I have to give credit to dear Judy143 for sending me this:

Drafting Guys Over 60


New Direction for any war:  Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down
terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military.  They've
got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off
to fight, they ought to take us old guys.  You shouldn't be able to
join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10
seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day,
leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate
on the enemy. (That's almost 8 hours for you mathematically challenged)

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky
soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm
tired and hungry.' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some
not a very nice person that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut
us up for a while.

An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys
always get up early to pee so what the hell.  Besides, like I said,
'I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be
up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.

If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where
we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real
brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting
screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food.  We've also
developed an appreciation for guns.  We've been using them for years
as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and
yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in
combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over
the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've
never seen anyone out run a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him.  He's still
learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl.  He
still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his
eyes, not the back of his head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a
little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists.
The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million
pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know
that their best years are already behind them.

If nothing else, put us on border patrol.... we will have it secured
the first night!