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Studying Up

A U.S. Army cadet reads a book entitled “Kill Bin Laden” as he waits with other cadets for U.S. President Barack Obama to deliver an address on U.S. policy and the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York December 1, 2009.

Posted by Owen at 2212 hrs
Military + Politics + Politics - General

1. With a CIB and the been there ribbons too.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 02, 2009 at 2226 hrs
   
   
   

2. Talk about a fortuitous bit of earned media for the author…

   Posted by Recess Supervisor on December 02, 2009 at 2252 hrs
   
   
   

3. Maybe he should give it to O to read. I’m sure it doesn’t say “announce your withdrawal plans to the enemy”

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 02, 2009 at 2356 hrs
   
   
   

4. I’d rather know what the guy with the dour face sitting next to the book reader is thinking. Something like, “I REALLY don’t want to be here!”?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 0922 hrs
   
   
   

5. I hope he put it away before the speech started.  I am not an Obama fan, but he is the commander-in-chief.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 1005 hrs
   
   
   

6. I wouldn’t have noticed the ribbons had not Spencer pointed it out. All academies have slots for people who are non-coms.

   I’m kind of surprised he has those decorations on his WP uniform.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 1117 hrs
   
   
   

7. The cadet is obviously a veteran and earned his entry to West Point.

   The ribbons are earned and he sure would not wear them if they were not earned.

   There are fines for anyone to wear a medal that was not earned

   Wonder how many pictures the photographer took before he found one that somebody would criticize.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 1124 hrs
   
   
   

8. Those poor folks had to sit there for 4 hours before it even started

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 1742 hrs
   
   
   

9. “those poor folks” will get quite used to hurry up and wait

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 2045 hrs
   
   
   

10. elovrich,

    Not sure why you put “those poor folks” in quotes

    It looks like sarcasm to say that these brave young people are overprivleged.  Was that your meaning?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 2133 hrs
    
    
    

11. Hello, you are the ones who said they were poor folks. I don’t know if you were being sarcastic or not. My quotes were simply to emphasize that they will have a LOT of hurry up and wait in their futures. Sitting for for hours, even in dress greys is not an unduly long time for a soldier.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 03, 2009 at 2309 hrs
    
    
    

12. It was a direct question that you did not answer with your response.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 05, 2009 at 1027 hrs
    
    
    

13. My meaning was this, that YOU are the one who used the phrase ‘those poor folks’ and I was unsure if you were being sarcastic or not. I have a sense that perhaps you weren’t and that you truly felt sorry for their plight of having to wait 4 whole hours. A 4 hour wait is something that they will have to get used to, if they aren’t already, as ‘hurry up and wait’ is a game that all members of the army have to play quite often in their careers. These cadets will get to play another game also, it’s called ‘bars and stripes’, and the individual with the book will be a very compassionate player of that game, as nearly all prior-enlisted graduates from the Point that I had the honor of serving under where quite aware that as a rule NCOs are a valuable resource.

    Now that I have written a rather long diatribe, I hope that more fully and directly answers your question than my prior response did. If not then let’s try this one:
    
    It looks like sarcasm to say that these brave young people are overprivleged.  Was that your meaning?

    No.

    As for the reason the phrase is in quotes:  I was quoting you, and it is generally understood that when you borrow another’s words that you set them apart from your own with quotation marks ([sarcasm] at least that is what I learned in school, I am sorry that I didn’t cite it according to the APA style book, perhaps it would have kept your head from exploding[/sarcasm])

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 05, 2009 at 1109 hrs
    
    
    

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