I joined the Air Force when I was 25, it was my choice, I was a volunteer and I joined as an officer candidate so it's not like I faced much hardship. You don't need to thank me for my service as my service was my choice. I had some good assignments and I served in a hell hole or two. I still feel the Air Force did far more for me than I was able to do for it. If you want to honor or thank me that's okay but I would rather you put that time in effort into holding our elected officials responsible for three things 1- honor the commitments the government made when I, and anyone else joined, this means fix the VA and remove the politics from it, hold VA employees accountable for their decisions and following the rule of law and make sure they're removed from the VA if their actions are unlawful or aren't in the best interest of the veteran. 2-Don't use the military as a political instrument, if you give us an assignment make it clear and concise and don't tie our hands by limiting our options while in the field, or to put it another way give us an objective and your support and turn us loose. 3- Aggressively pursue action against military officers and commands that serve them selves and not the mission and the troops serving under them. if a senior officer plays hard and fast with the rules so they look good that officer needs to be removed from service. One of the major concepts that are drilled into officer candidates is professionalism, and that means it's about the mission and your troops and not about you. Our enlisted and junior officer corp deserves leadership that is professional and committed to them and the missions they're tasked with and we shouldn't be used merely as tools or pawns to get the commander another promotion.
Now I'll get down off my soapbox, yes I took my wife out to dinner last night and we went to Applebee's and yes they had a promotion where I ate free (choices from a limited menu) and to top it off they came by and gave me a $5.00 gift card. What I found interesting is their food was significantly better than the last time I was there and maybe we'll start eating there more often. Did they have to do this -NO do I feel entitled, or that they owe this to me- NO. But it was nice that a major restaurant chain like Applebee's would do something like this and the staff at the restaurant last night acted like they were genuinely glad to serve us. That might make some people understand that freedom isn't free and many give some or all to preserve our freedom.
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