Originally posted by: Narmer
Of course not. Those people I respect (if their reasons are traditions, respect for the uniform, or duty to serve). Those that irk me are the ones claiming to be doing it to save my ass. Bullshit. They don't know who the fuck I am yet they want to protect me? Save the tears, man. People who say garbage like that are confusing the nominal objectives of their jobs with their own objectives. Rarely is it one and the same. How do I know? Well, let's see if their enthuisiasm for protecting me ends when their contract is over or will they go into the private sector and selfishly work for themselves:laugh:.
WTF?! Do you really think that I wouldn't have accepted a bonus for re-enlisting if it was offered? What color would have your broad brush have painted me if I had gotten a bonus?
What you fail to understand is what military personnel really give up by deploying. You think that money is the prime motivation for service for the majority and that a service member thinks it is compensation enough for why we volunteer. How much money would it be worth you to give up seeing your children grow up, or put a marriage on hold, or even meet someone to have a relationship with? I mean, that?s a given for life in the service. Do you think that if money isn't the motivation, then it must be some sociopathic desire to kill? The people that make up the military are a little more complex and varied than you believe.
You are uninitiated. It is clear to me that you have no desire to understand the service, but merely accept anything that casts that subject in a light that you agree with.
And you're troll.:thumbsup:
Why isn?t there an ignore button?