The part I think about a lot is the assumption by so many that all of those GWOT veterans are MAGA. We had a huge influx of liberal volunteers who saw us feeding kids, building schools, and helping locals. This is why I know what's going on at VA faster than Dougie Fresh the SecVA.
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Drew Turner
I sit here presunrise thinking about things & I realized that in the last 20 years our government basically taught a large portion of the 3 million veterans who were part of GWOT operations since 9/11 how to be insurgents.
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A dozen years in uniform & civil service across D & R admins, another decade in defense industry, and I’ve never voted R once my entire life.
But I also know the single most effective and cost-efficient countermeasure against a violent religious extremist is a warhead on a forehead.
Foreign and domestic.
It was my 20+ years of service that actually flipped me from R to D. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm starting to understand how the Vietnam Vets felt. Alone and on my own in my own country.
The important thing is that no one feels like they're alone. If anyone makes a righteous stand in a crucial moment, we all have to jump in. And we have to make it known now that we will.
There are a few common denominators, which I shan’t list here.
If he gave a military order against Americans would it be followed