Oh, and you were in during a peacetime Army.
Things have changed. All of that spending Bush did went to giving our troops more shit than I ever had while I was in, and now Obama is just pissing it all away.
Bush's army was taking Chelsea Manning and Bowe Bergdahl because by 2008, one out of five new enlistees were getting waivers.
Cool Toys are nice, but they aren't a substitute for quality troops.
Oh, Bowe Bergdahl was thrown out of the Coast Guard for psychological reasons in 2006, but the Army signed him right up in 2008.