Here's the easiest solution, although I'm sure Dustin won't agree: as noted by others above, we're ALL vets. Getting into pissing contests about whose service is "superior" is both stupid and pointless. I could care less whether a vet served just one hitch, Active or Reserve, or was a "lifer". Anyone who served in the last half century or so did so voluntarily. And once you raise your hand and take the oath, your fate--whether you end up in Iraq or Afghanistan, or never get any further than the motor pool at Ft. Leonard Wood or the local National Guard armory--is out of your hands. It's a blank check to Uncle Sam that we ALL signed, and those who aren't vets didn't sign. The VA is there for all of us. A pension and Tricare For Life is there for all of us who put in 20 good years.
Your attitude, Dustin, does nothing but provoke rivalry along the lines of whose is bigger. You obviously think yours is . . . and you're welcome to that opinion. But you're in the same boat with all the rest of us . . . even though you'd like to pick and choose which passengers to toss overboard. Can't imagine how you missed the "One Army" concept. Guys like you are why the Pentagon had to put out the word to knock off the "I'm Active so I'm superior" BS. But there are always those who think it's a good idea to point out our differences and their superiority. We're all VETS. Period. End of story.
