I did 28 years in the Army started when the Soviets were still kind of a thing, left after my 3rd deployment to Afghanistan after my best friend from high school, another lifer but a Marine, bought the farm. I damn near caught a conduct unbecoming when OEF launched and I called into question the historical fallacy of occupation of an area that not even Genghis Khan could take nor the Russians and their total war approach. And I did so in private with utmost discretion (never question a superior in front of enlisted). And from then on, especially after Tillman, the bullshit piled up so fast you needed a mining excavator to keep at neck depth.
I did 28 years in the Army started when the Soviets were still kind of a thing, left after my 3rd deployment to Afghanistan after my best friend from high school, another lifer but a Marine, bought the farm. I damn near caught a conduct unbecoming when OEF launched and I called into question the historical fallacy of occupation of an area that not even Genghis Khan could take nor the Russians and their total war approach. And I did so in private with utmost discretion (never question a superior in front of enlisted). And from then on, especially after Tillman, the bullshit piled up so fast you needed a mining excavator to keep at neck depth.