Gents, it just a simple honor to serve, the experience is great for a young person if they come out in one piece and still breathing. I don't see a need to be thanked, just left alone, and treated like everyone else, i.e. when a vet requires VA medical help he should at least get treated as well as a poor person on government assistance (I have never used the VA services even though I am eligible, my son does and has been treated very well in NYC no less). I just find it disingenuous when so many profess so much thanks and so little outrage is apparent when hundreds if not thousands of those that we are so thankful for are left to die waiting in fictitious lines at the VA while the staff gets millions in bonuses. The level of outrage and clamoring for fixes for these guys was underwhelming and telling, so please save your fake "thanks", I don't want to hear it and you probably only say it to make your self feel better deep back in your subconscious somewhere. The DI comment above was just a provoke on my part but it is standard fare for cruits to be told this through their time in the military, I find their warnings mostly true.
