Did you enlist to play dress-up? I don't think so - you enlisted knowing that you might see action. If and when it came, you were prepared to respond. You know full well that for you to experience combant, others might die. The Colonel next door has opined that enlistments are up since 11 Sep 2001, does that mean you denigrate all those enlistees?
I just wanted to get through recruit training.
I'm sorry, again, that not enough Americans were killed ala Pearl Harbor or the WTC/Pentagon during the years you might have enlisted so that you felt conditions would be favorable for you to get combat experience.
Had you said that you would have enlisted had the country needed you, you'd be home free, but what you said makes you a laughing stock.
Walt