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| Politics: Over Seas PLEASE! |
Posted by
MorteAscendo on Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 04:22 AM PST
If you have ever thought to yourself “Man, I fucking hate where I live”, think again. Try being a Military member over seas. All I see when I go to base to base are these old Okinawens (Japanese) holding up signs saying, “Go home, we want a peacefully country”. I’m thinking to myself, “I WANT TO GO HOME!”
For example:
On July 6th at 0600 (6am for you non military people) I was driving to work with my girlfriend. Driving along just thinking about how tired I am. Then all of a sudden. BAMMM!! I get rear-ended. So thinking I go into a regular accident I start to pull over and then I get again and then again.
So I freak out and high tail it to the far right lane and punch it. Mind you I drive a 350hp Nissan Skyline GTS-t. But the traffic starts to slow and then coming like a bat outta hell, SLAM!! The motherfucker hits me again…and so this is going on for about 3 minutes.
So the last major hit, he slams my car into the median in the center of the road and my car stops smashed. But this little fucker has his car floored, still trying to push my car. I put the car in park, pull the E-Brake and get out. I start yelling, totally pissed off and scared out of my head. This Japanese guy, turned out to be 40 years old, just staring at my car still flooring his little busted up piece of shit.
So I get closer and his puts his car in reverse and I freak like he is going to hit my car or me! I get back into my car and take the fuck off, and weave through traffic to get to the Hospital where I work.
I get there and tell my Directorate Commander what happened, I call the military police and the fucker I talk to (a marine mind you) tells me there is nothing he can do cause it happened off base, so he give me the JPs number (Japanese police).
Later I go to the JP’s office and waste 3 hours of my day filling my statement, taking pictures of my car and where it all happened. They where really good and took a lot of pictures, and later that night I got a call and it was the JP’s. They had arrested the guy (I had his license plate number, forgot to mention) 30 minutes prior to calling me. The guy supposedly was mentally insane and driving a car. Please explain that one to me.
I stated another report that was not translated into Japanese, and I’m sitting there wondering how many things they changed.
During all this the JP tells me that they will contact my insurance company and the crazy guys, so I said “OK”, thinking that they would do there job since they have been so awesome earlier in the day. I was wrong.
Ok.. well there is more but I'm going to shorten it now.
Bottom line, they fucked me because I am an American and they can do that. The JAGs couldn’t do anything and neither could PMO (MP’s). So I had to fix my car out-of-pocket 1,200 dollars. It may not sound like a lot to some of you, but for an Enlisted E-3…that is a shit load. But here is the kicker.
If I were to do that to a Japanese guy, it would have been turned into an international incident. I would have gone to the Brig; I would have been Court-Marshaled after Captain’s Mast. I would have been fucked.
BUT WHEN A GOD DAMN LOCAL DOES IT TO AN AMERICAN, IT’S OK!!!!!!
So next time your bitchen' about how much you hate your town or your country, Enlist and to a foreign country that the US used to occupy.
-Morte
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Re: Over Seas PLEASE!
by Alugarde (SoulCiphyr@aol.com)
on Sep 15, 2002 - 08:28 AM
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Hook a potato gun to the back of your car and find a way to get a button for it within arms reach when youre driving. It won't cause any damage to the car (its just messy and will piss them off), so you cant get in trouble for it.
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Re: Over Seas PLEASE!
by Merry_Widow on Sep 15, 2002 - 11:33 AM
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Bend over Morte, I'm about to kiss your ass...
I love living in America. Granted, it has it's problems, but I enjoy being able to do what I want, say what I want, wear, worship, and sleep with whatever I want. And none of that would be possible without the people who are willing to enlist and deal with jerks overseas.
That, and I have an extreme weak spot for guys in navy uniform.
My civilian self salutes you. Now go shoot someone.
