I was deployed overseas when I saw the headlines about the Ken Starr report. A local newspaper had all the gritty, nasty details of the report in it.
I think that is the only time in my 20 years of active duty that I was actually angry at the current Commander in Chief.
If I was still on active duty, I would have that same feeling about Trump.
You know, I was pissed at Clinton as well for that. Now, under him, the economy was doing pretty good, relations with overseas nations was decent, and my taxes weren't all that bad. However..................because he lied about getting a bj in the Oval Office, THAT is why I didn't like him. If he had stood up, said, yeah, I made a mistake, but power is a strong aphrodesiac, and she was interested. I've talked it over with my family, and it's a private matter. If he had said that, I would have given him a pass on the bj, but because he kept lying about it, I lost all respect for him. When he came to visit my ship one year, I did everything in my power to assure that I would be on liberty the day he was supposed to show up, and made it happen.
And yeah, a lot of the military is kinda conservative leaning, but that is because of the environment we are in. There are rules that must be followed, procedures that need to be done in exact order, as well as other things that lean conservative.
But, like I said, we have rules we have to follow, and if you don't tell what is really going on up and down the chain, you can possibly get someone killed.
I don't think it's that the military is against the Republicans, I think that the military is against Trump himself for all the lies he has told, all the things he has flip flopped on, a
nd now, shutting down the government so the military doesn't get paid until it reopens.
Trump doesn't embody any kind of military values that I can see, and he's supposed to be the CIC.