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LOL, welcome to the family of common sense! HAHAHA, I love that one. Years ago my mother sold a treadmill my father had when he was still alive to a rancher. She asked me to help him take it out and load it on his pickup. We stood there talking when finished and I told him how I used to drive my Marines up a wall teaching them about farming and ranching during our down time. The rancher said, funny you'd say that, I just hired an ex-Marine a few months ago. I chuckled and said "that'd probably be one of my boys, he's done his duty for God and country, its now time for him to get his start in the civilian world and God knows the best place to send him is to the farmer/rancher. Why? Because you guys have strong work ethics, strong mechanical skills, and common sense. Those are the 3 basic things he must learn to help him get his start working in the civilian world. Now if he eventually begins to have poor work performance, I suggest you don't yell at him because you will only bring hell against yourself. I learned that as a Marine, we did a lot of yelling and it brought hell against us. So I suggest you just tell him it seems things aren't working out between us and I'll have to let you go, hope you find something better." What I didn't go into is that when his performance drops, it means its time for him to move on, God has something different for him to do so he learns more. That process can keep going until he finally reaches the point where God says you have learned what I wanted you to learn, this is where I want you to prosper in life. In short, each job is a stepping stone towards where God wants him to prosper. And ladies, remember, I'm a male, so I tend to speak in the male gender. However, I realize that women also serve in the military and so when I say he, that includes women, I just don't say he or she each time. Guess I'm just to lazy to type it out. But the same goes for the women who have served, only God knows best where to send them, I'm not a woman that I'd understand what He understands. He may send them somewhere else to get the same basic training. And remember, I spent my time working with the hard core inner city kids during my time in the Marines, so that's who I'm referring to because they didn't have a proper upbringing. The Marines who had a good upbringing and already have those 3 basic skills can go to better things when they get out.

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By 1990 I would tell Marines "when I first joined post Vietnam war, the Staff NCO's had a saying, its the 90% who are carrying the 10% (troublemakers). Today (1990) its the 10% who are carrying the 90% (trouble makers)." Because of the relentless efforts of Act for America and other Judeo/Christian organizations fighting the good fight to try and turn this nation back around, we are reaching the point its the 80% who are carrying the 20% (troublemakers. Keep the good work up and we shall prevail for with God all things are possible.

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