[AGL] looking for a MS Word guru

[Charles Loving]

I don't know. I never paid any attention to Manning. I went to Nam twice.
Got a purple heart and then went to Zaire with the French as a laison
officer for the Americans. I spoke French and Portuguese so I fit in pretty
well. I don't recall PTSD but I had a few nightmares. We did some pretty
intersting things in Angola and Katanga. We were defending the money. Gulf
Oile at the time and a few Mining companies.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:31 AM Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I suppose you missed the film clips exposed by Chelsea Manning. Some
> "soldiers" can't hack it and come back with PTSD. Many of them end up as
> suicides. Humans who are civilized were not bred to kill other humans. When
> forced to do so some of them are unable to do it coldly.
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:49 AM Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What you say rings true. There are graduates from Leakey and Nueches
>> Canyon High School that can't pass the Army entrance exam. Some that do are
>> too obese and get rejected on that basis. I actually know of one graduate
>> who tried three times to pass the test. She was too dumb or just never
>> learned a thing in school. I know for a fact that she nevwer read  a book
>> of anykind.
>>
>> Americans don't want mercenaries to defend them. People like Mike Hoar in
>> South Africa who had a group of real thugs under his command. Commando 5.
>> They succeded in pacifying Katanga Province.  Ex Nazi stormtroppers who
>> wore their Whermacht medals.
>>
>>  I read a very interesting article about the French Foreign Legion. The
>> Legion  didn't much care about the history of their recruits. After the men
>> went through basic training they were pretty much turned into tough killing
>>  machines that did what they were told. Hazing was part of the process and
>> the sargeants and officers were at times sadistic. The Hollywood versions
>> make the soldiers look like glorified heroic troops.
>>
>> I had the occasion to party with them in El Paso. The legion sent troops
>> to train at Fort Bliss. My mother liked to entertain them and they were
>> mean and hard . I served with them in Zaire when I was there as liaison
>> between the French and US military mission. They were a no holds barred
>> group that didn't even consider the Geneva Convention. They tied women to
>> the front of their APCs to keep the Frelimo and SWAPO ambushed to a
>> minimum. They also took no prisoners. Mouths to feed that were unnecessary.
>> A professional group of soldiers. Something that Americans lack. We have
>> compassion.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:47 AM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Frances,
>>>
>>> Interesting about the failure rate in enlistmenting in the military. But
>>> probably just a sizeable percentage of the rejects were grossly overweight.
>>> Some of them failed to pass the IQ test, others had multiple criminal
>>> convictions, or had warrants out on them, others were psychologically
>>> unfit. And others for other reasons. Did you find a breakdown of the
>>> rejection categories?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 4/18/2019 12:48 AM, Frances Morey wrote:
>>>
>>> I was about to tell you to google it. I had a similar problem. I am
>>> making a talk about food education for the community college and I wondered
>>> if there was any problem with military recruitment due to overweight
>>> issues. Well, the recruiter at the US Army recruitment office in San
>>> Antonio told me he had no idea how many recruits were turned away. He
>>> suggested that I google it. What do you know, Google sent me to a story on
>>> the subject. A whopping 71% of those who apply to serve in the military are
>>> turned away!
>>> Best,
>>> Frances
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 6:21 PM Michael Eisenstadt <
>>> eisenstadt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am ever so proud to announce that I figured out the Footnote Function
>>>> tool all by myself. So I don't need the help of the AGL MSWord gurus.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> On 4/17/2019 4:33 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>>>> > Perhaps among the accomplished subscribers to our list there lurks a
>>>> > MS Word guru.
>>>> >
>>>> > This is the problem. I had always manually typed in footnotes on the
>>>> > bottom of the pages of whatever. I learned today that there is a
>>>> > Footnote Function in Word which automatically inserts a footnote at
>>>> > the bottom of the page.
>>>> > I can put in the first footnote but I can't figure out how to put
>>>> more
>>>> > footnotes at the bottom of the same page. Can someone here help me to
>>>> > surmount this hurdle and walk me through how to do it?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks in advance.
>>>> >
>>>> > Mike e.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie Loving
>>
>

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Charlie Loving
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