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I never say thank you for your service

submitted by con77 to whatever 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 20:09:29 ago (+17/-0)     (whatever)

When I was in people gave you shit for being in the service. I remember going into the city in the late 70's and being refused service at bars after they saw my haircut. Now they want to go to the other extreme and get all sloppy with it.

When someone says it to me I simply say thank you. Ive encountered people that expected me to say it and get pissed when I dont.

I figure anyone that expects it probably doesnt rate it. I met a young (25) couple at the range. The guy says to me "shes a veteran". She repeats after him "Im a veteran!".

I could tell they were waiting for me to kiss her ass. They were dejected when I refused to play along. Probably some rear echelon pogue that spent the day kissing Officers asses.

Ive met older guys that expect it too. Nope. Not from me pal.

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[ - ] gimpyoldman 23 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 20:16:16 ago (+23/-0)

The term "veteran" has a different meaning than when I was in the military. In the late 60s-early 70s being a 'veteran' meant that you had served in a combat zone. I didn't consider myself a 'veteran' until I came back from Vietnam. Now anybody that ever put on a uniform is considered a veteran.

[ - ] Fascinus 12 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 20:26:05 ago (+12/-0)

^ This guy gets it.

[ - ] albatrosv15 3 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 06:26:59 ago (+3/-0)

Yet somehow suicide is the leading cause of death for veterans. More than kia&mia combined. Why.

[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 3 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 07:27:49 ago (+3/-0)

Yeah, that's exactly how I've seen it. A veteran was a guy who actually went to war. It wasn't someone like me who chipped paint, greased machinery, and was basically a janitor on a ship during peacetime. Thank me for my service? Ok, well you're welcome for the greased parts on an aircraft carrier that's now rotting away somewhere ready for scrapping, I guess.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 4 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 07:59:25 ago (+4/-0)

Thank you for your lubing, sailor!

[ - ] Autismo 0 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 22:16:31 ago (+2/-2)

you're still a jew slave

[ - ] Fascinus 10 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 20:12:34 ago (+10/-0)

Have you ever been in a position where you straight-up needed recognition like that, to the point of pandering for it?

I can't relate.

I imagine you can't either.

[ - ] con77 [op] 4 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:39:29 ago (+4/-0)

Hell no

[ - ] Fascinus 3 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:43:36 ago (+3/-0)

You know, it's funny.

Looking back, it seems natural that you'd respond given that I posed this as a direct question and, at the time, I assumed it would be rhetorical; we already knew what the answer would be :)

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 8 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 21:57:36 ago (+8/-0)

The place that I work is covered with WW2 memorabilia. Seriously, there's a weremacht helmet that might just disappear anyway. A lot of vets ask if we have a discount, and the answer is no. Every once in a while it's a grizzled Vietnam war vet, they don't ask and I don't charge them. I'm not thankful for their service, I'm fuckin sorry for their sacrifice. I know, I didn't draft them. It's fuckin fucked up that they had to watch friends die in a proxy war for literally no fuckin reason.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 6 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:05:18 ago (+6/-0)

Yeah, the Vietnam vets are the last remaining group I have any respect for.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 5 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 00:39:15 ago (+5/-0)

My uncle died over there, and I've read the letters he sent in the months leading up to it. It's fuckin dark. My mom will tell you she's almost glad he didn't come home. Fucked up six ways to Sunday.

[ - ] NukeAmerica 7 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 22:12:27 ago (+7/-0)

I tell vets "Thank you for serving Israel". I have been in three fights now because of this.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 2 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 08:01:56 ago (+2/-0)

The initial confused look is always great!

[ - ] PhantomXLII 5 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 21:12:35 ago (+5/-0)

So the woman was impersonating a man of the armed forces?

Should've fucking clocked the bitch for stolen valor.

[ - ] con77 [op] 5 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:43:48 ago (+5/-0)

Fucking bitch was preening with expectation of me praising her.
She left disappointed

[ - ] deleted 6 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 04:29:49 ago (+6/-0)

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[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 3 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 07:29:22 ago (+3/-0)

Nice

[ - ] JudyStroyer 2 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 08:06:01 ago (+2/-0)

Should have mockingly pointed at her and laughed out loud, then followed it up with a “whatever you say ‘soldier’” and use the air quotes when you say it.

[ - ] Peleg 1 point 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 08:25:32 ago (+1/-0)

Naw.
Should have said, "oh, so you was a cum catcher for the fighting men! Stress reliever, okay."

[ - ] con77 [op] 1 point 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 15:40:26 ago (+1/-0)

officers whore

[ - ] Eligrey 4 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 21:19:37 ago (+4/-0)

I'm glad you don't. I didn't join for some friggin altruistic cause to "fight for my country". That shit went out the window for me during the Vietnam war. They didn't send men to the meat grinder for America in that war.

I've since learned we didn't send men to the meat grinder for America in a whole bunch of wars.

Nobody needs a thank you. We need to eliminate these fucking dual citizen scumbags in our government.

[ - ] Kozel 4 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 20:54:25 ago (+4/-0)

I went to a grocery store with my ex after we finished a hike. I was wearing woodland camouflage pants and some type of shirt. Some random dude thanked me for my service. We both busted out laughing.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 4 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:03:33 ago (+4/-0)

I was at the gym with a digital camo duffel bag I got for my $40 to the NRA and some dude asked me if I was in the army. I laughed and said “they wouldn’t have me”.

