What Does The DoD Want With Little Ol' Me?

I've been noticing quite a few accesses to my site lately using an IP address originating from the Department of Defense. I wondered why the federal government might be interested in annexation issues around Fishers, IN. After hearing from all of the "parties" who spoke at last Wednesday nights geist annexation hearing I think I may have figured it out.

Apparently more than a few of the members of gUO have served in the armed forces so, it might be one of them. Personally, I don't really see how expounding on ones service in the military is supposed to create some fear-of-God response in anyone. Millions of people in America today have served in the military and unless you're running for some political office or applying for a job where that kind of experience is a qualification, if you have to constantly boast and crow about it, it probably means that you really didn't do much while you were in there. Many have parlayed 20 or more years of military service into a civilian career...no big deal. There is however, a great joke that I want to repeat here for the benefit of one of those guys in particular.

Shit: Through the Eyes of the Military

An Army grunt stands in the rain with a 35-pound pack on his back, 15-lb. weapon in his hand, having marched 12 miles, and says, "This is shit."

An Army Airborne Ranger stands in the rain with a 45-pound pack on his back, weapon in hand, after having jumped from a plane and jogged 18 miles, says with a smile, "This is good shit."

A Navy Seal lies in the mud, 55-pound pack on his back, weapon in hand, after swimming 10 miles to shore, crawling through a swamp, and running 25 miles at night past enemy positions, says with a grin, "This is really great shit."

A Marine, up to his nose in the stinking, bug-infested mud of a swamp with a 65-pound pack on his back and weapons in both hands after jumping from an aircraft at high altitude into the ocean, swimming 12 miles to shore, killing several alligators to enter the swamp, then crawling 30 miles through the brush to assault an enemy camp, says, "I love this shit."

An Air Force Captain sits in an easy chair in an air-conditioned, carpeted office in front of his computer and says, "My e-mail is out? What kind of shit is this?"

At any rate, I forwarded a nice, long log of the DoD accesses to my site on to the Pentagon, Senators Bayh and Lugar, Representative Ike Skelton (D, MO, Chairman-House Armed Services Committee), the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for them to deal with. I'm sure there's at least one young anxious bureaucrat/investigator out there who would LOVE to make some personal inquiries as to why a Federally owned, taxpayer funded ISP is being used by someone for the purpose of visiting my very non-national-defense-oriented web site. This might be interesting.