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Great news, with killers such as this, it will be more difficult for ZOG to repress us.
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Grandma, 41, Among Army's Older Recruits
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/MARY ANN CHASTAIN
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FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) -- Margie Black had wanted to enter the military as a teenager, but having her first child at 19 put off her ambitions. So when she learned the Army raised its enlistment age, Black, now a 41-year-old grandmother from West Columbia, Texas, didn't hesitate to join. The decision took "about 30 seconds," she said.
On Friday, Pvt. Black worked on her marksmanship skills here, while her 21-year-old daughter was at Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
"I'm taking it one day at a time," Black said. "If I do that, I can handle it."
Older soldiers like her are showing up more often at Army training bases across the country since Congress gave the service approval earlier this year to raise its enlistee age limit, which had been 35, to just under 42 years.
"We're finding there's a lot of people out there that wanted to join, and age was their only disqualifier," said Leslie Ann Sully, a spokeswoman for the Army's local recruiting battalion near Fort Jackson.
"Lots of people (over 35) are fit and are living longer, and they figure they can do this," Sully said.
The change came as the Army fell well short of its recruiting goals last year. It needs to bring in 80,000 recruits this year and is pushing a package of higher enlistment bonuses and pay levels for certain jobs, as well as financial incentives for former soldiers to re-enlist.
The limit to enter the part-time Army Reserve was raised to 40 in March 2005 and the Army raised it to 40 for active duty in January. Then, both organizations raised it to 42 in June.
The Army has taken in 405 men and women in the active duty and 711 in the Reserves who were 35 or older as of Aug. 4, according to Douglas Smith, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command.
In interviews, most of the older soldiers training at Fort Jackson said they were fulfilling ambitions put aside years ago.
"It has always been a dream of mine to be in the military and now I am fulfilling that dream," Black said.
As she took a break from learning how to handle her M-16 rifle, the former corrections officer said her major challenge in the first three weeks of training was climbing and rappelling the 50-foot "Victory Tower."
Black is afraid of heights.
"I cried all the way up and all the way down, but my drill sergeant talked to me the whole time and got me through it," she said with a smile.
On the parade grounds here, about 5,000 family and friends gathered Friday to applaud the 1,800 soldiers who graduated from basic training.
Russell Dilling, 42, of San Antonio, and his 19-year-old son, Robert, had tears in their eyes as they hugged afterward. The younger Dilling graduated from basic training.
Russell Dilling is scheduled to finish Oct. 6 and is hoping his knees hold out. He wants to become a small arms repairman.
"When he graduates, I am sure I will be as proud of him as he is of me today," said Robert Dilling, who wants to train as a combat medic.
Russell Dilling said he got to Fort Jackson at 11 p.m. earlier this summer - one hour before his 42nd birthday and the Army's new deadline. "It's been tough physically, but my company has been pretty supportive," he said.
Dilling's drill sergeant, Steven Proffitt, called the father "a real leader. He shows these kids how to do it."
Pfc. Kimberly Brown, 37, couldn't resist cupping her 18-year-old son Derek Noe's face in jubilation after they'd both been released from graduation formation.
With five children to support, the work in the Army is welcome, she said. Her husband Robert, a retired Army first sergeant, supported her, she said.
Noe is returning to finish his senior year in high school in Boone, N.C., while his mother goes to Fort Eustis, Va., to enter helicopter mechanic training.
"They called me 'Mama's boy,' but I knew they were just messing with me," Noe said of others in his unit. "It never got to me. I'm proud of what she's doing."
Posted : 19/08/2006 7:58 am
If you want to dream, dream big, Haha. It used to be "Join the Army if you fail" -Zimmerman
The idea that a 40 year old mother's best opportunity is joining the army during wartime so she can have a chance in life is something for the Too Weird News site.
"Go, Nazis, Go!"
Posted : 19/08/2006 8:08 am
In 1970 the Army was 11% Congoid, and though I don't know the exact number for women, there were very few, and they were in medical and office headquarters period. The Army was FUBAR then, I am shocked this p.c. Army works at all now and supspect this is ZOG's Army against U.S.
In the 90's I meet a half dozen ex officer's who said they got out with 6 to 10 years because they could NOT discipline any one but White males, and that the p.c. and that the savage's were just too much take. One told me he woke up one morning told his wife, I am resigning today.
Thomas Chittum, stated in his book that he believed if the system broke up, it would start in the police force's and military first.
Have a happy open border day with Mexican border patrol agents. Wink.
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples
to lead our country to destruction.
