Sounds like the Foreign Legion but much more tblg friendly.
And I do mean all 4 letters- they allow trans folks to serve openly.

Hows that taste, haters ?

Aren't there more things in Australia that want to kill humans than in all the sandy, unpaved countries the US keeps invading? I've seen spiders and plants from there that scare me more than any native freedom fighters we are "liberating" the shiat out of.

Too bad it's not all shrimps and barbies.

Australia is about to go to war with southeast Asia, so it's not going to be just a vacation on the beach.

You know who else invited foreigners to serve with Austrians?

croesius: Aren't there more things in Australia that want to kill humans than in all the sandy, unpaved countries the US keeps invading? I've seen spiders and plants from there that scare me more than any native freedom fighters we are "liberating" the shiat out of.

And yet according to TFA's comments, the truly dangerous thing is the fluoridation and vaccination in Australia, not the wildlife. Sounds like Jenny McCarthy visited Australia in the past.

ArkAngel: That's not a gun.

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This is a gun

Thought that was a rifle.

AverageAmericanGuy: Too bad it's not all shrimps and barbies.

Australia is about to go to war with southeast Asia, so it's not going to be just a vacation on the beach.

SE Asia? WTF are you talking about?

Weeners:

Professional Illnesses of ADF Posted at 12:21 PM Today

In my opinion, they want overseas people for another reason. Many of the employees they currently have are affected by the side effects of fluoridation and unsafe vaccines with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer, thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency.



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(Right here ↑↑↑)Just think how many gay people would have been flocking to Australia if this had happened a year or two ago.
/nttawwt

AeAe: AverageAmericanGuy: Too bad it's not all shrimps and barbies.

Australia is about to go to war with southeast Asia, so it's not going to be just a vacation on the beach.

SE Asia? WTF are you talking about?

Vietnam 2: Electric Boogaloo

alienated: Sounds like the Foreign Legion but much more tblg friendly.
And I do mean all 4 letters- they allow trans folks to serve openly.

Hows that taste, haters ?

I love the Weeners and how he seems compassionate and then drops "Psycho" with an overall tone of paranoia.

In my opinion, they want overseas people for another reason. Many of the employees they currently have are affected by the side effects of fluoridation and unsafe vaccines with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer, thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency.

Is it the same guy from San Bernardino.

I'd gladly serve with the Aussies, they are one of the few ISAF partners who are worth their weight in Afghanistan. The wife says no though. (Also, they have the best hats)

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MajorityWhip: I love the Weeners and how he seems compassionate and then drops "Psycho" with an overall tone of paranoia.

In my opinion, they want overseas people for another reason. Many of the employees they currently have are affected by the side effects of fluoridation and unsafe vaccines with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer, thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency.

Sounds like the typical leftist nutjob. The liberal mental disorder has spread world wide, providing hours of hilarities to web forums and starbucks shops in every country on the globe.

ArkAngel: That's not a gun.

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This is a gun

That's a really nice monopod.

QBalugaJoe: Is it the same guy from San Bernardino.

You mean Bobby? I think he is still living in a Winnebago on Mullholland.

Rule 1: No pooftahs.

alienated: Sounds like the Foreign Legion


I was thinking the same thing. I've always thought that providing a guaranteed route to citizenship through military service (with the requirement that the recruit learn English fluently and perhaps some contingency to take advantage of the GI bill afterwards to gain worthwhile job skills) would be a great solution for the immigration concerns in the US.

FunkOut: ChuDogg: MajorityWhip: I love the Weeners and how he seems compassionate and then drops "Psycho" with an overall tone of paranoia.

In my opinion, they want overseas people for another reason. Many of the employees they currently have are affected by the side effects of fluoridation and unsafe vaccines with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer, thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency.

Sounds like the typical leftist nutjob. The liberal mental disorder has spread world wide, providing hours of hilarities to web forums and starbucks shops in every country on the globe.

Leftist? Dude, liberals seem to like vaccines and science and shiat.

I just assume he was doing ad libs.

example: Damn Mormons putting fluoride in the Austria's drinking water

/it is fun and easy

FunkOut: ChuDogg: MajorityWhip: I love the Weeners and how he seems compassionate and then drops "Psycho" with an overall tone of paranoia.

In my opinion, they want overseas people for another reason. Many of the employees they currently have are affected by the side effects of fluoridation and unsafe vaccines with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer, thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency.

