Dear Jordan.....
You bitch whine and complain all you want while yer in harms way. It’s a GI’s right too do so .......just be careful ya vent too .....just other GI’s and not the public.
Then ya become something I do not condone at all !
Thanks for taking your turn in the barrel Jordan. I didn’t like SEA, SWA, Grenada, Panama, Beirut or Mogadishu etc etc either...bitched like it was the 28th day every day and it did me no good but piss off my team and those around me so I quit when I learned that hard lesson.
Suck it up troop and get even , not mad. If ya want to make it a career ya have to get yer head straight NOW !
Stay Safe !!
It never changes.....Grunts bitch...
Things can turn dangerous and unhealthy if they’re happy and complacent...
BUT.
In our war - we never had:
- Access to satellite phone calls to our loved ones.
- Access to email and frequent communication with loved ones.
- Hot meals, worthy of the name.
- Air Superiority and Coverage, 24/7
- Body Armor, worthy of the name.
- Armored vehicles for transport.
- Tanks within minutes, when needed.
- Short tours in country - unless WIA/KIA. Always 13 months.
- Outpouring of U.S. public support, both in country and upon returning to the world.
Given all that — I STILL wouldn’t trade my war for the war these kids are fighting today....
At least we knew - the bastard in the jungle, on the river, coming through the grass or crossing rice patty in numbers with weapons were the enemy.....
Street by street, building by building - against an enemy who professes to believe the way to paradise is to die fighting the “infidels” — is NOT the war I’d want to fight on the ground....
I’d probably be bitching too - if I was in their place.
Some folks just go overboard and out of line, while “out of school” with their bitching.
Once home - that crap has to STOP.