[ - ] SumerBreeze 3 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:18:09 ago (+3/-0)*

“Thank you for risking your lives to protect kikes that want you dead and for killing brownies - whose angry relatives pledge to seek vengeance and invade our lands and our daughters. Our freedoms are slowly disappearing every day, and you got back safely home to be greeted with an even tighter noose around your neck.”

imagine saying that with enthusiasm and a sincere smile. we have become a masochistic nation.

[ - ] deleted 3 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 22:47:51 ago (+3/-0)

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[ - ] drhitler 3 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 22:16:55 ago (+3/-0)

Thank you for helping the USSR take Eastern Europe, the Polish and Hungarian people are forever grateful for the communist enrichment.

[ - ] Her0n 2 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 08:01:44 ago (+2/-0)

Good, I'd rather forget I was ever in that shitstorm.

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 3 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 20:28:30 ago (+3/-0)

I ask'em right to their face how it feels being tricked to fight for israel against jewish enemies.

[ - ] Gowithit 4 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 21:39:52 ago (+4/-0)

Thats kind of fucked. Warn the ones joining sure but to the ones that couldnt have known back then?

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 2 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 21:49:56 ago (+2/-0)

It usually goes well and is a good ice breaker and opens discussion. I'm not hardcore about it or anything like that.

[ - ] Gowithit 2 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 21:56:04 ago (+2/-0)

I was just thinking how any of the ones I know would react. Insane tempers. Ones pretty cool but majority? whoo, I would pay to watch you say it to them.

[ - ] HonkyMcNiggerSpic 3 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:54:32 ago (+3/-0)

I have a way with people. Some do get huffy puffy about it but I would never harm them so its easy for me to deescalate. Either way, as I've learned over the years, no matter if I show them the truth, the brainwashing is so deep they will keep believing bullshit like they never heard the truth at all. Its not old boomers I want to reach, its young folks.

[ - ] Gowithit 1 point 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 00:56:47 ago (+1/-0)

You're passing up on a cool $25 here.

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 00:25:24 ago (+2/-0)

She repeats after him "Im a veteran!".

"What was your interest in serving the satanic pedophile regime?"

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 2 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 23:00:34 ago (+2/-0)

What, thank them for a job they chose, a killer benefit package and retirement? We all make choices. No veteran discounts at my store either.

[ - ] RMGoetbbels 2 points 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 21:53:49 ago (+3/-1)

Veteran to me means the same as welfare nigger.

Now wait, before you get all indignant about it hear me out. It a guaranteed job with low expectations for most people, at least after basic. Don't get me wrong, it has it's place as a valuable asset where the dregs of society can become upwardly mobile and trained to do monkey work whereas they'd have trouble in the real world gaining that skill.

Again, don't get me wrong, it's right for some people and it instills a work ethic of sorts, a bare minimum one that they wouldn't be able to attain on their own.

So at the end of the day, while I'm out there clawing to survive some schmuck is getting gubmint munny and housing for following directions all under the guise of being patriotic. Welfare niggers just the same.

- I've worked with a lot of "veterans" and I know because they are always the first to tell me they are "veterans"......but they don't have to because....I can see it in the way they apply themselves to their work. NIGGERS.

[ - ] PrincessRobotBubblegum 1 point 6 monthsNov 11, 2023 22:09:31 ago (+2/-1)*

In the mid-80’s, before the murder of m’buddy & boss, Bill Casey (R.I.P.), and that whole Iran/Contra bullshit PsyOp diversion, etcetera; while serving with Army MOS 19A3 (Sherman Tank Commander), First Armor Training Brigade, Fort Knox; after having opted to go into military intelligence, Stargate Project (not the freaky hippies in a leaky shack debunk hoax); and on an unusual predawn breakfast at the Marine mess; while preparing to eat m’waffles & eggs & grits: A packet of syrup did not open properly, exploding all over my BDU; which could not be cleaned until we got back to the billets (the actual billets used as Paris Island in Full Metal Jacket):

Ain’t nothing worse than a sticky BDU.

So don’t tell me I ain’t been in the shit!

R.I.P. General George Armstrong Custer.
R.I.P. General George Patton.
R.I.P. Fort Ord.

R.I.P. that chode who fell off that thing & died:
“¡ Hasta la vista, Sandanista!”
(That was m’catch phrase.)

“Bow! Wow! Wow!”
(That’s m’dog impersonation.)

“Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!”
(That’s m’other dog impersonation.)

“Where We Go One, We Go All!”
(That’s m’Q impersonation.)

…

Lost m’train of thought.

…

Keep Calm and Carry On.

[ - ] con77 [op] 0 points 6 monthsNov 12, 2023 15:53:09 ago (+0/-0)

I was in a winter storm in the Bering Sea. 55 ft waves. minus 75f windchill. ships capsized in that storm.

I busted smugglers. I carried a 12 guage and a .45. no m16 because if it was taken from me they could have strafed the helo and patrol boat.

I jumped from the semi inflatable onboard the smugglers boat by myself twice because they offered resistance and command asked me to in order to reduce risk to my crew.

The crew admired me for that. The Chief of my patrol boat told my D Day veteran stepdad that "he's got guts" referring to me.