the first couple of months/years of a real war will separate the warriors from those that joined for “benefits”
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True, but you can imagine that 30 or so years from now the PRESENT DRONE ‘operators’ will be griping about how hard ‘they’ had it and how easy the BNG’s have it.
Of course like WJC pointed out ‘WE’ were the real DRAFT DODGERS - you know enlisted so we wouldn’t get drafted... Ha..
I seem to remember a lot of ‘us’ went in to
Get away from Mom
Get away from ‘girls’
Get away from ‘weaklings’
Get away from the ‘Do Funnies’.
Get away from the ‘Judge’ and ‘Jury of your peers’..
Now ‘they’ are not only subjected to being in Boot Camp with ‘them’ but also to have ‘them’ as DI’s and instructors.
Seriously look at an after action or casualty report from WW2. Scary crap..... Entire ships sunk, company size WIA/KIAs , thousands of civilians killed in nightly bombings...... The current touchy feely ROE will last until the first relative of a chosen elite gets smoked by a infiltrator or blown up by a domestic IED.