(May 2, 2025 at 11:56 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(May 2, 2025 at 11:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That's exactly how I took it. He values "victory" more than valor.
I'm sure you agree with me when I write that all of us played a part in, if not being valorous, making that valor possible. My dumb ass was in the rear with the gear where it belonged, but I supported well over a thousand combat sorties at the risk of my own life even though I've never seen combat. No doubt you've done the same.
He's a coward who wouldn't make a pimple on your ass.
I was also behind the lines in communications. First time I encountered a computer was in AIT. Of course, it only did one thing and that was talk to like computers, but we were set for combat situations...we weren't to fight but to keep people informed...long before you could loop in the wrong people in group chats.
While the Veterans/victory thing chaps my ass, the idea of spending millions for troops and choppers for someone who deserves a bounce house and a nap, at best, rankles my nerves.
Same same. I did nothing noneworthy, I fixed things that make enemy tanks go boom.
These sorts of parades strike me as self-aggrandizing performance politics. They have no place in free societies.
