Reserve & National Guard "deployed" overseas

then quit complaining and join

You anti military son of a bitch

shite is overdone, similar to when a cop is killed, like the crime is more serious or the cop’s life is worth more than the next guy’s

Agree. The real heros are offshore and in dusty towns near Midland keeping this country going.
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You don't talk that way about muh troops!

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Jacques Doucet started that clusterfrick

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That's just one instance. It's happening in the news right now. That kid that was stabbed to death in KC, over a road rage fight. They say several times he served overseas and is a veteran. Why does that matter?

During the first gulf war I was watching the news and the story was about an army guard unit in Shreveport about to get deployed, they had the cameras out while they were loading up, families there all boudeting , very touching scene, turns out they were being “deployed” to Ft. Polk for the weekend

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think to myself, wow, they must be really suffering, having a European trip on the government's dime. They are not deployed, they are active, working a cush job.

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You're not wrong. Goes for Japan trips too

I agree with you to an extent, but some of those NG/Reserve units got sent to some real shitholes and torn the frick up in the middle and latter part of last decade. They aren't all sitting in Spain or Japan. I believe there was a Pennsylvania NG unit that really took it on the chin in Iraq, as an example.

However, there is a good line in the book Black Hearts about how the "thank you for your service" culture doesn't really discriminate between the different pieces of the military. Having an all-volunteer service and having only a very small portion of our population actually serving these days means that the vast majority of people can't distinguish between sitting on BIAP or KAF for six months versus ground-pounding Mahmoudiyah for a year. It might not be fair, but it isn't changing.

I do think it does a disservice to the guys who really had it rough, and I can be cantankerous to people sometimes when they talk about PTSD or how rough they had or whatever, and I've had to teach myself to tone it back. "What unit were you in, what year, and where?" usually isn't the best response in that situation.

Go spend 12 months away from your loved ones doing a shite job for minimal pay and then come back and talk shite.

Yes, they volunteered to sign up but that doesn't make it easy.

Complaining about them the way you did makes me think you are one big a-hole.