since at least the '70s, the Army has had to have training
>> manuals that are basically comicbooks.  If they're lowering their
>> standards, what're they going to do about the manuals?

>We havn't had manuals like that since, well. the '70s

> In article <eiaii9$e...@news.ks.uiuc.edu>, g...@ameritech.net mumbled
>> "God's Creator! (TEXT & HTML)" <Dont_Even_Th...@About.it> wrote in
>> message news:rIWdnTm0oddRY9rYnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> [snip]

>> Freddieboy, why don't you stop posting in HTML?  It's really
>> stupid-looking.

>>> Further evidence that the war in Iraq is wrecking the U.S. Army:
>> Recruiters,
>>> having failed to meet their enlistment targets, are now being
>> authorized to
>>> pursue high-school dropouts and (not to mince words) stupid people.

>>> This year the Army set a goal of recruiting 80,000 active-duty
>> soldiers, but
>>> it wound up with just 73,000  almost 10 percent short. As a result,
>> the
>>> Army Times reported this week, the Pentagon has decided to make up
>> the
>>> difference by expanding the pool by letting up to 10 percent of new
>> recruits
>>> be young men and women who have neither graduated high school nor
>>> earned a General Equivalence Diploma.
>>> --->   http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/

>> Heh....since at least the '70s, the Army has had to have training
>> manuals that are basically comicbooks.  If they're lowering their
>> standards, what're they going to do about the manuals?

> We havn't had manuals like that since, well. the '70s

Joel Edge wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:26:30 -0500, Tankfixer wrote
> (in article <qa92h.740$L6....@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>):

>> In article <eiaii9$e...@news.ks.uiuc.edu>, g...@ameritech.net mumbled
>>> "God's Creator! (TEXT & HTML)" <Dont_Even_Th...@About.it> wrote in
>>> message news:rIWdnTm0oddRY9rYnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>> [snip]

>>> Freddieboy, why don't you stop posting in HTML?  It's really
>>> stupid-looking.

>>>> Further evidence that the war in Iraq is wrecking the U.S. Army:
>>> Recruiters,
>>>> having failed to meet their enlistment targets, are now being
>>> authorized to
>>>> pursue high-school dropouts and (not to mince words) stupid people.

>>>> This year the Army set a goal of recruiting 80,000 active-duty
>>> soldiers, but
>>>> it wound up with just 73,000  almost 10 percent short. As a result,
>>> the
>>>> Army Times reported this week, the Pentagon has decided to make up
>>> the
>>>> difference by expanding the pool by letting up to 10 percent of new
>>> recruits
>>>> be young men and women who have neither graduated high school nor
>>>> earned a General Equivalence Diploma.
>>>> --->   http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/
>>> Heh....since at least the '70s, the Army has had to have training
>>> manuals that are basically comicbooks.  If they're lowering their
>>> standards, what're they going to do about the manuals?
>> We havn't had manuals like that since, well. the '70s

> Since the last of the draftees, late 70's.

> Joel Edge wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:26:30 -0500, Tankfixer wrote
>> (in article <qa92h.740$L6....@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>):

>>> In article <eiaii9$e...@news.ks.uiuc.edu>, g...@ameritech.net mumbled
>>>> "God's Creator! (TEXT & HTML)" <Dont_Even_Th...@About.it> wrote in
>>>> message news:rIWdnTm0oddRY9rYnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>> [snip]

>>>> Freddieboy, why don't you stop posting in HTML?  It's really
>>>> stupid-looking.

>>>>> Further evidence that the war in Iraq is wrecking the U.S. Army:
>>>> Recruiters,
>>>>> having failed to meet their enlistment targets, are now being
>>>> authorized to
>>>>> pursue high-school dropouts and (not to mince words) stupid people.

>>>>> This year the Army set a goal of recruiting 80,000 active-duty
>>>> soldiers, but
>>>>> it wound up with just 73,000  almost 10 percent short. As a result,
>>>> the
>>>>> Army Times reported this week, the Pentagon has decided to make up
>>>> the
>>>>> difference by expanding the pool by letting up to 10 percent of new
>>>> recruits
>>>>> be young men and women who have neither graduated high school nor
>>>>> earned a General Equivalence Diploma.
>>>>> --->   http://www.slate.com/id/2127487/
>>>> Heh....since at least the '70s, the Army has had to have training
>>>> manuals that are basically comicbooks.  If they're lowering their
>>>> standards, what're they going to do about the manuals?
>>> We havn't had manuals like that since, well. the '70s

>> Since the last of the draftees, late 70's.

> My guess is the early 80s, just after Reagan took over. That's when the
> USAF suddenly found a major error in their test-scoring software that
> lowered all current enlistees' scores by about 10-15 points across the
> board.