Druids and Wiccans at the U.S. Air Force Academy

[Solus]

In the AF we call them showers!

What a life the AF has =)

Sometimes we had showers, some times it was cold water in our helmets that got our feet clean =)

[tombogan03884]

What a life the AF has =)

Sometimes we had showers, some times it was cold water in our helmets that got our feet clean =)

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[BAC]

What a life the AF has =)

Sometimes we had showers, some times it was cold water in our helmets that got our feet clean =)

That just caused some memories to come flooding back.   

[Fatman]

I won't knock what you said here. The majority of the AF is not in the Warrior career fields. We are mostly logistics support for the Warriors. If I could roll the clock back 20 years I'd of gone in to the Marines!

Yeah, but you get to sleep in barracks/semi-private rooms almost everywhere you go.  My brother was in the AF and was stationed in Iceland. Got to watch the poor grunts bivouac in the snow from the comfort of his room - where he had to crack the window because it was too hot.

[GUNS-R-US]

What a life the AF has =)

Sometimes we had showers, some times it was cold water in our helmets that got our feet clean =)

Yeah, but you get to sleep in barracks/semi-private rooms almost everywhere you go.  My brother was in the AF and was stationed in Iceland. Got to watch the poor grunts bivouac in the snow from the comfort of his room - where he had to crack the window because it was too hot.

Ya know their is a test to get in the military. The AF is just a little pickier about your score than the others.  

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[tombogan03884]

 Just remember this, The Air Force GOES to Iceland, (had an Uncle stationed there in the early 50's ).
Except for the Embassy personnel the Marines left in 1941 and haven't been back since  
(No Swamps, they don't send Marines places that don't have swamps, that's why they were operating along the Euphrates in Iraq, that's where the mud was )  

[Fatman]

Ya know their is a test to get in the military. The AF is just a little pickier about your score than the others.  

So based on this and Tom's observation about swamps, I'm guessing the pivotal question on the ap tests to separate Marine from AF candidates is:

Do you prefer:

A) Bass fishing
b) Ice fishing
c) Fly fishing
d) Fishing for the remote in your climate-controlled room while the guys that answered any of the above are stationed in the swamp/snow/mud/searing heat/all of the previous at once outside your window.

[callithump]

Pick a flavor at the USAFA. Maybe the peyote eating Sun Dancers will make it over the threshold next.
Our Founders refered to religion in the Army as "denominations of religion" and not the ranks of witchcraft.
"Sir Richard Sutton read a copy of a letter relative to the government of America from a [Crown-appointed] governor in America to the Board of Trade [in Great Britain] showing that. . . . If you ask an American, “Who is his master?” He will tell you he has none – nor any governor but Jesus Christ." This is the heritage of America and making room for Earth-lovers is I think unfortunate. I appreciate their need for fellowship with the like-minded, have at it but it's a mistake to give them a place at the table. Somewhere someone in an Academy office lacked the Giulianis to say "No". You don't give your kids everything they want.... dittos here.

[jaybet]

Yeah, but don't try to put up a nativity scene around Christmas.

[Teresa Heilevang]

Soooo... back to the topic.............

Dollars to donuts, though, these modern types are going to be mostly a bunch of pacifist queers, as you so quaintly put it!   

I have to poke my head in here and say something.....
Uhhmmm~~~ Pacifist queers is a pretty strong term...
Do you actually KNOW anything about the Wiccan and Druid way of worship? Or are you just flipping something out there from the fear of the part of the unknown that you don't know... I'm just curious as to what you actually personally KNOW about this way of belief..

Do you understand  that most people who are practitioners of nature-centered spirituality are usually a mix of several types of spiritual beliefs? And you would be very very surprised if you knew the number of "Us" who are not pacifist queers..
((You have a good evening))