Related:‘These SEALs, these guys who killed bin Laden, earn about $54,000 a year’
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Just incredible! When they retire, these dogs become family pets. Gives a new meaning to ‘Beware of Dog’.
but most dippers and liebrals fault them for their contribution and many others help the moonbats out because they somehow didn’t ‘earn’ their pay simply because they get paid from tax dollars, not making widgets…to sell to the government.
Does anyone know if the dog is connected to his/her handler via a long line? Or is there some other mechanism to get him/her close to the intended target?
Mississauga Matt: Titanium fangs! Sweet! BEWARE OF DOG!!
Robert W That looks like a water jump 10 or 15 feet up. Parachute jumps they are strapped to the handlers chest. They have their own oxygen masks for high altitude. The record is 30,000 feet for a dog. Hah try that Fido.
Terrific shot. But Peta will condemn the Seals for mistreatment of animals.
Oh wait! I thought they were against Seal hunts.
“Related: ‘These SEALs, these guys who killed bin Laden, earn about $54,000 a year.'”
Meanwhile, the salary of the average CEO of an S&P 500 company is about 20 times that ($1.1 million); his/her annual total compensation, about 210 times that ($11.4 million).
But of course, public school teacher salaries (avg. ~$50K) remain the real scandal.
Robert W:
No need for a line – the dog will stick with its handler and knows exactly what it’s supposed to do. I’d take a K9 partner anytime over any human being except a Navy SEAL or a Green Beret.
Re the titanium teeth, I heard they were actually caps, but same effect Youch!
Robert W:
Oh, you mean the jump!
Speedy – I agree with you, and my answer’s the same…
Wow that is a great photo.
Belgian Malinois and Dutch Shepherds…. is there anything they can’t do?
Speedy, thanks for that. Sorry, I was looking at SDA on my iPhone and the water looked like clouds.
Pretty amazing dogs indeed!
SEALS earn less than Sask. teachers who are on strike. Can’t remember the last SEAL strike as it is called MUTINY.
The K9s work for doggie treats.
There’s nothing like a dog.
Davenport – Are you saying teacher comp. in Wisconsin averaged $50,000? That figure is only salary; it doesn’t include benefits.
The real problem isn’t teachers, it is unions which are a conspiracy directly at odds with the interest of the students. They should be outlawed, and the parents should be given full control of where their child’s education dollars go. Then, the average pay of good teachers would quickly rise, and those who weren’t capable would be find other occupations that were a better fit. Union rules prevent rewarding unusually good results in the classroom. Everyone at the same step gets the same pay.
Non-union Texas is far more effective in educating minorities, and practically all other students, then is hyper-union Wisconsin.
Defense spending is the only category of US Federal expenditure that gets results. Why not put all the cabinet agencies under defense, just as the corps of engineers, who build infrastructure are. Things would get done on time and on budget. There are actual consequences for failure in the US military, unlike in the civilian side of the government.
For a REALLY ridiculous salary comparison think of Layton’s kiddie corps. People with no experience in politica (or in anything else) will be hauling in $157,000/yr for a guaranteed four years. Ouch!
$54 grand?
I know I’m comparing apples and mushrooms here, but that’s about $15K less than the average Ontario Ministry of Environment pencil-pusher.
Must be a “value to society” thing that I just don’t get…
Yet young men and women keep signing on to join Uncle Sam’s forces and the last I checked, there are no guns held to the heads of fresh graduates with a B Ed. Perhaps some love their country enough to be willing to die for it and some teach for the love of teaching.
There’s no sense crying if you knew what you were getting into? Kind of cheapens one’s position, yes?
You’re getting very tiring Davenpoop. Incidentally, I am thankful that I can and have made between 3 and 7 times that amount here in beautiful, CONSERVATIVE Alberta. All without a union to extort it for me, or a politician to hand over to me. Earlier in my career I made less than half that amount for many years.
Enjoy crying in your sour class warfare milk, sofa boy.
Davenport
Do seals get two weeks off at Christmas, a week long spring break, two days at Easter, several stats a year and two months in summer?
Don’t bother answering. It’ll only be dumb. Like “They get to travel.”
Move along.
Once again, dogs prove their awesomery.
Anyone who puts his life on the line deserves more than $54,000 a year in my opinion.
I hate to have to also go after Davenport but soldiers and teachers are paid out of the public purse. The pay of a CEO is between them and the shareholders/board of directors. As a tax paying citizen what private people do with their money is non of my business, what governments do, is.
