If The Tsa Were Real
<div class="IPBDescription">Would you join?</div> So anyways. If the TSA were real (remember the military recruiters at your school) would you join?
I mean they would probably have, a cool website, scholarship money for college lol etc.
Cool TV commericals ==> Cool footage of decked out Frontiersman in Jet packs and HMGS zipping around.
Then it would say.
You could earn up to 50,000 Credits for your college education! Come talk with your local recruiter today!
Trans System Authority, Standiing on the edge of the unknown, Defending Humanity and what ever would threaten it, or however it goes.
People at your old high school would have TSA Frontiersman recruiters handing out free pens and key chains, telling nice storys about their first phase gate jump etc.
So anyways,would you join?
I mean has anyone here ever survied an entire game with out dying once? Or getting bit down to 48 hp which is = to getting a leg or arm bitten off? Even in non pub servers.
I dunno. The TSA sounds like they they have the same problem as the StarShip Troopers Mobile Infantry.
They are designed to fight against humans. Not swarms of fast moving aliens. Same goes for the marines in ALIENS.
Making them somewhat "expendable". Perhaps a little to expendable for me. "When one dies another phases in from the orbiting troop ship to take his place."
They must have huge numbers of combat casualties that they try to keep out of site lol.
I mean they would probably have, a cool website, scholarship money for college lol etc.
Cool TV commericals ==> Cool footage of decked out Frontiersman in Jet packs and HMGS zipping around.
Then it would say.
You could earn up to 50,000 Credits for your college education! Come talk with your local recruiter today!
Trans System Authority, Standiing on the edge of the unknown, Defending Humanity and what ever would threaten it, or however it goes.
People at your old high school would have TSA Frontiersman recruiters handing out free pens and key chains, telling nice storys about their first phase gate jump etc.
So anyways,would you join?
I mean has anyone here ever survied an entire game with out dying once? Or getting bit down to 48 hp which is = to getting a leg or arm bitten off? Even in non pub servers.
I dunno. The TSA sounds like they they have the same problem as the StarShip Troopers Mobile Infantry.
They are designed to fight against humans. Not swarms of fast moving aliens. Same goes for the marines in ALIENS.
Making them somewhat "expendable". Perhaps a little to expendable for me. "When one dies another phases in from the orbiting troop ship to take his place."
They must have huge numbers of combat casualties that they try to keep out of site lol.
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<b>At length:</b> Why on earth would i be convinced to go and kill people. All the armed forces are just hired thugs. People employed to go kill on order. To quote Bill Hicks "If we ever need you to go bomb the **** out of a nation of little brown people, we'll call on you". If, in England, they create some sort of mandatory millitary service i'm going to parade myself around in hotpants with a handlebar 'tasche and see if they'll take me on then.
In conclusion, no matter how cool it sounds, being a hired killer is +NOT+ cool. Guns are +NOT+ cool. Murdering people because some beurocrat tells you to is +NOT COOL+.
All the armed forces are just hired thugs. People employed to go kill on order. To quote Bill Hicks "If we ever need you to go bomb the **** out of a nation of little brown people, we'll call on you".
In conclusion, no matter how cool it sounds, being a hired killer is +NOT+ cool. Guns are +NOT+ cool. Murdering people because some beurocrat tells you to is +NOT COOL+. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Whoa buddy, let not generalise every soldier in the world just b/c they are in a nations military.
Mons E was a soldier as are many of the people in this forum.
If you are in an armed conflict you fight for your friends next to you when the Sh_t hits the fan not b/c you happen to believe in what ever opinion your nations leader does. The people you are engaging are also soldiers, people trying to kill you. Its them or you. The people in that tank that you engage have families as well, however they have the same goal when they see you. To kill you. They took the same risks and responsibilites as you did when you enlist.
It sounds like you are basing your very emotional opinion based on the very recent happenings of the world.
Let it be known that a great deal of the "hired thugs of the miltary" are fathers, mothers, nurses, doctors, your neighbor, (The navies Seabees do humanitarian aid missions for developing countries) Mechanics lawyers, priests, rabbis, other religous officals etc. I dont know of any solder, current or Ex who joined up just so they can go kill people. maybe to get $$ for college, to get work expirience, whatever, but not to simply kill people. Those people woudnt even make it past the psych tests they give you upon trying to join.
Take Hitler, for example (a pretty extreme example), I'm positive that not every single Nazi soldier wanted to persecute and murder the jews, but they're not going to turn their back on their country. And moreso, their orders.
It deeply saddens me that the world's nations feel the need to have armies. I admit they're necissary to stop threats upon themselves. But travelling across half the globe to kill innocent people, and their own troops?
But one criticism, if the screening proceedure is so rigorous, how come every single squaddie i've ever had the misfortune to meet has been an arrogant, stuck up, prejudice pile of excrement?
It's much too late then. Your conscious decision happens much earlier. When you sign up, you need to make sure that the goals of the people who will command you coincide with your own. You don't lose personal responsibility for your actions just because you follow orders.
That said, I see no logic in engaging creatures like the Kharaa in CQB. I wouldn't sign up for such a stupid operation. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>Disclaimer: The TSA does by no means guarantee that your face will be eaten within 24 hours of signing up. Unless rations are out.</span>
im a great believer in service... all thoguht i do see esuna points... it doesnt matter he is a web diesgner he is employed to make websites i would be a soldier employed to do what i do...
and FYI: being a soldier ISNT about killing. it is about making a difference.
<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>Disclaimer: The TSA does by no means guarantee that your face will be eaten within 24 hours of signing up. Unless rations are out.</span> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
and LOL
See Starship Troopers. Give up your dream.
You considering plastic surgery or what?
See Starship Troopers. Give up your dream. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
ahh, but they had aliens that could shoot plasma balls outta their ****. the Kharra's most powerful (documented i might add) form is a large rhino, not a major threat to star ships <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
You considering plastic surgery or what? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe I could fool the hive into thinking I was a fade by getting some surgery, and a transmitter of some sort to put me on it's sight.
Documented. You said it yourself.
Would I join TSA if we would now live in Natural Selections world? No way. I don't have problems with bullets and human enemies but the thought of being ripped a part by Skulk or being devoured alive by an Onos? Hell no. Though if Kharaa threat would be huge enough there would be prolly an international draft.
cos the military wouldnt send you in with only 120 rounds and a knife.
actually knowing the british army... they just may do..
actually knowing the british army... they just may do.. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
ROFL.
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Oh yeah. *travels to US and joins TSA*
"I'm doing my part!"
i was soooo going to do that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
They kept mentioning TSA after 9/11, i had a chuckle about it almost every day
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LOL, although until the onos develops a plasma ray that shoots out of its arse hes ok, ...
for now.
Plus they just sick you in a tub of goo and rebuild you anyway \o/
Sure id join what the hell...
Gimme the biggest godamn gun EVAR!!
Just as long as I don't have to face any Scorpians that hover without flapping. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->