So true!

True.. :)

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon"
15 July 1815. To the captain of HMS Bellerophon.
HMS Bellerophon carried Napoleon from the Ile d'Aix to Plymouth
before he was transferred to the HMS Northumberland and taken into exile on St Helena.
http://www.military-quotes.com/Napoleon.htm
 
It is even more sad than than you think. In one of the other threads a young man was lamenting about having a hard time deciding which branch of the military he was going to join.

One of his deciding factors was being able to go to an "active" branch which was "active" on the battle field. Reading between the lines it almost sounded like he was interest in winning a lot of "chest lettuce".

NOW THAT"S WHAT I CALL SAD.
 
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur


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Should'nt blame them, but blame the culture that gives them out like confetti. As we say in the British Army "Its not the beret that makes the man, but the man that makes the beret".
 
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