“But of course, public school teacher salaries (avg. ~$50K) remain the real scandal.”
Yes. Because it comes out of everyone else’s pocket, and the results are far below acceptable.
Hell. I mean, you’d think this day and age that we wouldn’t have to explain to people that economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because a man’s work is valuable enough to be deemed worthy of a $1.1 million salary DOES NOT MEAN that someone else must lose $1.1 million they might have otherwise had.
Hopefully some of the bounty on Osama’s head will go to the seals. Or a portion of the assets seized as a result of the computers and hard-drives they grabbed. They’ve certainly earned it.
Now we know what happened to “Vegas” Brosseau. We’ve learned from her skimpy Bio that she rescues animals.
She jumped out of the plane to rescue the dog.
And she was a parachute candidate.
$54,0000/ year + PERKS!
Davenport >
Good point Davenport, lets arrest and execute the CEO of General Motors and put you in the job at $54,000/ year.
The cars will sell like potcakes at a hamas/ Egal rally.
“Man’s best friend is a pretty fearsome warrior.”
Fearsome, and fearless.
And the fact that they’re considered “unclean” by Muslims is an added bonus in this context.
Davenport, why not try Canada — Alberta average teacher’s salary $68,000 per year plus benefits.
Re the Navy Seal’s meagre $54,000/year: Does it have anything to do with keeping them mean and lean?
I’m very moved by the photo and am not sure why. Perhaps it’s the supreme trust between dog and man, man and dog — and knowing that that jump, in order to secure others’ freedom, risks their own.
In a word, sacrifice.
Not only are the dogs beneficial to the mission itself, it’s the understanding and caring between the dog and it’s handler. The dogs likely make life a little easier for them considering the circumstances and the h*llholes they are dropped into.
Win, win, win all around.
In a word, sacrifice. ~ batb
It’s a good word which certainly applies in general to those who serve; I think though that neither Geronimo nor his hooman have that notion in their minds, so allow me to suggest “duty”.
Great pic but as an old Air Force wog I still say anyone jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft is crazy. Thank G*d those crazy shits are on our side.
…perfectly serviceable aircraft…
Keep in mind we’re talking helicopter here.
Thousands of parts flying in loose formation.
“But of course, public school teacher salaries (avg. ~$50K) remain the real scandal.”
If only it were true. Once you figure in the benefits it jumps quite nicely to 104000(average teacher salary in Wisconsin according to the teachers union)
(The war dogs deployed to Vietnam during that conflict were classified as “surplus equipment” and left behind.)
We had a German Shepherd Patrol Trooper walking the munitions dump perimeter that knew when the enemy was close and would start barking when he smelled trouble or heard rockets/mortars in-coming.
It only gave us an extra 5-10 seconds but that could be the difference between life and death.
We never left them to be eaten by the Dinks.
A well placed bullet and decent burial was more Honorable.
The two we buried had harden men shed tears for them,
we had nothing to be ashamed of.
Sad frucking war.
Amazing creatures, these four-pawed marvels! A lot smarter too than you might think.
After several years of intense service, they’re usually ‘pensioned off’ for a quieter retirement.
-..-.-..-..-.-.-.-.-
A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: ‘Talking Dog For Sale ‘. He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.
The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.
‘You talk?’ he asks.
‘Yep,’ the Lab replies.
After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says ‘So, what’s your story?’
The Lab looks up and says, ‘Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping.’
‘I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running. But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger so I decided to settle down.. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals.’ ‘I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I’m just retired..’
The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
‘Ten dollars,’ the guy says.
‘Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?’
‘Because he’s a liar. He never did any of that shit.’
Fearless Leader
Yeah…..I remember we cared enough…to send the very best….literally the coup de gras….
Dogs seem clarvoyant….mine just gave the doggie equivalent of a doggie hug…..
“These SEALs, these guys who killed bin Laden, earn about $54,000 a year”
Yeah, but look at all the fun things they get to do at work. Jump out of planes, practice their scuba skills, and shoot terrorists. Sign me up!
Every now and then we have a debate on SDA over whether there are occasions where an animal’s life is more important than a human’s life. Some odd characters always argue that the well being of humans should *always* take priority over animals.
If it was a choice between this splendid animal in the picture Kate posted, or Bin Laden, I would side with this animal every time.
I rest my case.
My screen name is a cheeky nod to my curmudgeonly tendencies, but on that note nothing can set you on the path to misanthropy quite like the company of dogs. They so effortlessly show-up the great bulk of humanity with their genuine and unpretentious devotion.
