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Jeff '79
06-09-2011, 6:55pm
My spoiled little princess wants to go into the Peace Corp, before she goes into med school...She's taking the MCAT's in July, but wants to take a year or two , and go in the Peace Corp first....I have mixed emotions about this, but , hey....It's her life.....
Has anyone ever been in the Peace Corp here ????...I Know a lot of you have been in the WAR Corp, but I'd like to hear your experiences, whether it is your own, or someone that you know that's been in....
Frickin' blondes......:doh:
http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af113/jeff79/074.jpg
dude, call me ..serious check your pm for number
I absolutely would NOT allow it. Serious.
kylebuck
06-09-2011, 7:00pm
idk if she wants to do that ... why not have her go help flood victims in the US/
idk if she wants to do that ... why not have her go help flood victims in the US/
Much better idea.
theanswriz42
06-09-2011, 7:02pm
She does realize she's going to get stuck somewhere without amenities, right?
I bet she thinks she wants to join the peace corps.
I also bet she has some liberal friend persuading or influencing her.
Don't let her do it. She is waaaay to young & cute & blonde.
She probably has no clue as to the realities of the rest of the world.
DJ_Critterus
06-09-2011, 7:14pm
Good looking slim going off to foreign lands with (what I'm guessing, will be a group with no means of self defense other than throwing kashi bars at aggressors.... Not the neatest idea out there. Ask her why she doesn't want to help out here instead of foreign places most likely with god knows how much of our tax $$$ flowing to them.
mrvette
06-09-2011, 7:20pm
ALL of the above negatives PLUS....they will KILL HER one way or another....
outright or through AIDS.....reality check man....lock her in the basement toss the key, if necessary....
My son went to So. Africa some years ago, and if not for email and his posting like a idiot from there, and MY reply about first thing to WATCH HIS PECKER and HIS LIFE!!! I sincerely think he would be dead.....
age 19 or so, trip to So. Africa, by himself basically ....stupid mother, nothing else to say,
I have NO clue as to his health today.....
IF you had any clue as to the reality hidden in the propaganda over that foreign service and what happens to our kids over there, and let alone the chicks....
:confused5::sadangel::slap::leaving:
Jeff '79
06-09-2011, 7:27pm
Ya, I just had a little chat with Repo, who knows someone who was in, and I agree with all of you...Screw mixed emotions....I flat out just don't like the idea. Larry is probably right about the lib friend too..
Joe Buck...Thanks for the lovely PM....You need to get it out of your system first, and have a C-8, before you can see her.....:D
The attack, and disease thing really freaks me out...I'm going to have a chat with her after I do a little surfing, and get the facts...
Let her fill out the paperwork and then tell her you will mail it. :)
Ya, I just had a little chat with Repo, who knows someone who was in, and I agree with all of you...Screw mixed emotions....I flat out just don't like the idea. DJ is probably tight about the lib friend too..Joe Buck...Thanks for the lovely PM....You need to get it out of your system first, and have a C-8, before you can see her.....:D
The attack, and disease thing really freaks me out...I'm going to have a chat with her after I do a little surfing, and get the facts...
:skep:
theanswriz42
06-09-2011, 7:32pm
Ya, I just had a little chat with Repo, who knows someone who was in, and I agree with all of you...Screw mixed emotions....I flat out just don't like the idea. DJ is probably right about the lib friend too..
Joe Buck...Thanks for the lovely PM....You need to get it out of your system first, and have a C-8, before you can see her.....:D
The attack, and disease thing really freaks me out...I'm going to have a chat with her after I do a little surfing, and get the facts...
:rofl: Poor Joey
Uncle Pervey
06-09-2011, 7:35pm
Very little I can say good about the Peace Corps. A couple I used to work with allowed their daughter to join the Peace Corps after graduated from college.
They sent her to Mongolia, the best thing that she got out of was the ability to speak Mongolian. She also caught several parasitic infections and nearly died. :yesnod:
mrvette
06-09-2011, 7:39pm
Ya, I just had a little chat with Repo, who knows someone who was in, and I agree with all of you...Screw mixed emotions....I flat out just don't like the idea. DJ is probably right about the lib friend too..
Joe Buck...Thanks for the lovely PM....You need to get it out of your system first, and have a C-8, before you can see her.....:D
The attack, and disease thing really freaks me out...I'm going to have a chat with her after I do a little surfing, and get the facts...
