“During every war, this stuff happens.”
I know but it personalizes it more, and stirs more personal memories to refer to a specific time of many of our own lives and times of service.
The Vietnam War also encompasses the largest single group of males on this forum that have endured these experiences.
I know this stuff happens to single people who pick the wrong person to handle their finances while they are away.
During the first Gulf War, had a SPC in my section who had left his mother with his bank account. He came from a poor family and when his mother saw his bank account, about $1000, she bought some nice Christmas presents for his siblings. The SPC was mad she spent the money> He knew she didn’t spend it for herself and his mother wasn’t greedy.