“Combat pay” and the resulting promotion potential is not the issue, so much as the objective is to dilute down and destroy the effectiveness of our armed forces.
There is no glamour in the trenches, it is a grinding, relentless drain on the sensibilities and capabilities, which tends to dehumanize the individuals that are exposed for an overly long period.
This extended social experimentation in trying to reverse the traditional roles of the genders, while an interesting study in perverse incentives and inappropriate rewards, is doomed to failure in actual practice.
I happen to agree with you
My dad would not talk about his WW2 experiences, except to tell a mini version of how he a SSGT and a PFC volunteered to put our Flag back up on “The ROCK” when Old Mac retook it. 6 years of his life was spent fighting and the enemy was very brutal.
My late husband's uncle fought under Merrile’s Marauders the original band, man did he come back messed up again 6 years of straight fighting.
To slightly shift subject but it ties in to the mental end of violence that causes PTSD, is the murder victim's families. No one has given a name to their plight. I have.
SGD, Seasonal Grief Disorder. It is not there daily to the degree our Troops go through, but it rears its ugly head often. For me it Oct-Mid Jan. Then starts to repeat in April.
I suspect that the spouses of our KIA go through the same thing.
I stopped watching the local news for the first 15 mins because it is just about one murder, rape or beating after another in Memphis. Crime capitol of TN. I am getting to old to take that kind of mental stress o a daily basis,