‘In my experience most troops were apolitical.’
I can’t speak from experience but when President Bush visited our troops, they sure seemed to love him. At his recent visit to our troops in Iraq, the troops’ roar of appreciation and admiration for W was moving....but, of course, we didn’t see this on TV; we only saw the shoe throwing incident by the Iraqi ingrate.
imho, our troops can spot sincerity ......W sincerely respects and loves our military and their families and they can ‘feel’ it.
Reagan was also very popular with the troops including me. I didn’t vote for him though, and neither did anyone I know.