Posted by: Davenport at May 6, 2011 3:29 PM
Ahh, yes. Confounding private sector wages with mandatory taxpayer-funded public sector wages. An illuminating argument, as always.
I, for one, would support higher wages for our military than our teachers: they put their lives on the line for peanuts, relatively-speaking.
Teacher salaries/benefits ARE the real scandal, Einstein: gold-plated pensions in Ontario, and in the US, combined salary/benefits roughly double that of the average private sector employees. I guess that wouldn’t be scandalous to anybody not on the public trough, however.
Davenport’s posts have nearly a perpetual-motion quality to their ignorance: with little initial effort, they continue indefinitely on their own without any additional energy required to sustain their momentum. Very instructive to teach others about the pitfalls of logical fallacies and the ignorance of the left, in general.
Do keep posting.
mhb23re
The pay calculations are a bit of a lowball.
A SEAL on that team is going to be at least an E-6 with more than 10 years of service.
A Staff Sergeant over 10 years with no dependents in Virginia Beach makes $54000 not including $1800 in hazardous duty pay. That doesn’t include specialty pay and their massive reenlistment bonuses which will range from $50,000 to $100,000.
An E-7 over 14 years makes an additional $12,000 a year. The officers are going to be in the six figures.
The value of their benefits is pretty high. And any month they are in combat, all their pay is tax free.
So they probably earn more than most Wisconsin school teachers, less than some, but clearly they do far more dangerous and important work. Wisconsin teachers ought to hang their heads in shame.
Military pay isn’t so bad. Being an Army officer was the best paying job I ever had. My nominal pay then was lower than my current civilian pay, but with the tax breaks my effective income was higher as a soldier.
But you don’t become a SEAL for the money.
If dogs”could” talk.. In those first two photos, it would probably be WTF!
?Let loose the dogs of war” indeed
…perfectly serviceable aircraft…
This is a CH-47 Chinook.
The running joke about Chinooks is that you start worrying when they stop leaking fluids.
I remember one time back in the early 1990s on a commercial aircraft that it was the first time in two years and 24 flights that I had actually landed with the airplane.
If you’ve never made a parachute jump, you haven’t lived.
Just incredible! When they retire, these dogs become family pets. Gives a new meaning to ‘Beware of Dog’.
but most dippers and liebrals fault them for their contribution and many others help the moonbats out because they somehow didn’t ‘earn’ their pay simply because they get paid from tax dollars, not making widgets…to sell to the government.
A Shepherd named Geronimo.
Scaramouche links to a page in which it is claimed that the U.S. military often replaces a working dog’s teeth with titanium fangs capable of ripping through enemy protective armor.
God bless the USA!
Does anyone know if the dog is connected to his/her handler via a long line? Or is there some other mechanism to get him/her close to the intended target?
Mississauga Matt: Titanium fangs! Sweet! BEWARE OF DOG!!
Robert W That looks like a water jump 10 or 15 feet up. Parachute jumps they are strapped to the handlers chest. They have their own oxygen masks for high altitude. The record is 30,000 feet for a dog. Hah try that Fido.
Terrific shot. But Peta will condemn the Seals for mistreatment of animals.
Oh wait! I thought they were against Seal hunts.
“Related: ‘These SEALs, these guys who killed bin Laden, earn about $54,000 a year.'”
Meanwhile, the salary of the average CEO of an S&P 500 company is about 20 times that ($1.1 million); his/her annual total compensation, about 210 times that ($11.4 million).
But of course, public school teacher salaries (avg. ~$50K) remain the real scandal.
Robert W:
No need for a line – the dog will stick with its handler and knows exactly what it’s supposed to do. I’d take a K9 partner anytime over any human being except a Navy SEAL or a Green Beret.
Re the titanium teeth, I heard they were actually caps, but same effect Youch!
Robert W:
Oh, you mean the jump!
Speedy – I agree with you, and my answer’s the same…
Wow that is a great photo.
Belgian Malinois and Dutch Shepherds…. is there anything they can’t do?
Speedy, thanks for that. Sorry, I was looking at SDA on my iPhone and the water looked like clouds.
Pretty amazing dogs indeed!
SEALS earn less than Sask. teachers who are on strike. Can’t remember the last SEAL strike as it is called MUTINY.
The K9s work for doggie treats.
There’s nothing like a dog.
Davenport – Are you saying teacher comp. in Wisconsin averaged $50,000? That figure is only salary; it doesn’t include benefits.
