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Mr. Beeto Cub Reporter Offline Long Live the Movieverse Posts: 198 Location: Warren, Michigan, USA Joined: Aug 10^th, 2008	FDK - Family Reunion 41 Feb 26^th, 2009 at 10:31am
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Miss Lois YaBB Moderator Offline I Love Superman Posts: 349 Location: Earth Joined: Aug 7^th, 2008	Re: FDK - Family Reunion 41 Reply #1 - Feb 26^th, 2009 at 4:08pm
	Thank you for the compliment. I've never liked it when military personnel (or police for that matter) are portrayed as brutes or dolts. The vast majority of our armed services are well-intentioned and intelligent - and the people selected for special training or promotion to high rank are very well trained, well educated and dedicated to their mission - protecting this country and its people. The bad apples are almost exclusively found in fiction. I had the privilege of knowing some Navy aviators way back when and they were some of the brightest and sweetest people you would ever want to meet. Climbing off soapbox now.

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Mr. Beeto Cub Reporter Offline Long Live the Movieverse Posts: 198 Location: Warren, Michigan, USA Joined: Aug 10^th, 2008	Re: FDK - Family Reunion 41 Reply #2 - Feb 26^th, 2009 at 4:29pm
	Miss Lois wrote on Feb 26^th, 2009 at 4:08pm: I've never liked it when military personnel (or police for that matter) are portrayed as brutes or dolts. The vast majority of our armed services are well-intentioned and intelligent - and the people selected for special training or promotion to high rank are very well trained, well educated and dedicated to their mission - protecting this country and its people. The bad apples are almost exclusively found in fiction. As someone who once called a U.S. Air Force Base home, I'd have to agree with that. The military friends I knew there were great, and never hesitated to help out anyone who needed it.


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Brin_Londo5 Cub Reporter Offline I Love Superman Posts: 178 Location: Missouri Joined: Oct 8^th, 2008	Re: FDK - Family Reunion 41 Reply #3 - Feb 27^th, 2009 at 9:01am
	Half of my family are either ex-military or bikers. Neither group are the dolts most portray them to be. The "bad apples", I've found, are more often in the Intelligence community than the Armed Forces, at least in my personal experience.


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