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[poindexter]

Firefighting involves gourmet cooking and working out prodigiously as well. At least paid firefighting, as I've witnessed by the local fire truck parked at the grocery store, with five guys in there buying 200 bucks worth of food for a veritable Spanish afternoon of feasting.

In Southern California, the only building they are running into is a Costco. Then its back to the station for washing the pickup trucks and toy haulers, readying for the next trip to Glamis. It is an awesome gig. Heroes? Not so much.

 

[Turtle Wexler]

Because nothing ever catches fire in Southern California?

 

[YankeeFan]

These jokes would be really funny if we didn't have one Firefighter's funeral last week, and hadn't lost another one this week.

 

[nate41]

I wrote a story on an event for military kids with a parent deployed overseas. The organizer (who had no military connections) was about about as vocal and flag waving as they come. I spoke to a family who's husband/father was overseas and they were very nonchalant about it - basically, they did what they had to do and kept living their life.

There's a lot of good people serving and a lot of not so-good ones. It's dangerous to cover them all with one blanket statement, but that goes for anything.

As a sidenote, I have several friends who served and the popular thing to do is to pish on other branches - people in the infantry are stupid, Air Force is lazy, etc.

 

[TrooperBari]

As a sidenote, I have several friends who served and the popular thing to do is to pish on other branches - people in the infantry are stupid, Air Force is lazy, etc.

They don't call it the Chair Force for nothing, after all.

 

[wicked]

http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/?bctid=51777129001

 

[Alma]

These jokes would be really funny if we didn't have one Firefighter's funeral last week, and hadn't lost another one this week.

The supermarket thing is not a joke. It's an observation.