Some Say Skill… I say Tact
I think that there are some things people value more than anything else in this world. Truly and furiously, I believe that my value is placed on areas where I can sometimes get trapped and overwhelmed with potential. Let me explain why I chose to enter the military service, why I chose to go the path of the green soldier instead of the Gold trimmed officer… I see that in the green soldiers tend to suffer more often than not, and on top of that, green seems to always get the worst hand in many situations. However, the respect green gets is stunning to most… 2 and half years down my green career, I have gone through 2 potential career threatening situations, 2 of which I maintained my tact and military bearing with whom I chose to keep my nose cleaner than the average Joe… Yes, I was called onto my 1SG desk to get asked a series of questions regarding the great army career killer known as a lack of punctuation; that being something that I always believed was something I had. Figures on time is actually 15 minutes early and “civilians On-Time” is considered to be 15 minutes late. One has to love what being green teaches you.
- Disappointment is just another condition which guides you towards happiness
- Decorations are things that make your chest feel too heavy and maneuverability is decreased hence the more you have the less battle ready you are during ceremonies…
- Punctuation is more than an expression ending a sentence for another to begin, it’s a life or death scenario for the army
- Lust is an object of great hatred and fire filling sex oriented demon with potential to destroy overall morale of troops…
- Excitement for change is not encouraged for when change comes so often you may start to feel like an idiot for jumping too early…
- Seniority does not include how old you are, but in fact how much decorated ranks are on your chest or shoulders… Sorry 40 y/o E-4s.. you are not senior to anything besides civilians…
- Army strength is addressed by how ready us green monsters are; truly and honestly we welcome any idiot to fight us; we are so ready for you that we practically hallucinate your arrival.. oh yea, that’s right
- Cowards are just individual people that refuse to get with the program and decide they want to do their own thing, a shout out to the retarded major that went ballistic, way to go dude, you really embarrassed yourself
- Embarrassment is just another feeling that we really do not feel; honestly, if you were there for half the stories we tell, you can pretty much say we have a SUPER SHIELD over our heads…
- Shield is just an old traditional piece of armor we used to carry to endure that we can at least survive the swings that the enemy throws at us.. of course we have to see it before we can block it… hmm
- Tradition is something that we as Green man must protect and sacrifice for when and if you are called to the stage for which the decision is actually yours.
- Sacrifice is something that we do, and sometimes do not even know it!
- Knowledge is one key factor that the gold always has over the green… Gold says we have to get this done while knowing the true and big picture while we green say.. YES SIR!!! / MAM!!!
- Yes sir/mam is our way of saying Roger that, or good copy, but more or less says who we are as green men….
- Green is obviously the army’s favorite color! Just imagine we call our selves the green machine; though I wonder why we always say we are getting fucked by the green giant…
- Green Giant is in fact what we call our heavy chain of command… but the sad part is that the green giant is in fact gold… or should i say.. SILVER!!! OH what a scary thought!
- Silver is that hidden color that we only see when 1. we are in trouble, 2. are getting into a tight one, or 3. getting recognition for something…
- Trouble is our middle name in the green society, and ladies yes, we are available
.. whats that? coming honey 
ha inside joke… - Inside jokes are like a wildfire, you see when one realizes that they are no longer in the inside, they really push to be in, so what the hell; the more the funnier, right? wrong!
- Realization is something that we rarely come to, all we worry about is getting our job done so we can go back to our loving and faithful wives to spend some alone time… (another myth)
- Myth, military women are faithful… true, many of them are because they were just too good at what they did. Talk about morale booster… HA!
- Faithful is what we will forever be to the power which guides us onto the battlefield… To the end sweet love, to the end… which our wives were like this….
- Power is something that I shouldn’t really have to define, the green knows they have it; the gold love em but at the same time envy it, and the silver… well… they are just above that word… more like supreme…!!!
- Supreme is a pizza from you local pizzeria which has a shit ton of topics on it, green machine loves pizza… other than that, no relation really….
- Relation is something special which we the green build our strength from.. we relate to just about everything… I lost my puppy too :’(
- Strength… Man… the gym is kicking my ass!
- Gym is the green mans favorite location … what a workout.
Well I can say that the above definitions of what we the green value has been helpful to some in understanding where we come from… As for me, off to the promotion board!
