There is nothing more infuriating than the anti-military types. It wasn't as extreme during Gulf I, but I could sense it from the aging hippies even back then.
I have sometimes thought that everyone should serve our country in some capacity for a year or two - maybe after high school. I don't believe women should be in combat positions, and like you said, there are many others that just couldn't hack it... but there are plenty of other opportunities. As long as it were done in-country and not something like the Peace Corps...
It doesn't happen. Mo is usually going to bed just as grannie is getting up. LOL
Did you all notice that I snuck away for my Grannie nap? sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Naps are the best thing about getting old.
Wait,......correction....they're the only good thing about getting old...
The worst I ever ran into in real life was a local newspaper reporter telling me and my howitzer sefction to our faces that we should be shutdown and charged with war crimes.
He almost found himself in a whole world of hurt, a good portion of our top NCO's had been in Vietnam, and they didn't take too kindly to this pencil necked pulp fiction purveyor saying that to us.
(Times Herald Record reporter in 1999. Never got his name since he took off his press badge and took off once the heat got too much for him.)
What a good portion of units could use is support, people volunteering time and such to collect minor necessities like bar soap, towels, stationary, staples, stamps, envelopes and such.
I do not have info on hand about what may be needed, CENTCOM may have that.
The anti-war types in my local area have been rather quiet, but they are there.
You can find them by listening in on their conversations.
Usually they're saying the tired old conspiracy garbage about 9/11 being a US CIA/Israeli Mossad operation.
Such insane ideas seem to take hold and grow among the supposedly educated but paranoidal and ignorant hippies in my area.