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2003-10-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Soldier On Leave Wins $150 Million Jackpot

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Posted by Steve 2003-10-02 12:35:38 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why?

$10 million buys a Bird and another $80 million buys a down payment on his own battlion. That's power you can't get in the private sector.

Posted by Shipman 2003-10-2 1:06:35 PM|| 2003-10-2 1:06:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Stephen's about to meet about 1000 cousins he never knew he had.

Posted by PBMcL 2003-10-2 1:13:38 PM|| 2003-10-2 1:13:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Shipman, like in the old days? Moore's Marauders? Hire a bunch of Gurkhas, and offer to take over patrolling Tikrit.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-10-2 1:31:02 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-10-2 1:31:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sure, with the Gurkhas I'll bet he could get a decent return on his investment.

Posted by Shipman 2003-10-2 1:52:44 PM|| 2003-10-2 1:52:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 ex-Marine roommate's comment:
The Army will probably ask him to buy out his contract. For $50-$150k, he pays the Army back for everything its given him (like training) and gets a general discharge.

Posted by Dishman 2003-10-2 2:14:44 PM|| 2003-10-2 2:14:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 he Army will probably ask him to buy out his contract.

I bet he has more class than that and will serve to the end of his currrent tour.

Posted by Steve White 2003-10-2 2:19:37 PM|| 2003-10-2 2:19:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Better that he win it than some sorry leech who cries about needing welfare to survive, then turns around and cashes his government check for cigarettes and lottery tickets.

Posted by SkinnyandBalding 2003-10-2 2:51:48 PM|| [http://www.skinnyandbalding.blogspot.com] 2003-10-2 2:51:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't like the lottery, but at least this jackpot went to a responsible person.

Posted by Katz 2003-10-2 3:15:20 PM|| 2003-10-2 3:15:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I like the lottery! It's a voluntary tax, and I'm more than willing to let other people pay it!

Hopefully he won't take $300,000 to a strip club and get robbed like that dolt in WV, though.

Posted by Dar 2003-10-2 3:22:20 PM|| 2003-10-2 3:22:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 You don't know HOW many times I had this dream in the service! Alas I will have to live it through Sgt Moore. Yes I would have served out my tour, but what a tour it would have been!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-2 4:22:37 PM|| 2003-10-2 4:22:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Ergonomically speaking, stuffing a dollar into a g-string three hundred thousand times couls cause carpal tunnel.

Posted by Superhose 2003-10-2 4:30:21 PM|| 2003-10-2 4:30:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Well at least now he can afford to live on army pay.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2003-10-2 7:24:04 PM|| 2003-10-2 7:24:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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