The real problem isn’t teachers, it is unions which are a conspiracy directly at odds with the interest of the students. They should be outlawed, and the parents should be given full control of where their child’s education dollars go. Then, the average pay of good teachers would quickly rise, and those who weren’t capable would be find other occupations that were a better fit. Union rules prevent rewarding unusually good results in the classroom. Everyone at the same step gets the same pay.
Non-union Texas is far more effective in educating minorities, and practically all other students, then is hyper-union Wisconsin.
Defense spending is the only category of US Federal expenditure that gets results. Why not put all the cabinet agencies under defense, just as the corps of engineers, who build infrastructure are. Things would get done on time and on budget. There are actual consequences for failure in the US military, unlike in the civilian side of the government.
For a REALLY ridiculous salary comparison think of Layton’s kiddie corps. People with no experience in politica (or in anything else) will be hauling in $157,000/yr for a guaranteed four years. Ouch!
$54 grand?
I know I’m comparing apples and mushrooms here, but that’s about $15K less than the average Ontario Ministry of Environment pencil-pusher.
Must be a “value to society” thing that I just don’t get…
Yet young men and women keep signing on to join Uncle Sam’s forces and the last I checked, there are no guns held to the heads of fresh graduates with a B Ed. Perhaps some love their country enough to be willing to die for it and some teach for the love of teaching.
There’s no sense crying if you knew what you were getting into? Kind of cheapens one’s position, yes?
You’re getting very tiring Davenpoop. Incidentally, I am thankful that I can and have made between 3 and 7 times that amount here in beautiful, CONSERVATIVE Alberta. All without a union to extort it for me, or a politician to hand over to me. Earlier in my career I made less than half that amount for many years.
Enjoy crying in your sour class warfare milk, sofa boy.
Davenport
Do seals get two weeks off at Christmas, a week long spring break, two days at Easter, several stats a year and two months in summer?
Don’t bother answering. It’ll only be dumb. Like “They get to travel.”
Move along.
Once again, dogs prove their awesomery.
Anyone who puts his life on the line deserves more than $54,000 a year in my opinion.
I hate to have to also go after Davenport but soldiers and teachers are paid out of the public purse. The pay of a CEO is between them and the shareholders/board of directors. As a tax paying citizen what private people do with their money is non of my business, what governments do, is.
“But of course, public school teacher salaries (avg. ~$50K) remain the real scandal.”
Yes. Because it comes out of everyone else’s pocket, and the results are far below acceptable.
Hell. I mean, you’d think this day and age that we wouldn’t have to explain to people that economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because a man’s work is valuable enough to be deemed worthy of a $1.1 million salary DOES NOT MEAN that someone else must lose $1.1 million they might have otherwise had.
Hopefully some of the bounty on Osama’s head will go to the seals. Or a portion of the assets seized as a result of the computers and hard-drives they grabbed. They’ve certainly earned it.
Now we know what happened to “Vegas” Brosseau. We’ve learned from her skimpy Bio that she rescues animals.
She jumped out of the plane to rescue the dog.
And she was a parachute candidate.
$54,0000/ year + PERKS!
Davenport >
Good point Davenport, lets arrest and execute the CEO of General Motors and put you in the job at $54,000/ year.
The cars will sell like potcakes at a hamas/ Egal rally.
“Man’s best friend is a pretty fearsome warrior.”
Fearsome, and fearless.
And the fact that they’re considered “unclean” by Muslims is an added bonus in this context.
Davenport, why not try Canada — Alberta average teacher’s salary $68,000 per year plus benefits.
Re the Navy Seal’s meagre $54,000/year: Does it have anything to do with keeping them mean and lean?
I’m very moved by the photo and am not sure why. Perhaps it’s the supreme trust between dog and man, man and dog — and knowing that that jump, in order to secure others’ freedom, risks their own.
In a word, sacrifice.
Not only are the dogs beneficial to the mission itself, it’s the understanding and caring between the dog and it’s handler. The dogs likely make life a little easier for them considering the circumstances and the h*llholes they are dropped into.
Win, win, win all around.
In a word, sacrifice. ~ batb
It’s a good word which certainly applies in general to those who serve; I think though that neither Geronimo nor his hooman have that notion in their minds, so allow me to suggest “duty”.
Great pic but as an old Air Force wog I still say anyone jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft is crazy. Thank G*d those crazy shits are on our side.
…perfectly serviceable aircraft…
Keep in mind we’re talking helicopter here.
