RE: "Brave & Coward" misused words OP/ED
January 18, 2016 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2016 at 2:01 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 18, 2016 at 1:39 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: Military service doesn't automatically mean life-threatening situations. In WWII 90% of US service personnel never saw combat.
I didn't say "automatically", so yeah. But you and I both know that funny things can happen between the MEPS, the chow-hall service line, and the morgue, that don't happen in the civilian world. My abiding memory from enlistment: Air Force needs come first. I wanted to be in crypto -- they wanted firefighters. So guess what? I got to put my ass on the line whether I was in combat or not. Same deal for the ammo/EOD guys, LE/SPs, and so on.