“We do a lot of their work for them.”
Yes, and that must be very hard for GI’s to take. It has become (or perhaps from the git) reminiscent of post Gulf War I Kuwait. I share your indignance if I have perceived it correctly.......I also resented the ARVN shamming in the background so much 40 yrs ago......
You have indeed perceived it correctly, sir. You know just as well as I do how it feels to go into dangerous missions day after day while seeing the local military, who should be doing that job, cowering in their patrol bases. It's utterly infuriating and completely predictable in every neighborhood we go into.