Sounds like the typical leftist nutjob. The liberal mental disorder has spread world wide, providing hours of hilarities to web forums and starbucks shops in every country on the globe.

Leftist? Dude, liberals seem to like vaccines and science and shiat.

You're kidding, right? Lately right-wing idiots are taking up the cause like champs (vector of infection: homeschoolers) but anti-vax absolutely started with left-wing idiots. cf Robert Kennedy's big article in Rolling Stone.

AverageAmericanGuy:
Australia is about to go to war with southeast Asia, so it's not going to be just a vacation on the beach.

Dude, that was a movie: Tomorrow When The War Began.

In my opinion, they want overseas people for another reason. Many of the employees they currently have are affected by the side effects of fluoridation and unsafe vaccines with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer, thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency.


The above is the Weeners below TFA.

Let's take it apart, shall we?

In my opinion

So, the commenter subconsciously recognizes the crazy about to spew forth is not fact. That's good.

Many of the employees

Employees? Look, even the good ol' U.S. of A. still at least gives lip service to the idea that our military are heroic volunteers, and that what they do goes above and beyond doing a job to get paid.

they currently have

You don't "have" employees. You "have" a dozen eggs in your refrigerator. You "have" a sense of humor. Maybe if it's a few centuries ago, you "have" some slaves.

are affected by the side effects of fluoridation

Really? What side effects? I read Fark, for chrissake, so I know all about all the psychotic fringe hypotheses about what's killing us or making our children mutate, but I've never heard anything about fluorine in the tapwater doing anything but staving off tooth decay. What the fark?

and unsafe vaccines

Christ on a cracker. My parents' generation all have scars the size of quarter-dollar coins on their right upper arms. They got them when they were part of a mass vaccination project. An injection gun delivered a couple dozen vaccines all in one big dose. It hit them with a bunch of needles all at once, and the conditions weren't necessarily the most sanitary. They all got some ugly arm-scars for taking the vaccinations, but they also didn't get smallpox or polio or any of a dozen other horrible diseases.

If there were going to be a huge population-decimating side effect from vaccines, it would have happened decades ago, back when medical science was less advanced and society was in general still pretty goddamn afraid of contracting polio -- in which case one would rather have ended up in a grave rather than permanently living in a breathing apparatus. So, fark you.

with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed

Yeah, blame the vaccines. Easier to think that old medicine rather than modern living is the culprit. farkwit.

and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer

Why lump those together? One of them is a symptom of a hypoactive thyroid gland and the other is a problem of genetics. And, again, if this were linked to vaccinations, then we would be dealing with a generation of older folk who are all either bedridden or dead from cancers in stead of wondering how we're going to pay for their care when old age instead of disease finally gets its grip on them.

thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency


Fluoridation and vaccination happen "overseas", no matter which ocean you live near.

Retard.

ChuDogg: MajorityWhip: I love the Weeners and how he seems compassionate and then drops "Psycho" with an overall tone of paranoia.

In my opinion, they want overseas people for another reason. Many of the employees they currently have are affected by the side effects of fluoridation and unsafe vaccines with the outcome that 25%-35% of them are psychos or depressed and 25% have chroric fatigue or cancer, thus, they periodically need new blood from overseas to temporarily increase their cost-efficiency.

Sounds like the typical leftist right wing nutjob. The liberal Fundie mental disorder has spread world wide, providing hours of hilarities to web forums and starbucks shops in every country on the globe.

Saws, they can cut both ways . . .

What the hell do they need a military for? Just round up the local wildlife and send them at the enemy. Anyone who tried to invade would be annihilated and devoured in two days' time.

But what if I don't speak the language, I mean, crikey!

Benevolent Misanthrope: I thought we already had that in the US. Am I wrong?

It's a shades of grey thing. apparently if you have a green card, you can enlist, then your service gives you brownie points or something towards naturalization/citizenship

Benevolent Misanthrope:

I thought we already had that in the US. Am I wrong?

I did a little bit of googling, we actually do have more of a program than I thought we did. From what I can tell you have to be a legal resident with a green card to apply though. It would be nice to open it up as a route to amnesty for current illegals and as a direct path to citzenship for those considering immigrating through unofficial means.

BigNumber12: Having an army filled with foreigners didn't work well for Rome...

there were a lot of things that didn't work well for rome. like pollution, and a representative government that fell into ineffectual deadlock then gave way to a executive autocracy.

