When I earned my sharpshooter badge in the Army the sergeant pinned it on me and said, “Congratulations you are now a trained killer.” Women weren’t allowed in combat so I’ve never killed anybody ever. However I did experience job discrimination after returning to civilian life that was directly related to having served.
Not to start about the Thirty Years’ War in Europe, after which many young man didn’t know agriculture or anything civilian, not even had a decent military education; all they could do was robbing, killing, pillaging, raping, and such. Thus, the years after that war weren’t much less of a hell than the war itself.
Prescott_Philosopher over 4 years ago
This is not funny! It is part of a movement by followers of Critical Theory that former members of the military should be feared and shunned.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 4 years ago
If he hadn’t killed the horse he could be riding.
dukedoug over 4 years ago
Join the armed forces. Travel to remote and exotic places. Meet interesting and exciting people … AND KILL THEM !!
sandpiper over 4 years ago
Comments on this arc seem to trend toward ambivalence.
Zebrastripes over 4 years ago
It’s a cartoon, folks!
Plods with ...™ over 4 years ago
When your ‘job’ is “Kill the enemy and break their toys.”, gotta wonder what the trade would be.
sheilag over 4 years ago
Vicious… he killed THREE people AND the horse they rode in on… one of the few times you actually witness death in this strip.
garysmigs over 4 years ago
Ah, I remember learning how to kill in 3 seconds with nothing but my bare hands! Those were exciting times!
t_a_80111 over 4 years ago
Thank you. Retired military.
brklnbern over 4 years ago
A prison type education.
Dianne50 over 4 years ago
When I earned my sharpshooter badge in the Army the sergeant pinned it on me and said, “Congratulations you are now a trained killer.” Women weren’t allowed in combat so I’ve never killed anybody ever. However I did experience job discrimination after returning to civilian life that was directly related to having served.
ars731 over 4 years ago
It aint the first time this happened. An certain Jesse James was in the civil war before his later claim to fame or infamy as an Western outlaw.
UlfPeterLangenbach over 4 years ago
Not to start about the Thirty Years’ War in Europe, after which many young man didn’t know agriculture or anything civilian, not even had a decent military education; all they could do was robbing, killing, pillaging, raping, and such. Thus, the years after that war weren’t much less of a hell than the war itself.