JEFF, U and me not agree much on the poly ticks side, but NO WAY you let her join that outfit.....NO WAY, you gotta slap shit outta her, just DO IT@@@
damnit.....
known tooo many people over decades in that DC region....it's a NO GO...
:sadangel::leaving:
Their first responsibility is to protect your child and at that, they fail miserably.
Piss poor management.
Jeff '79
06-09-2011, 7:56pm
Sorry Larry....That was your quote that I gave DJ credit for.....Well... at any rate, I Googled Peace Corp Attacks, at Repo's request, and sent a few links to my daughter....If that don't scare the bee jeezus out of her, I will..... after she answers the e-mail....If she was a guy, that would be one thing, but............well, I might let Joey date him then.:D
khblair
06-09-2011, 7:56pm
hmmm. i had no idea. interesting views and facts
CertInsaneC5
06-09-2011, 8:00pm
I have had two friends die in the peace corps. Granted it was almost 30 years ago. But the world is not a safer place today than then. Whatever you do.
!!!!!!DO NOT LET HER GO!!!!!! :sadangel:
Jeff '79
06-09-2011, 8:07pm
I have had two friends die in the peace corps. Granted it was almost 30 years ago. But the world is not a safer place today than then. Whatever you do.
!!!!!!DO NOT LET HER GO!!!!!! :sadangel:
Damn......I hear ya.....Thanks. I may just give her the link to this thread over the week end....:cheers:
hmmm. i had no idea. interesting views and facts
Typical Govt cover up.
My doctor daughter just started being a real doctor earning real money. She's 33!!!! Going into the PC just delays that time further.
CertInsaneC5
06-09-2011, 8:22pm
Damn......I hear ya.....Thanks. I may just give her the link to this thread over the week end....:cheers:
I wish you luck. :cheers:
Jeff '79
06-09-2011, 8:27pm
This is quite sobering.....This better be a no brainer for her after seeing this.
20/20: 1,000 female Peace Corps volunteers sexually attacked since 2000. (http://cofcc.org/2011/01/2020-peace-corps-concealed-hundreds-of-rapes-of-white-female-volunteers/)
Frizzle
06-09-2011, 8:35pm
I had an ex GF who wanted to go (prior to meeting her) until her parents showed her the 20/20 episode about rape and sexual assaults that go on.
I wouldn't let her go!
This is quite sobering.....This better be a no brainer for her after seeing this.
20/20: 1,000 female Peace Corps volunteers sexually attacked since 2000. (http://cofcc.org/2011/01/2020-peace-corps-concealed-hundreds-of-rapes-of-white-female-volunteers/)
I didn't want to send you that, but I would have.
It is indicative of a systemic problem in that organization.
Cover-ups,lies, and management failures are commonplace.
Pass...
Be glad that you raised a daughter with high ideals and a giving nature.:cheers:
Just guide her into applying it somewhere else.
kylebuck
06-09-2011, 8:50pm
:rofl: Poor Joey
:shots:
Sorry Larry....That was your quote that I gave DJ credit for.....Well... at any rate, I Googled Peace Corp Attacks, at Repo's request, and sent a few links to my daughter....If that don't scare the bee jeezus out of her, I will..... after she answers the e-mail....If she was a guy, that would be one thing, but............well, I might let Joey date him then.:D
Well thank ya for that..:leaving:
SteelCityBlue
06-09-2011, 8:59pm
I worked for a division that recruited them. **** the peace corps. Those bastards will let your dauighter get raped by a dozen tribesman in africa and claim it was their fault somehow.
And the only way I am letting a BLONDE into some of those parts of the world is under a Nazi flag.
**** them.
and it's not 1000- that's the rapes. Not everything else. If some chick get forced to give a round of head it doesn't show up under that heading.
My spoiled little princess wants to go into the Peace Corp, before she goes into med school...She's taking the MCAT's in July, but wants to take a year or two , and go in the Peace Corp first....I have mixed emotions about this, but , hey....It's her life.....
Has anyone ever been in the Peace Corp here ????...I Know a lot of you have been in the WAR Corp, but I'd like to hear your experiences, whether it is your own, or someone that you know that's been in....
