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I just wanted to say how much I love this site. It has been such a neat experience to watch it grow and to see the photos. Being an Army vet I find it interesting to look into the lives of serves members in other branches.

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Criss-crossing America to uncover some of the trend lines in war-fighting technology, Kaj Larsen of Vanguard investigates the issue of remote control warfare.

There are many military tattoos sites out there on the Internet, but I wonder what the stories are of people who read this site. Did you get a tattoo in the army? Are tattoos allowed in the US Army? There are actually quite a few questions when it comes to Army tattoos and military tattoos in general.