Draft Older People

[Ron61]

Older Guys

Drafting Guys Over 60 (that's Me & You)


I'm over 60 and the Armed Forces say I'm too old to track down terrorists.
(You can't be older than 35 to join the military.)

They've got the whole thing backwards. Inst ead 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 p er day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky s oldie r
is a dangerous soldier. If we can't kill the enemy we'll complain them into
submission. "My back hurts! I'm hungry! Where's the remote?"

An 18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war
until you're at least old enough to drink. The average old guy, on the
other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer, and a jaunt through the
desert heat with a beer and an M-60 would do wonders for the old beer
belly. (Note there are 24 hours in a day and 24 bottles in a case.. another
convenient way to measure time!)

An 18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10 a.m.

Old guys always get up early to pee.

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 like soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for
guns.

We like them almost better than naps.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat
and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hangin g over the side, nor
did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. I can hear the
Drill Sgt now, "Get down and give me ... er one."

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy. 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 carry on a conversation, and to wear pants without the top of his
butt crack showing and his shorts sticking out. He hasn' t figured out that
a pierced tongue catches food particles, and that a 400-watt speaker in the
back seat of a Honda can rupture an eardrum and that a baseball cap has a
brim to shade 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 cowards who attacked us on
September 11. The last thing an enemy would want to see right now is a
couple of million old farts with attitudes.

Share this with your senior friends. It's purposely in big type so you can
read it.