Veterans Day

[longfisher]

It's about taking care of your crew or buddy's, so that everyone get's home.

What an exceptionally self-centered and provincial view of what military service is, SeaPee. But I'll admit that most enlisted me have a very similar take on the matter.

In point of fact, each serviceperson is an amabassador and a conveyor of our culture to the rest of the world each time one steps upon the soil of a foreign nation. That individual can convey the goodness of our nation's soul or the dark, heart of America represented by so many warmongers. Either impression left with those foreign citizens has repurcussions, the former positive and the latter negative.

There used to be a concept in the U.S. military that our soldiers were "citizen soldiers". This was a very appropriate name for the way American military personnel were taught to fight wars abroad and to interact with foreigners during and after the conflict.

Regrettably, now that American Exceptionalism is so strong in the U.S. that concept has been abandoned. We're the good guys be definition and most of the rest of the world are the bad guys or they're irrelevant and beneath us. The prevailing attitude now and for the last several decades is that our military personnel are "warriors". Implicitly, this leads to mistreatment of foreigners when we're there in military force.

And, just look at the blowback we get for it.

It's time to reinvent the U.S. military so that the warrior ethos is no longer acceptable. It's gotten us nothing but trouble.

LF

[seapower]

Proves to me that you never spent a day in "service". You in no way were accepted to be an Ambassador of any kind. Once I figure out how to use the "ignore" function of this site, you'll have the exclusive priveledge of the use. You are a liar, fraud and most notably a disgrace.
I'm hoping that at some point the owner's of this site will realize that the value of "hit's" is not worth your being here. You Sir, are one patetic human being. You know it, as the rest of know it's the truth. Frank