Thousands of parts flying in loose formation.
“But of course, public school teacher salaries (avg. ~$50K) remain the real scandal.”
If only it were true. Once you figure in the benefits it jumps quite nicely to 104000(average teacher salary in Wisconsin according to the teachers union)
We had a German Shepherd Patrol Trooper walking the munitions dump perimeter that knew when the enemy was close and would start barking when he smelled trouble or heard rockets/mortars in-coming.
It only gave us an extra 5-10 seconds but that could be the difference between life and death.
We never left them to be eaten by the Dinks.
A well placed bullet and decent burial was more Honorable.
The two we buried had harden men shed tears for them,
we had nothing to be ashamed of.
Sad frucking war.
Amazing creatures, these four-pawed marvels! A lot smarter too than you might think.
After several years of intense service, they’re usually ‘pensioned off’ for a quieter retirement.
-..-.-..-..-.-.-.-.-
A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: ‘Talking Dog For Sale ‘. He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.
The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.
‘You talk?’ he asks.
‘Yep,’ the Lab replies.
After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says ‘So, what’s your story?’
The Lab looks up and says, ‘Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping.’
‘I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running. But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger so I decided to settle down.. I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals.’ ‘I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I’m just retired..’
The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
‘Ten dollars,’ the guy says.
‘Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?’
‘Because he’s a liar. He never did any of that shit.’
Fearless Leader
Yeah…..I remember we cared enough…to send the very best….literally the coup de gras….
Dogs seem clarvoyant….mine just gave the doggie equivalent of a doggie hug…..
“These SEALs, these guys who killed bin Laden, earn about $54,000 a year”
Yeah, but look at all the fun things they get to do at work. Jump out of planes, practice their scuba skills, and shoot terrorists. Sign me up!
Every now and then we have a debate on SDA over whether there are occasions where an animal’s life is more important than a human’s life. Some odd characters always argue that the well being of humans should *always* take priority over animals.
If it was a choice between this splendid animal in the picture Kate posted, or Bin Laden, I would side with this animal every time.
I rest my case.
My screen name is a cheeky nod to my curmudgeonly tendencies, but on that note nothing can set you on the path to misanthropy quite like the company of dogs. They so effortlessly show-up the great bulk of humanity with their genuine and unpretentious devotion.
Posted by: Davenport at May 6, 2011 3:29 PM
Ahh, yes. Confounding private sector wages with mandatory taxpayer-funded public sector wages. An illuminating argument, as always.
I, for one, would support higher wages for our military than our teachers: they put their lives on the line for peanuts, relatively-speaking.
Teacher salaries/benefits ARE the real scandal, Einstein: gold-plated pensions in Ontario, and in the US, combined salary/benefits roughly double that of the average private sector employees. I guess that wouldn’t be scandalous to anybody not on the public trough, however.
Davenport’s posts have nearly a perpetual-motion quality to their ignorance: with little initial effort, they continue indefinitely on their own without any additional energy required to sustain their momentum. Very instructive to teach others about the pitfalls of logical fallacies and the ignorance of the left, in general.
Do keep posting.
mhb23re
The pay calculations are a bit of a lowball.
A SEAL on that team is going to be at least an E-6 with more than 10 years of service.
A Staff Sergeant over 10 years with no dependents in Virginia Beach makes $54000 not including $1800 in hazardous duty pay. That doesn’t include specialty pay and their massive reenlistment bonuses which will range from $50,000 to $100,000.
An E-7 over 14 years makes an additional $12,000 a year. The officers are going to be in the six figures.
The value of their benefits is pretty high. And any month they are in combat, all their pay is tax free.
So they probably earn more than most Wisconsin school teachers, less than some, but clearly they do far more dangerous and important work. Wisconsin teachers ought to hang their heads in shame.
Military pay isn’t so bad. Being an Army officer was the best paying job I ever had. My nominal pay then was lower than my current civilian pay, but with the tax breaks my effective income was higher as a soldier.
But you don’t become a SEAL for the money.
If dogs”could” talk.. In those first two photos, it would probably be WTF!
?Let loose the dogs of war” indeed
…perfectly serviceable aircraft…
This is a CH-47 Chinook.
The running joke about Chinooks is that you start worrying when they stop leaking fluids.
I remember one time back in the early 1990s on a commercial aircraft that it was the first time in two years and 24 flights that I had actually landed with the airplane.
If you’ve never made a parachute jump, you haven’t lived.