Frickin' blondes......:doh:
http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af113/jeff79/074.jpg
To in my Family has gone, my Aunt (Family Practice) and a niece (Anesthesiologist) ... and they both say it's one of the best experiences in their lives, they learn a lot about the world. :cheers:
Is no coincidence that all are in the Medical :yesnod:
These are people who really care about people ... everywhere and anywhere and are not labeled for being so. :yesnod:
Jeff '79
06-09-2011, 9:09pm
To in my Family has gone, my Aunt (Family Practice) and a niece (Anesthesiologist) ... and they both say it's one of the best experiences in their lives, they learn a lot about the world. :cheers:
Is no coincidence that all are in the Medical :yesnod:
These are people who really care about people ... everywhere and anywhere and are not labeled for being so. :yesnod:
How were their experiences, and where did they go ? I suspect that your niece's experience would be more up to date....
To in my Family has gone, my Aunt (Family Practice) and a niece (Anesthesiologist) ... and they both say it's one of the best experiences in their lives, they learn a lot about the world. :cheers:
Is no coincidence that all are in the Medical :yesnod:
These are people who really care about people ... everywhere and anywhere and are not labeled for being so. :yesnod:
something tells me your aunt & niece are not blonde?
do you have a clue as to the fate of a young, fair skinned, blond American girl in dangerous and corrupt places in the world?
theanswriz42
06-09-2011, 9:16pm
something tells me your aunt & niece are not blonde?
do you have a clue as to the fate of a young, fair skinned, blond American girl in dangerous and corrupt places in the world?
For once I actually agree with something you've said.
DJ_Critterus
06-09-2011, 9:26pm
Sorry Larry....That was your quote that I gave DJ credit for.....Well... at any rate, I Googled Peace Corp Attacks, at Repo's request, and sent a few links to my daughter....If that don't scare the bee jeezus out of her, I will..... after she answers the e-mail....If she was a guy, that would be one thing, but............well, I might let Joey date him then.:D
Yeah, my statement about throwing kashi bars was a veiled jab at the libbies.
This is quite sobering.....This better be a no brainer for her after seeing this.
20/20: 1,000 female Peace Corps volunteers sexually attacked since 2000. (http://cofcc.org/2011/01/2020-peace-corps-concealed-hundreds-of-rapes-of-white-female-volunteers/)
Yep was going o tell you that. Keep her safe man. The cute ones are first. Keep her on US soil.:cheers:
Mark C5
06-09-2011, 9:51pm
In 1968 when I enlisted they had a question asking if you had ever belonged to the Peace Corps. I asked my recruiter about it and he said you were considered a security risk if you answered yes. You wouldn't be barred from enlisting but obtaining a security clearance would be problematic.
When I went on recruiting duty in 1979 I noticed the question was not there but I was told it was still an issue when applying for a security clearance.
If she wants to good in the world, get her MD and stay in the U.S.
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Take care of Americans 1st.
I wonder if there's any way you could convince her to join - and earn her way through medical school - by joining the REAL peace corps - a branch of the US Armed Forces.
That'd be a shocker...
Africans will defile her......
Permanent damage.......
Idiot Friends kid (cute Asian Chick) had her rectum torn, almost torn out by buggering Africans at AK-47 point.
You have been warned.
:waiting:
Cybercowboy
06-09-2011, 10:25pm
I hope your daughter can indeed pass the MCAT's, as we need good qualified doctors right here. But for the love that all that is good, do not let her join the "peace" corps. Holy crap on a pixie stick.
This is a good idea if she has a lifelong dream of being violently raped.
NEED-A-VETTE
06-09-2011, 10:51pm
In 1968 when I enlisted they had a question asking if you had ever belonged to the Peace Corps. I asked my recruiter about it and he said you were considered a security risk if you answered yes. You wouldn't be barred from enlisting but obtaining a security clearance would be problematic.
When I went on recruiting duty in 1979 I noticed the question was not there but I was told it was still an issue when applying for a security clearance.
My daughter has been in the USAF for about a year now. That question was asked during her recruitment and within her paperwork. If you have been part of the Peace Corps, you cannot enlist.
No, Joey...you cannot date my daughter. She is gorgeous...and she would make you cry like a girl.
Lack of proper medical facilities for anyone hurt or injured is a huge problem. People in the Peace Corp have died from seemingly treatable injuries and illnesses.
