Amen, friend. They sure didn’t mind the payments when folks were deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq again and again and again...or even when I was spending half of every year in Saudi Arabia patrolling the No-Fly zone.
Kipling was right.
But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”;
But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide...