@BowTiedRanger Listen, I'm all for this. But what I'm not down for is people who never experienced this lifestyle degrading his prior service like it didn't matter. Point is, we all took an oath, despite the safety of our job.
@amish_but @emeriticus Service members and vets don't often fetishize our service, we understand it's a job, but there's also a pride and comradery we find amongst ourselves that most "box-stackers" on the civilian side won't ever understand. So you know, when you see someone get dragged that served-
@amish_but @emeriticus - been shot down by AA guns, especially in 2003 as the Iraqi Army still owned them. Then what? That "bus-driver" has to pick up a weapon IF he survived the crash and potentially protect himself in a dangerous environment.
@amish_but @emeriticus - pride about it. And yeah, Kinzinger's corny ass used his service as a point in an argument, very cringey, but that doesn't mean people should just degrade his service at-will just to win an argument. The dude did deploy to Iraq twice and at any point, he could have -
@amish_but @emeriticus Bro - It doesn't matter, scrubbing toilets, to working a cash register at a PX forward deployed. The point is that he still fulfilled his obligation to the government and his nation by completing that "3 year" contract. Just because it's a job doesn't mean you can't have some -
@amish_but @emeriticus Yeah, see that's what the OP was talking about. Just because someone stacked boxes on a truck doesn't make their service to their country any lesser than another service member's. If you'd served you'd have fucking known that.