Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
You can't really fail to notice the particular liberal talking point of how they're just trying to keep us here, safe and with our families while the evil conservatives are trying to force us to go die for their oil. You can't fail to see the logic of it. It does sound nice in theory.
Missing time with your family sucks. I watched fathers cry in basic training over missing their son's first steps or their daughter's first word. It's definitely more comfortable here in the States than the desert. Here the worst that's going to happen is some liberal hippy will get in your face and demand you personally end the war and give him money for his next hit. There the worst that could happen is that the liberal hippy's misunderstood terrorist friends will pull a VBIED up beside your tent and kill everyone in the FOB while you sleep.
However, despite all of that, I've yet to see a single military member actually want to give up the fight and go home. I've only seen one person fail to jump at the chance for a deployment. (My branch deploys individually rather than in units. You can probably guess which it is.) As happens so often, the reality I see every day just doesn't mesh with what they tell me I see. Do they just fail to realize that, if we didn't believe in what we're doing, then we wouldn't be here? Or are they hoping we'll put our petty personal desires over the responsibilities we signed up for? I honestly don't get it.
Missing time with your family sucks. I watched fathers cry in basic training over missing their son's first steps or their daughter's first word. It's definitely more comfortable here in the States than the desert. Here the worst that's going to happen is some liberal hippy will get in your face and demand you personally end the war and give him money for his next hit. There the worst that could happen is that the liberal hippy's misunderstood terrorist friends will pull a VBIED up beside your tent and kill everyone in the FOB while you sleep.
However, despite all of that, I've yet to see a single military member actually want to give up the fight and go home. I've only seen one person fail to jump at the chance for a deployment. (My branch deploys individually rather than in units. You can probably guess which it is.) As happens so often, the reality I see every day just doesn't mesh with what they tell me I see. Do they just fail to realize that, if we didn't believe in what we're doing, then we wouldn't be here? Or are they hoping we'll put our petty personal desires over the responsibilities we signed up for? I honestly don't get it.