DeyDurkie5;1577264 wrote:Lol you guys are dumb to think I was serious about that post. I do, however, believe we give service men way too much credit. It's a choice to serve and they get rewarded handsomly. The admiration and slobknobbing is bullshit.
I have stewed on this comment since I read it last week.
In terms of making bank: After you are in for awhile and start making rank then yeah, you can make a pretty good living but there is also the inherant danger that goes alot with alot of the things they do. I wouldnt say they are rewarded handsomly, but if you are in the right MOS, complete the right schools/courses then yes, you can make a good living. You see alot of the young ones with nice cars and mostly that is because they spend their bonuses and all their money on the vehicle as they dont have many expense.
I think you are wrong when one is talking about those who have been on deployments and in war zone, especially those who routinely are outside the wire and involved in kinetic contact like my brother who went overseas 4 timese as a Navy SEAL. Those guys deserve our utmost respect and credit. I have found that the majority of those people who boast and brag in the military are the ones that truly hadnt done anything yet. My brother and his Team guys rarely talked about shit, and didnt boast at all. If someone asked what he did for a living he would only say he was in the Navy, and if pressed to what ship he was stationed on he usually just said he didnt serve on a ship and at times some would make fun of him because they thought he never did anything or was just always stateside. He would just roll with it and take the ridicule.
For those people who havent gone anywhere yet then yeah, maybe too much credit given and I know many of them get embarrassed when people thank us. People are really thanking the Uniform and what the men and women have done from the beginning of the military.
Yes, it is their choice to sign up, no doubt about that. Some do it for the $$, for the recognition, college education, family tradition, to kill people, or just they dont have any other options.
Some do it just to do their part and want to get deployed.
Are there jerks? Of course, just like their are asshole cops, judges, lawyers, sports figures, message board owners, etc. Every profession has their idiots.