Truth be told. You guys are expendable. Most likely you guys are the most expendable "productive" members in society. So no one cares about and it is what you signed up for. Don't blame or anything realize that it was what you wanted so don't be expecting a thanks.
I'm not the "We the People" pretending otherwise. This is exactly what I was talking about. We know the truth about ourselves despite the civilian world pretending different. I joined in 1992, well before this "Support theTroop" fad.
We know we are expendable. We don't expect a thanks nor want it. It's embarrassing. We do this for the excitment and the action. We do it for us. Not for the Budweiser commercials that salute the troops in order to boost sales. We don't care for the falsehoods that make civilians feel better about themselves when they want others to do their revenge killing. "Support the Troop" was a politician's tactic. If "We the People" weren't so stupid, the military would have handled Al-Queda before 9/11 when our intel systms were screaming about it but was ignored.
Case in point....before 9/11, military members were murdered abroad without a care. Our inventory across the branches were Vietnam vintage. Nobody gave a ****. But after 9/11, "We the People" decided that it would boost the anti-Bush campaign by pointing at our equipment. The Democratic Party couldn't fathom why our troops were without proper body armor and complete NBC suits as if we ever had it before.
Another case in point....at a time when troops need inexpensive body armor, 21st century equipment, and advanced local comm systems, "We the People" would rather spend the money on fantastical weaponry that have no place on our battle field. Cold War programs like the F-22 or next generational nuclear submarines are a gross unacceptable event. And when it comes down to cutting "military spending," do you think these programs routinely get cut or do you think the troop goes without body armor?
Another case in point.....where are the Audy Murphy's John Waynes, and Jimmy Stewarts of Hollywood? Where is the military experience in Washington? Today, Hollywood makes a mockery of military duty. If it's not Rambo shooting up an American town over how his government trained him to kill, it's an Oliver Stone film portraying the military as merciless murderers and destroyed souls. Today's Hollywood portrays the troop as a hapless victim of corporate greed that can't cope with combat. Tear jerker films that embarras the troops because it relies on sympathy for the poor ignorant fool that couldnt figure out how to be a noble civilian instead is what sells to "We the People." In Washngton our Commnader-in-Chiefs are those who run as far away as possible from military duty. Commander-in-Chief made sense when General Washington was President. And how about Roosevelt or Eisenhower? Kennedy? How about anybody that has any experience at all with the military to lead the most powerful and responsible military in history? Today we get draft dodgers, Air National Guardsmen on holiday, and confusion. There should be no wonder why they can't figure out where their roles, in regards to the battlefield, end. And "We the People" cheer Hollywood and D.C.
But let's introduce another truth. With education being a primary financial cut to fix government spending, our teachers are just as expendable, aren't they? The difference is that people will defend their teachers...eventually. Vietnam protestors made it fashionable to crap on the military and "Support the Troop" merely offers a cover as they criticize our every move in the media. This is the selfish, backwards, mean, "We the People" I'm talking about. We've become a nation that believes in stupid children and a military to be kicked about.
You seem proud of this.