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The fact is, you aren't doing those jobs, are you? No, you aren't. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if you have a job at all, given how much time you spend posting here.
I've never done coal mining, and I've never done firefighting, but I sure did serve in the US Army and the Army National Guard, and have honorable discharges from both. But as usual, you divert the subject by switching the discussion to me, so as to DODGE issue being discussed. In this case however, you fail because I can talk about myself AND the issue simultaneously.
No, I don't have job. I'm 72 years old and retired, but >>> When I was in the service, I (and hundreds of other AMERICANS) did the hardest work there is in America. I was a combat construction specialist in the Army Corps of Engineers. For 5 years, I worked on building military bridges like the M4T6 pontoon bridge. No cranes. The big, heavy steel beams have handles on them. A truck dumps them off on the road, and we just lugged them down bumpy, weedy ground to the bridge site, where we then put the "balks" in place on top of the big, rubber pontoons (which we also had to carry, which are also heavy).
We did this from sunrise to sunset, rain or shine. As they say, >> "It doesn't rain in the Army, it rains ON the Army." Sometimes we were required to be tactical". That means, instead of just wearing army fatigues, we wore a pack, full pistol belt with canteen, etc, steel pot (heavy)helmet, and a 9 lb.rifle slinged across your torso.
One thing I noticed. There were no illegal aliens there. They were out picking fruit somewhere. Boy, how we envied them. Any one of us would have traded places in a heartbeat.
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