Have you even been to the Pentagon? I was there every day for five years.
That explains a lot. Operator’s have a term for guys like you - REMF. I believe there was a movie that explains what that means…basically a vulgar term for a guy who sits in a nice cozy office (like at the Pentagon) sending emails all day telling politicians that they have all of the answers, when in reality he doesn’t know squat.
REMF’s don’t hesitate to wear their reserve uniform to events for the free meals, receive the accolades for being a “hero”, and receive the military discount at Lowes. They will even announce, repeatedly, that “they served”, or “they wore the uniform” on internet discussion boards. Yet when they go for their VA physical the only injuries they can list on the form is excessive paper cuts, and possibly carpal tunnel disease due to all of the emails they have typed.
REMF’s have never slept (or, more accurately put, never NOT slept) in the field. Nor have they ever actually put themselves, or their careers on the line. This is easy to do when your operating area is an email inbox, and any decision you need to make can always be bumped up to your next line REMF. They have the luxury of waking up in their own bed every morning, getting warm coffee from Starbucks on the way to the office, being a few minutes late to work because traffic was just horrible, taking an extra 15 minutes at lunch because service was slow, and then heading out of the office 30 minutes late because of their kid’s orthodontist appointment.
Operator’s on the other hand rarely feel comfortable bragging about their service, because they know too many people who “really” earned those accolades…by laying down their life for their nation. When they go to the VA it isn’t for papercuts or carpel tunnel, it is because they are missing an extremity, or their nightmares are keeping them awake, or their neck or back is spasming from the repeated pounding they received from the aircraft landings.
Operator’s understand exactly how precious it is to go to sleep, and wake up, in their own bed next to their supporting wives…because they have spend HUNDREDS of nights away from their families, and their own beds. They may be hot-racking on a ship, or they may be sleeping in a duty room, or maybe in a tank, or a tent, or on the open ground…but they are not in their own bed, next to their wife. A REMF calls this “camping”, an operator calls this his job.
An operator smells coffee in the morning and thinks about how he can get it to his men. A REMF just thinks about whether he has enough cream to go with it. If an operator is “late to work”, it may very likely mean that they caused someone they know to become dead.
You do understand that not letting you have buy toys that can hurt other people with the income the rest of us hand you is no comparison to putting people in camps and gassing them. You are armed and your reasoning is sketchy. Again - you’re scary.
You FINALLY are right about one thing Gary. I am scary. Threaten my family, or the constitution that I swore an oath to defend, and you have every reason to be scared of me.
And with that I am done responding to you. You have attempted to make this personal by equating my military benefits (that I earned NOT by sitting behind a desk sending emails but with being in the field risking myself and, more importantly, my men’s lives) with living “off the government teat”. To put it bluntly, you are what is despicable about the American leftist.
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… So the Constitution is a document that has outlived it usefulness and is detached from our present reality …