[oh8eleven]

due to the extreme physical demands that combat might make
No "might" about it - I've been there, it was incredibly demanding and unrelenting.

[goldstategop]

Neither the President nor the SecDefense has ever served a day in uniform.

They hate the military and want to transform it into another social service agency.

You have to be dumb, deaf and blind not to appreciate where they’re going.

[tumblindice]

Homer used the words, in the Illiad: “the labor of combat” describing Ajax swinging his hammer.