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Man, I would come back from those convoys and couldn't wait to get that damned steel pot off. I actually sent it home in my hold baggage with the cool marked up cover, and when it came home, I threw it in the trash. I just don't understand reenactors. Why not join up and get that out of your system.
'Cause when it's out of your system you still have several more years of it to go!Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveHH
I did 35 years and still have my steel. That was after the change to kevlar too. It's never out of your system, I see the faces every night. Most of them friendly. Most of the re-enactors never served and would never serve.
Before I blow a gasket and say something that might get me suspended from posting, can you tell me why they would never serve?Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Many re-enbactors don't want the military discipline. Some have served, such as a friend of mine. He was my roommate on my first tour overseas. Now he's an ammo tech. he's a reenactor for a couple of areas. Most of the ones I've talked too never served and live in a dream world. Why Jim?
In my Civil War re-enacting unit in Illinois, almost all of the guys are prior service (I have three active and four reserve). Several of the younger guys did tours in the sandbox, and the CO was an officer in Desert Shield/Desert storm. In the unit in California, only a couple were vets. On the flip side, of the few WWII re-enactors I know, only one served.
In the US, most men have some service of some sort. I'm in Canada. Most people don't even know someone with service. I think you guys think I'm slamming someone. That isn't so.
I have no problem with anyone who has never served. But I do have a problem with someone who says he will never serve.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
So it seems to me that these people are pretenders. Want to be's.
They dress up and pretend they are something that they are not. Willing to let someone else go through the hardships and spill their blood so they can have the freedoms from it. Try putting some real bullets in those re-enactment guns, feel the anxiety, the fear, the loss of friends that is felt by servicemen and women around the world.
To me that is a disgrace. They disgrace themselves, their country, and their family’s by saying they "will never serve".
But I agree with that Jim...completely! Always felt that way. We called them would be's. Would-be-a-soldier-but-didn't-have-the-parts. If you want to dress like me then...be me!
I was almost 22, married, and had one kid when I enlisted in 1974. I had two more kids while I was in. When I got out of active duty in 1977, the service was NOT family friendly. 18 month unaccompanied tours were the norm in the Army, not the exception. I turned down a promotion to WO1 in CID, and he same in MI when I ETSed. If the service was as family supportive then as it is now, I would have stayed in. I actually like the service. I went directly into Law Enforcement (not really to different) and the reserves.