Don't worry about this at all. I realize you kinda got off on the wrong foot on this thread and didn't intend for your post to be taken the way it was taken,but when push comes to shove,it's ALL red,white,and blue. We're family,regardless of branch of service,rank,skin color,or anything else. You hurt one of us,you are wearing ALL of us. Trust me on this.
GO back to the top of the thread. I initially responded to some guy who insisted this is all about how we have to "prove" to the nation that Bill Clinton was a Commie and that all the services--save the Marines--licked his boots.
To me, it's a non sequitur. While I would hope that eventually our victory in response to a direct attack on the United States of America--something not seen for nearly sixty years previous--will renew our national pride and establish at least for one more generation just WHY we have to have a strong defense, RIGHT NOW this is irrelevant.
The FACT is we've got a VERY tough job to do, the parameters of which I do NOT think any of us, from our leadership on down, really understand right now. We're headed into completely unfamiliar territory, and I suggest that within a year or so we are going to see that NO ONE had the answers immediately after 9/11/01. We will see that it's going to take the combined efforts of all the uniformed services, and a willingness to adjust to this new situation.
Therefore, chest-thumping, p*ssing contests and finger pointing at each other is stupid and pointless.