If you have an unconditional green card, you are basically guaranteed citizenship at some point. Just a waiting game. If you want it.

Fast track citizenship for green card residents doesn't really change the game much.

My landlady is a green card resident for at least 30 years. She sucks on the welfare teat as much as any US citizen can, and doesn't have to vote or do jury duty. Asking her to apply for citizenship would be wasting her money right now.

Maybe for illegals, but right now with the wars winding down, and barring any new wars, the armed forces have been actively pushing people out. Cutting out the excess meat from the last decade.

Hey, while it doesn't state it in tfa, you are also welcome to jump ship or "re-up in a different direction" if you are/were in an intelligence slot. Especially in a field position.

oh, and they're also big on getting SF, SEALS, FR etc, even if you're not 'field ready' anymore with that wonky knee.

gund: If you have an unconditional green card, you are basically guaranteed citizenship at some point. Just a waiting game. If you want it.

Fast track citizenship for green card residents doesn't really change the game much.

My landlady is a green card resident for at least 30 years. She sucks on the welfare teat as much as any US citizen can, and doesn't have to vote or do jury duty. Asking her to apply for citizenship would be wasting her money right now.

Maybe for illegals, but right now with the wars winding down, and barring any new wars, the armed forces have been actively pushing people out. Cutting out the excess meat from the last decade.

Since Rome was brought up earlier in the thread, one of the things the Romans did right was make use of their military for public works and engineering projects when they weren't needed for war.

The US has plenty of infrastructure in need of updating but many states are cash strapped and can't afford it. Revitalize the Army Corp of Engineers by funneling recruits into it and putting them to work upgrading our bridges, railroads and highways as well as undertaking environmental cleanup projects while we are at peace. It's a win for everyone, the Army gets to maintain a standing force in case they are ever needed, infrastructure projects can be completed at a much smaller cost than hiring profit-driven private contractors, and immigrants who would otherwise end up picking produce for near slave wages as well as current citizens without money for traditional schooling will get viable job skills that can serve them after their military obligation is finished.

As someone who couldn't get any of the roles I wanted in the ADF because of "CP3" colour blindness which is acceptable for all those roles in places like the UK, France and I think the USA, I find this funny. I scored high enough on their IQ-test like thing, even without a proper education in math (half the symbols they used in the questions didn't mean a thing to me), that I had access to pretty much any job. Then they found out about that and binned all but things like band and cooking.

/I think I'd prefer the travel I've done since then to being in the army anyway.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the "chroric fatigue" comment. Also, the "new blood from overseas" bit kind of made me picture Dracula commenting on the exotic vintage served with dinner.

alienated: Sounds like the Foreign Legion....

I suspect the major difference is that the Aussies are looking to recruit trained professional soldiers whereas the Froggy Legion has a long tradition of accepting even the most degenerate scum the human race has to offer.



Murderers, thieves, robbers, rapists, livestock molesters, none of these or a plethora of other scummy types are discriminated against by the French Foreign Legion, as long as they can withstand the rigors of training and follow orders no matter how onerous they are welcome.

Helen_Arigby: Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the "chroric fatigue" comment. Also, the "new blood from overseas" bit kind of made me picture Dracula commenting on the exotic vintage served with dinner.

And that made me picture a line of beautiful young women and handsome young men from different races and nationalities lined up next to his table.

houginator: they are one of the few ISAF partners who are worth their weight in Afghanistan

Damn, I was unaware Afghanistan was someone you could measure against. Your comment is worth its weight in Afghanistan though!

Thinking about it a bit, programs could easily be expanded beyond the Corps of Engineers.

The VA hospital system is overburdened, many lower and mid-income people are without healthcare, and the current hospital system contributes to outrageous costs for those who can afford health insurance.

Offer free medical school in exchange for serving for a set number of years in an expanded VA hospital system that won't just better serve our current veterans but also anyone in the community who can't afford traditional doctors free of charge. Set wages for participants in the program well below traditional hospital levels to keep costs down. With the opportunity to get the medical degree without incurring hundreds of thousands in debt I imagine that there would be no shortage of those willing to still take advantage even if it meant earning half of what private hospitals pay during the term of commitment.

Similar programs could be started for IT related fields, or just about any other industry. The military is in a unique position in that almost any skill can be useful, so why not take advantage of that by training people in those skills and then using their contracted affordable labor to better the country as a whole.