My dad, all his brothers, grandfather, great grandfather and great uncles all have military histories covering the Army, Navy, USMC and in the "old" country of Austria.
My weapons proficiency comes from growing up in a home filled with firearms and being taught respect for weapons. My LEO son pushes me to stay sharp these days.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: my "disappointment" (for lack of a better word) with my own generation is we haven't taken matters into our own hands and fixed the problems in the District of Corruption ourselves. I'll stop there lest my comment get deleted.
In closing, my swiss cheese memory isn't just caused by age. I had to undergo an EEG a few weeks ago due to the mini strokes I've had and it shows that my pain centers in my brain are "lit up" big time due to all the nerve pain I deal with daily. The cause of my swiss cheese memory is in part due to age, the severity of it is due primarily due to the amount of pain I'm in daily and my brain attempting to deal with it at the expense of other things (memory, physical coordination, patience, logic & reasoning skills all suffering because of it.) I also have Ischemic Brain Disease and am seeing a specialist at the University of Illinois hospital for it. With all this, I still work full-time as a Senior Systems Architect for a large bank averaging 50-60 hours a week.
In short, I deal with "a lot of sh*t" that most people don't have to and some days it's all I can do to keep a lid on the frustration I feel as a result. Not looking for sympathy here, we all have crap we have to deal with especially these days. I for one wouldn't trade places with a parent having to school their young children @ home through this pandemic while trying to maintain a job and income. They have it far worse than I do, IMO.