(December 7, 2019 at 2:49 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Yup, a whole lot of them. I used to be one myself (a veteran in the USAF, not a shithead - though that's just like, my opinion, man) so I can confirm your suspicions.
Being in the armed services gives you an OPPORTUNITY to step up and be somebody special but most of us were/are just shitheads who just saw a good job opportunity and took it.
I did boot camp as was mandatory at the time. In Portugal at the time men had to go. The basic stuff, but I didn't like standimg on parades, bah. Also, we are not at war, so I chose to drop out. Sometimes I regret it, as some of my friends made a mint in peacekeeping missions. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20. But we here don't have the thing you call "respect the veterans". My uncle did combat in the sixties. He has stories, ofc.
