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If you pushed paper and never saw any actual combat I don't think you should get the same level of respect as a guy standing up and shooting while being shot at.

I hung out with an old vet from Vietnam who was so fucking annoying turns out he was a pencil pusher he was on full disability getting 3k a year paying no property tax.. for 3 or 4 years of pencil pushing

If you pushed paper and never saw any actual combat I don't think you should get the same level of respect as a guy standing up and shooting while being shot at. I hung out with an old vet from Vietnam who was so fucking annoying turns out he was a pencil pusher he was on full disability getting 3k a year paying no property tax.. for 3 or 4 years of pencil pushing

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I just had multiple bad experience with vets getting free shit bragging about it and they never did shit.

Some people are just loudmouth braggarts. Even if they were on the frontlines or were never in the army you'd still have reason to hate them because they'd just be bragging about some other bullshit.

As for paper-pushers, a war is won through supporting roles. Doesn't matter how fortified or badass your frontlines are, if they're not supported logistically they will collapse. There's a reason that when you look at wars from the 1600's it's like "King Jeff, 3 of his buddies and 27 peasants, vs King Pierre, 5 of his buddies, 9 peasants and14 mercenaries"

I recall a figure during the Bush administration that it cost approximately $750,000 to train a single soldier and deploy them to Afghanistan. Assuming only 1/3 of that is staffing costs, that's $250,000 worth of time and effort paper-pushers spend to get that soldier to Afghanistan.