Military/Veterans question

If you served, you served, and you earned your veteran status.

Just tell him he's a douchebag and go on with your life.

Honor ALL who wore the uniform.

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If you served, you served, and you earned your veteran status.

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Everyone is part of the fight regardless of what position you served in.

My Dad will tell you he was a puss. But he can say it. I would not.

He was a spoke. He got drafted in 1968. He shite his pants. Went to the Army. Then "picked" for medical training. shite himself again at the thought of being a medic. But finally got "picked" to serve in a hospital in Japan. All he did was get a beer gut and learn to drink Japanese beer and smoke.

He had no control over where he went. Nether do or did a vast majority. Just did what he was told and got out.

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If you served, you served, and you earned your veteran status.

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Everyone matters. The military could not function as a whole without all the necessary moving parts.

for every one soldier on the frontlines, there are 10 behind him making sure:

1. He was trained
2. He was equipped
3: He was fed
4: He was housed
5: He was paid
6: He was given a mission
7: He was covered defensively
8: He had the best intelligence available
9: He was in good medical condition
10: He was transported to his duty station


without those people, the soldier fails... Honor all who have worn a uniform

A. Memorial day is to remember those who have fallen - primarily in battle, but also those who served and are no longer with us.

2. Nobody knows when they join up how it is all going to work out. I never expected to be in Kosovo or Iraq, or fighting a giant hurricane in New Orleans, for that matter. Likewise, if you end up at a fuel depot, or in a maintenance unit - one never knows when you're in that unit and in a convoy that gets hit between bases.

But, what folks in uniform DO understand is that what they do is inherently dangerous - firing weapons, operating heavy equipment, aircraft/airfield operations, explosives, etc.

And, their bodies take a pounding from physical training, ruck marches, exposure to chemicals, 50 innoculations at 1 time, etc.

Finally, if you're ordered to do something dangerous in your job - you can resort to OSHA, DOL, EPA, etc., and, at the end of the day, quit and go home before actual exposure takes place (at least if you know about it). Military folks have chaplains, sergeants major, the IG, etc., but at the end of the day, if they refuse an order, they face sanctions up to and including death.

So - let us back off the front-line versus REMF, strac versus pogue debate and honor the service. There are wonderful Americans who haven't served a day in their life. There are worthless sacks of dung who did 30 years in the navy, and everything in between.

Service is service - if one wants to elevate "combat" service, whatever that means in 2015 - by all means, do so. But please recall that these "non-combat" servicemen and servicewomen raised their hand, gave of themselves, time away from family and voluntarily did a bunch of unpleasant things that the vast majority of our population doesn't have the stomach for.