-Charles A. Lindbergh
Posted : 19/08/2006 8:12 am
Wow, a 41 y.o. in the army...I'm 54, with fifteen years in reserves, and got out because I didn't feel like going to Bosnia or the other little wars we seem to be grwoing. In 1973, when I enlisted, the blacks were streaming in. My company in germany was mostly white, then when I got out in 76, it was over 50 percent black. It really changed. The army is, I believe 25 percent minority. it whitened up a bit in the 80's, but I think they're desparate ,now. i read of a pilot with one leg going back to Iraq, of a reservist in his 60's called back up... needless to say, I'm pissed when a lot of these morons on talk radio phone in and say the way to solve the immigration problem is to give Mexicans citizenship when they join the army. At this rate, we might win if we can get the high-tech weapons out of ZOG troops hands.
Posted : 19/08/2006 9:42 am
The army is, I believe 25 percent minority.
The army is well over half niggers and spics. The 25% "minority" is White males.
The idea that a 40 year old mother's best opportunity is joining the army during wartime so she can have a chance in life is something for the Too Weird News site.
The idea that a 40 year old mother can complete army basic training shows just how far the U.S. military has sunk.
Posted : 19/08/2006 11:50 am
Wow, a 41 y.o. in the army...
Pfc. Margie Black, 41, is fulfilling her lifelong dream of being in the army after the age limit was raised to 42.
-Jim
Carry a pocket knife ,wear steel toe boots and always make sure that you have the advantage or these savage simians will fuck you up! -- "White Minority" from VNNForum
“To destroy is always the first step in any creation.”
-E.E.Cummings
-New Paltz, NY Mayor Jason West 08/18/2004
Posted : 19/08/2006 11:59 am
Appropriate nametag.
Btw, those are the newest battle dress uniforms being issued. Not forrest green or sand brown but black, white, and grey. Winter climate fighting planned for the future?
Posted : 19/08/2006 12:07 pm
Holy Shit, I feel bad for any higher-ranked Army soldier who tries to tell this woman to do a fucking thing! I can see the attitude already!
Mudda-fucka, I gave birf to three keeedz fore you was even BORN! You ain't tellin' me to do a muddin'-fuddin' thang! I'ze did the Army a muddaa-fuddin' FAVOR by comin' up in here!
Posted : 19/08/2006 12:23 pm
While I can't see anything wrong with allowing mid thirties and early forties aged people in as support personell, I definitely see something wrong with bringing in boatloads of foreign citizens and "minorities". Didn't Rome fall after they brought in a whole boatload of foreigners into their army?
Posted : 19/08/2006 2:00 pm
Holy Shit, I feel bad for any higher-ranked Army soldier who tries to tell this woman to do a fucking thing! I can see the attitude already!
Mudda-fucka, I gave birf to three keeedz fore you was even BORN! You ain't tellin' me to do a muddin'-fuddin' thang! I'ze did the Army a muddaa-fuddin' FAVOR by comin' up in here!
And she'll be doing that chicken head-bobble thing during her rant.
Didn't Rome fall after they brought in a whole boatload of foreigners into their army?
Towards the end, virtually none of the Roman legion had ever actually been to Rome...and the vast majority couldn't even speak Latin.
Posted : 19/08/2006 2:19 pm
Niggers are useless in combat.They are unable to think under stress and quickly become indecisive and fearful;even after they have been trained well.
Todays soldier has to be more than a pack mule to survive and is required to be capable of planning ahead,which is not the venue of Niggers.
Obviously the Nigger, as well as the military, don't really intend to use or be used in real combat and are there for the short term profits.It's news like this that invigorates and exults our known and unknown enemies.Niggers are known world wide to literally fuck up anything they touch.Just imagine Niggers with rocket launchers,tanks,jets and missiles.
I guess now that liberals and left wingers have given every cooperate job and advancement to Niggers in civilian life;it's only appropriate that they now terminate our existence on the planet by turning over the military to Sambo and Beulah too.
Hell,niggers can't fight or plan an attack and have no capacity for military utilization in unknown locations.More to the point is that; for each Cowardly Nigger placed in the field, several White men or women will fall saving these ignorant creatures and possibly loosing their lives in such stupid endeavors.
Niggers were only ever useful in the military as cargo and garbage carriers; and never will advance above this position.
Still,Niggers best function for humanity would be as medical experimentation,aimed at their best purpose on the planet-as fertilizer.
Posted : 19/08/2006 3:01 pm
Give it some credit. She looks like a 30-year-old black male.
Posted : 19/08/2006 3:14 pm
At this rate, we might win if we can get the high-tech weapons out of ZOG troops hands.
You won’t have to. High-Tech weapons in the hands of low skill nigs=disaster.
Posted : 19/08/2006 3:27 pm
Is that some lolichan?
Posted : 19/08/2006 3:32 pm
The ink of the learned is as precious as the blood of the martyr. For one drop of ink may make millions think.
Posted : 19/08/2006 5:41 pm
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