Pissed out of my gourd on free red wine,
I found myself stuck in conversation with a colleague's other half, being regaled by tales of life in the forces, and how great it was that he was getting paid to travel abroad to shoot "rag heads".
He really enjoyed killing "rag heads", and told me that he liked it best when they got up close, as it meant that he could stab them. He went on like this for quite some time - pretty sure it was mostly bullshit, but there was a lot of free red wine, so I let him carry on, whilst I snuck the occasional glance at another colleague's impressive bust, and got more and more drunk.
Not a bad evening, but the hotel was shit.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 21:14, 3 replies)

I once talked to a infantryman who extolled the plan of killing all Muslims.
Surely, there should be psychological tests to weed these people out during the recruitment process.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 19 Dec 2014, 23:52, closed)

Shipping all the loonies overseas
stops them causing trouble at home, with the added benefit that the Americans might accidentally kill them.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sat 20 Dec 2014, 8:57, closed)

Quote I once heard
.. for context, this was about the time of the invasion of Iraq, when feelings were running high

"The difference between a soldier and a murderer, is that the murderer has a motive"

I think the quality of soldiers we get is directly proportional to the actual threat faced by the country at the time.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Sat 20 Dec 2014, 17:17, closed)