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Military Perception of The President

(This post was last modified: 01-17-2015, 05:09 PM by wrong_box.)

Quote:Seriously???? We are NOT conditioned to accept handouts from the government. We are conditioned to bust our [BAD WORD REMOVED] to serve this country.

 

As someone stated before, contracts were signed, lives were given over to the government to do with us what they wanted/what was required. In return they pay us (have you seen the pay of an enlisted troop? Not even minimum wage per hour considering we're officially on duty 24/7), feed us (chow hall, MRE's), clothe us (uniforms), house us (barracks, tents, on post housing) and provide healthcare and retirement for a job we do 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We are expected to be ready 24/7 to be at the military's beck and call because that's how it works. No other job I can think of for the average American comes close. And we will go into harms way to protect this country, whether we or anyone else agrees with the why of it, or not.


 

I agree with most of what you put out on the board but in this you are sorely off base. In so many ways you are off base. Unless you have lived the military life you don't even know the hardship that goes into it for the troops and their families. We deserve every bit of retirement we earned, every bit of that healthcare (which BTW is not entirely how you think it is or you wouldn't consider it socialized), every bit of that VA loan (it's a LOAN we have to pay back- hello), every bit of whatever USAA wants to offer us.

 

I've been both the Soldier and the spouse so I know I speak from both perspectives in that you have no idea of what you're talking about. 
We are expected to be able to leave home at a moments notice in case of emergency...we can be recalled at any time on any day if we are home, on the weekend or on leave if an emergency..We can be eating Easter dinner with our family and the phone rings with an order to return to base IMMEDIATELY and deployment within the hour...Kiss your wife and kids good by without knowing where the hell your headed, or for how long...


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Military Perception of The President - by Guest - 01-15-2015, 06:42 PM
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Military Perception of The President - by jtmoney - 01-15-2015, 10:04 PM
Military Perception of The President - by CSO14 - 01-15-2015, 11:42 PM
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Military Perception of The President - by CSO14 - 01-16-2015, 03:20 PM
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Military Perception of The President - by CSO14 - 01-16-2015, 03:25 PM
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Military Perception of The President - by wrong_box - 01-17-2015, 05:07 PM
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Military Perception of The President - by Ringo - 01-18-2015, 04:33 PM
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Military Perception of The President - by EricC85 - 01-19-2015, 04:11 PM
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