AuthorsDen.com  Join (free) | Login 

   Popular! Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry
Where Authors and Readers come together!

Signed Bookstore | Authors | eBooks | Books | Stories | Articles | Poetry | Blogs | News | Events | Reviews | Videos | Success | Gold Members | Testimonials

Featured Authors: Peter Jessop, iNordette Adams, iBilly Allmon, iJoćo Cerqueira, iAnn Marquette, iAudrey Coatesworth, iBrian Kavanagh, i
  Home > Humor > Articles
Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry     

Mark M Lichterman

· Become a Fan
  Notify me of new titles
  added by this author.

-
· 1,622 titles
· 5,029 Reviews
· Share with a Friend
· Save to My Library
· Add to My Favorites
·
Member Since: Jun, 2008

   Sitemap
   My Blog
   Success Story
   Contact Author
   Read Reviews

Books
· Becoming

· For Better or Worse

· The Climbing Boy


Short Stories
· Murphy’s Law

· Geriatric Romance 1&2

· Climbing Boy: Lady 2

· Climbing Boy: Lady 1

· Christmas in Evanston3

· Christmas In Evanston2

· Christmas in Evanston Pt 1

· Touch A Sweep

· Fish Wagon

· The Climbing Boy


Articles
· No! I don't Tweet!

· Crime Stats & Guns

· AuthorsDen Worthwhile?

· Paper Is Not Dead

· Older Ain't So Bad

· Beautiful

· Dumb Joke #9

· The Great Flydini

· Deno, Donnie & Frank?

· 4 daysB/4Christmas 1943


Poetry
· Prelude to Disaster

· Solar Powered Sex Machine

· 78/68

· I've A Dog

· Done By An Asian Guy

· Our First

· Old Woman, Old Man

· Nocturnal Erotica

· Gray Sky Opening

· Band of Gold

         More poetry...
News
· Becoming Video Trailer

· Book Fair. Who's coming?

· Article in Ventura County Star 8/17/08

Mark M Lichterman, click here to update your web pages on AuthorsDen.

Draft The Old Guys
By Mark M Lichterman
Last edited: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012



Share    Print   Save  Become a Fan
Recent articles by
Mark M Lichterman

• No! I don't Tweet!
• Crime Stats & Guns
• AuthorsDen Worthwhile?
• Paper Is Not Dead
• Older Ain't So Bad
• Beautiful
• Dumb Joke #9
           >> View all 363
If you haven't seen this before, it's really funny!
If you have seen it before; what the hell, see it again because it's still funny.



 
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 35.
 
For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 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 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 dirty, rotten, coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million pissed off old farts with 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!
 
If you send this to your senior friends make sure it's in big type so they can read it.

 

 

 

Web Site mmlichterman.com
f

Reader Reviews for "Draft The Old Guys"


Want to review or comment on this article?
Click here to login!


Need a FREE Reader Membership?
Click here for your Membership!


Reviewed by Keith Rowley 7/14/2012
Nice one Mark - enjoyed it!
Reviewed by Annabel Sheila 7/9/2012
Hahahahahahahahahahaa! I couldn't agree more on both counts....I bet I could have all borders secured on my own in minutes (at time)...giggle...thanks for sharing, Mark.

Your friend,
Anna
Reviewed by John Martin 7/7/2012
Mark, you should take up prospecting...you have uncanny knack for finding pure gold and jewels. Thanks for sharing
   - eBooks
   - Marketplace
   - FaceBook




Popular
Humor Articles
  1. Are We Suffering From Terminal Seriousness
  2. About dicks and arseholes.
  3. Humorous Exercise Quotes and One-liners
  4. It's the Old Spice Guy: Look at Him, Now L
  5. Tiddly Bits II
  6. Passport Application Letter
  7. The Incredible weight loss Machine
  8. Older Ain't So Bad
  9. No! I don't Tweet!
  10. A Penny For My Thoughts?

You can also search authors by alphabetical listing: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Bookmark this page to your Favorites

Featured Authors
| New to AuthorsDen? | Add AuthorsDen to your Site
Share AD with your friends | Need Help? | About us


Problem with this page?   Report it to AuthorsDen

© AuthorsDen, Inc. All rights reserved.