...I would dearly like to think so, but for most Americans, this is a tempest in a teapot.....how many of your neighbors are veterans of the United States Armed Forces...? where we live....none.....so what do Joe Sixpack and Susie Potts care about any of this...? means nothing to them......
(MSGT USAF Retd.)
E-8 versus E-9, that’s a little inside baseball, except that it’s part of the story about him not shipping out with his unit. Being disloyal to your comrades is reprehensible even to nonmilitary people.