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Re: Over Seas PLEASE!
by IamSquid (AAA@sockmonkeys.net)
on Sep 15, 2002 - 12:45 PM
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I know 2 people who were Marines stationed in Okinawa durring Vietnam and the Gulf. The one in the Gulf said he would have prefered being in combat than having to deal with the Okinawans and was overjoyed when he heard they were teaching Aikido to replace LINE for the troops in Okinawa. Personally I just see history repeating itself and hope yoo get transferred somewhere serene like Guantanamo (although I suppose this isn't the greatest time to be there). Lots of luck, brother.
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- CUBA!!! by MorteAscendo on Sep 15, 2002 - 03:44 PM
Re: Over Seas PLEASE!
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Sep 15, 2002 - 10:39 PM
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goddamned morte, that is some FUCKED UP SHIT.
I don't envy your position at all.
I can't believe they didn't do anything about that!
If they KNEW he was mentally insane what the fuck was he doing with a liscence?! Hell HERE they look for any reason to take it away if you're a danger on the road.
I'm happy where I am thank you very much.
And where I work, there are THREE military bases within 20 min driving range and I hear nothing but the lamentations of the enlisted whilst they blow their paychecks *snicker*
There isn't enough money in the world to make me join the army....unless it was a matter of my freedom.
Best of luck. Get out of there as soon as you can!
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From the other side of the sea
by Arthegarn on Sep 16, 2002 - 04:10 AM
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Sorry to hear about your car, Morte. I understand your situation very well.
I have lived what you describe from the other side. I live in a town near Madrid, Torrejón de Ardoz, which is known by its airbase. It holds the largest landing stripe in Europe, actually being one of NASA’s alternate landing sites for the shuttle in case anything goes wrong. Well, that base was an U.S. base since 1954. When Spain joined NATO in 1988 it became NATO but was run by the U.S. military until 1995, I believe, when it was definitely transferred to Spanish hands.
After Franco’s death in 1975 Torrejón became a focal point for anti-American hatred. Each year we would have a huge demonstration that would walk some 20 kilometres from Madrid to Torrejón with the “Yankee Go Home” thing. The largest one was 400,000 people (as an ironic side note, these demonstrations were orchestrated by the Communist and Socialist parties and general co-ordination was handed to a single man, some Socialist named Javier Solana you might have heard of...)
What Morte describes is very accurate. The US Military had an iron grip over their men. Most of them lived inside the base where huge quantities of money were spent so they felt like home. Even their very bread and water was shipped from the States. Their Coca-Cola was sent from the States. They even shipped them California wine in the land of Rioja and Ribera., not to mention the Sherry! My, they would have shipped them bulls if they had wanted to learn bullfighting!
Some of them lived outside the base, under very strict norms of conduct. Whenever there was a problem with an American MPs appeared immediately out of nowhere. If an American was arrested for whatever reasons MPs and a JAG officer would instantly materialise there, pay whatever was to be paid and get the poor fellow to the base, never to be heard from again. I never heard an American’s neighbour complain about his neighbour more than once. They had a tendency to drink too much, but that’s understandable if you consider how much we drink down here compared to what I have heard of, and how cheap alcohol is. (I drink Red Bull with Jack Daniel’s for instance, meaning five fingers of whiskey per drink, and costing me 6 €. A beer is maybe 2.50 €). They almost never got into fights.
Some locals abused that and provoked Americans knowing they would get into serious trouble if they responded. But mostly Torrejón’s relationship with them was a very good (and highly profitable) one. The real problems came from people who were not used to dealing with Americans, and from left-wing parties of course. And these people were also dealt with by the Spanish authorities, just as anyone would. But the fact is the US military was extremely strict with their own, in comparison. It’s as you said. it’s not that if a local hit an American it would be OK, but if a local hit an American he would get fined and if an American hit a local he would just disappear...
What are you doing in Okinawa, anyway? Ask for a transfer to the beautiful Mediterranean! NATO has several bases in Europe with U.S. personnel, including Moron and Rota in Spain (Rota is also a touristic resort of some importance).
Plus I could introduce to some hot Spanish gothbabes...
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