HeatherO
06-09-2011, 11:04pm
a friend from highschool was in the peace corps for two years. she was sent to Paraguay (mid 90's) my sister went to visit her for a couple weeks. I am not aware of anything terrible happening to her while she was there, but when she came home, she was bat shit crazy and then disappeared here in this country, never to be seen or heard from again...
Milton Fox
06-09-2011, 11:51pm
I wouldnt let her go.
We took my then GF with us to visit family in Mexico and ended up having to put her in the middle of our group - just to keep the men away (young and old) who just wanted to touch her. Green eyed petite blond - they literally thought she was an angel.
As others have said there are a lot of places in America she could go and help out.
HeatherO
06-09-2011, 11:56pm
I wouldnt let her go.
We took my then GF with us to visit family in Mexico and ended up having to put her in the middle of our group - just to keep the men away (young and old) who just wanted to touch her. Green eyed petite blond - they literally thought she was an angel.
As others have said there are a lot of places in America she could go and help out.
reminds me of my visit to the Philippines, in an area where they don't have many foreign visitors....EVERYONE stared at me...my friends that I was with told me that they were staring at my boobs, and my blue eyes. neither of which are plentiful in the Philippines :lol::lol:
ft laud mike
06-10-2011, 4:05am
Good looking slim going off to foreign lands with (what I'm guessing, will be a group with no means of self defense other than throwing kashi bars at aggressors.... Not the neatest idea out there. Ask her why she doesn't want to help out here instead of foreign places most likely with god knows how much of our tax $$$ flowing to them.
:iagree:
This, didn't read all the posts, but all you have to do is a goolge search on "peace corps + whatever crime your mind can conjure up".
I heard a few horror stories from a group transiting through Accra, Ghana. Their experience in Ivory Coast involved rape (repeated & extended), torture, little to no assistance from anyone,violent physical assault. I am rather skeptical, but the look on these kids faces and their demeanor during the converssation (over many drinks).. led me to believe them
For once I actually agree with something you've said.
:withstupid:
Mark C5
06-10-2011, 6:51am
If you have been part of the Peace Corps, you cannot enlist.
Incorrect.
mrvette
06-10-2011, 6:53am
I have NEVER understood this altruistic crap mind set in the first place, life is tough enough without contributing to your own demise by at bone MINIMUM wasting your time on unsolvable problems in areas that will NEVER amount to a hill of beans....but adding in the chances of getting attacked and hurt over it??? gotta be kidding.....
For every one of them that comes back thinking they had a positive input/experience.....I ask a tough question....just what did they change over there?? how long did it take to revert back when you left??
I don't understand the 'guilt' complex in most of American society....
as if we OWE the rest of the world something, I say we owe them NOTHING, if anything they owe US.....about damn time they start paying UP, too.....
:beat::seeya::leaving:
Jeff '79
06-10-2011, 6:58am
I have NEVER understood this altruistic crap mind set in the first place, life is tough enough without contributing to your own demise by at bone MINIMUM wasting your time on unsolvable problems in areas that will NEVER amount to a hill of beans....but adding in the chances of getting attacked and hurt over it??? gotta be kidding.....
For every one of them that comes back thinking they had a positive input/experience.....I ask a tough question....just what did they change over there?? how long did it take to revert back when you left??
I don't understand the 'guilt' complex in most of American society....
as if we OWE the rest of the world something, I say we owe them NOTHING, if anything they owe US.....about damn time they start paying UP, too.....
:beat::seeya::leaving:
You mean , like, dog rescuers and that sort of thing ?
mrvette
06-10-2011, 7:09am
You mean , like, dog rescuers and that sort of thing ?
??? like the dawg pounds?? 50 billion unwanted pets roaming free in most hoods....especially cats.....
we have a Chiwawa and two cats, indoors.....but that's wife's projects....I live by my self fairly easily and care free, never was a 'pet' person....
:lol::cheers:
69camfrk
06-10-2011, 9:30am
I absolutely would NOT allow it. Serious.
Very noble of her, but HELL NO!!! No way would I want my kid to do it. Way too many horror stories out there. If she wants to serve, tell her to get her commission and go in the military or something. Just my .02.
onedef92
06-10-2011, 9:33am
Doesn't sound like her best destiny to me.
Bucwheat
06-10-2011, 9:35am
I would vote against it.
