I have run into crybabies like you a lot in my old profession. I worked at Lockheed-martin a defense contractor and all I heard was whining about how they did not serve in the military and how they wished they had served and did their part for their country. This particular statement came from a Chinese immigrant who wrote the algorithms that allows guided missiles to hit not just the building of choice but the specific room on a specific floor from 1800 miles away. To him and the other crybabies I wrote the following and sent it to all of them. I now include you with this letter.

To: Office Pogys, Pencil pushers, Cube rats, and others that think their lives here are boring and unimportant.

It has come to our attention that some of you crave excitement and in some ways resent the lives you have chosen or feel you are working at pitifully boring jobs. While us at the pointy end of the spear get to have all the fun and excitement in foreign lands.

We at the pointy end of the spear want you to push pencils, crunch numbers, put squiggles on paper and we especially want you to have boring and uneventful lives. We want you to go home to your families and tell them you had another boring day doing nothing important. From our point of view you create first aid for SSAM (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Gods gift to the planet earth Marines) When a soldier or a Marine is in a fox hole with an overwhelming force in the advance we call first aid and guided mortar or 155 rounds start falling around the enemy and we get another chance to come home alive. We want you bored to tears and go home with the worse battle of the day is fighting traffic.

When a soldier, Navy SEaL, or a Marine FAST Company needs back-up and an apache or F-15 comes out of the sky and guided munitions start to fall, that is truly first aid.
Again we get a chance to come home alive.

When JASSM slides through a window on the 18th floor and takes out a bunch of people planning another attack on U.S. soil lives are saved and you get to fight traffic again. Please stay bored. Whatever you are doing that gets the job done keep doing it cause you are what keeps us safe.

You are force multipliers. Because the gadgets you create allow the military to put less people at risk. And more people get a chance to come home alive.

Feel unimportant if you wish, feel bored if you must, just remember that we at the pointy end of the spear can’t do much without your boring lives. Sit in your comfy homes, watch TV, and feel unimportant but, every time you see a serviceman or servicewoman with those pretty ribbons on their chest as they tell exciting stories. Just remember it was YOU that helped bring them home.

Sighed: The people on the pointy end of the spear!


You see sir, Ms. Jennifer is correct. You are doing your part. You work hard and pay your taxes. You are not a drain on society. It does not matter if you are for or against the war on terror, or for or against the fighting in Iraq or for or against the president and his policies. If you are an American you are doing your part. If you are a Btit you are a valued friend and your sacrifice is noted by Americans. Please understand that the people that truly get it