Joecooool
06-10-2011, 9:39am
My cousin who just graduated from Tufts last month with a doctorate in veterinary medicine spent two years in Ecuador with the Peace Corps. She taught natives how to raise guinea pigs for food.
She went between college and medical school.
She made some life long friends and told me it was the most rewarding two years of her life so far.
Iron Chef
06-10-2011, 9:39am
Send her down here. My backyard could use some brush clearing and I need some landscaping done. I'd give her three square meals a day and no need for a passport.
Yerf Dog
06-10-2011, 9:40am
You have to apply to get in the Peace Corps?
NEED-A-VETTE
06-10-2011, 9:45am
Incorrect.
That's what her recruiter told us. *shrugs* Said it had to do worth neither organization wanting the appearance of collusion, etc.
onedef92
06-10-2011, 9:54am
That's what her recruiter told us. *shrugs* Said it had to do worth neither organization wanting the appearance of collusion, etc.
Heya, Sandy! How ya been? :seeya:
Jeff '79
06-10-2011, 10:22am
You have to apply to get in the Peace Corps?
:yesnod: Yep.....
Interestingly enough, I haven't heard a peep from her, since I sent all of that info to her last night....
Joe said Equador....I wouldn't have a problem with Central or South America, but Africa, or the middle east??? Forget it. I've been to Ecuador, and Peru....It's just the girl thing....If it was a son, who cares, but for a girl to put herself in a position like that is just asking for trouble..
The app asks if she or her family are a member of any US intelligence organization. If so, no go.
My cousin who just graduated from Tufts last month with a doctorate in veterinary medicine spent two years in Ecuador with the Peace Corps. She taught natives how to raise guinea pigs for food.
She went between college and medical school.
She made some life long friends and told me it was the most rewarding two years of her life so far.
somethin' tells me she doesn't look like this...
http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af113/jeff79/074.jpg
Jeff '79
06-10-2011, 10:43am
Whaddya mean ?
Jeff '79
06-10-2011, 10:47am
ya, you
Cobra4B
06-10-2011, 10:50am
What's her number?
Seriously though... attractive blond american girl = death/rape/sex-slave trade. If she wants to see the world then maybe join the military as an officer and do it with the power of the US behind you.
I agree that central/south America would be one thing, but Africa/ME no way. The more I think about it the more I'd be against much more than Canada... I last went to Nicaragua my Senior year of college in 2003 and it was ok, but these days things are getting worse and worse.
ya, you
my point was/is...
your girl is a fair skinned...American blonde young woman. Candy in a wrapper to those who would exploit her physically.
My assumption was. Mr. Coool's cousin is not.
Jeff '79
06-10-2011, 10:59am
my point was/is...
your girl is a fair skinned...American blonde young woman. Candy in a wrapper to those who would exploit her physically.
My assumption was. Mr. Coool's cousin is not.
Oh...I thought that you were implying that that pic was not of my daughter...That's definitely her... I think I'll give her a call right now...She's had some time for my horror show e-mail to sink in....
Oh...I thought that you were implying that that pic was not of my daughter...That's definitely her... I think I'll give her a call right now...She's had some time for my horror show e-mail to sink in....
no...not at all. I think she is beautiful...maybe gorgeous (that will come later with some seasoning)
I hope she sees the realities & follows a more secure career path. let the ugly hippie women join the peace corps. :rofl:
Jeff '79
06-10-2011, 11:03am
no...not at all. I think she is beautiful...maybe gorgeous (that will come later with some seasoning)
I hope she sees the realities & follows a more secure career path. let the ugly hippie women join the peace corps. :rofl:
:rofl: Ya, really.....
Brett K
06-10-2011, 11:10am
I admire her desire to help people. There are alot of other options out there to help people who really need it with much less risk of death. I know a guy who travels alot with the American Red Cross responding to disasters. It would be alot smarter to get the medical degree first and then to serve the needy. She can dig wells or hand out water bottles now or save lives in a few years....and probably qualify for some loan forgiveness too.
Mark C5
06-10-2011, 11:10am
That's what her recruiter told us. *shrugs* Said it had to do worth neither organization wanting the appearance of collusion, etc.
Her recruiter misinformed you and her. Serving in the Peace Corps would make a service member ineligible to work in any intelligence field for a period of 4 years after the end of Peace Corps service but in no way does it now nor has it ever disqualified anyone from military service.
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