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Originally Posted by Earl of Bronze
Oh ! So while you sit in your house, safe and warm, while other men and women are wearing the uniform, leaving their loved ones behind, and getting their limbs blown off, comming home with PTSD after seeing their mates immolated, or, getting slotted by some ****** assed > insert nationality of Muj fighter here <. And yet you are getting annoyed that young men, and women, are getting compensated for the loss of limbs, being maimed, and dying. So that gutless, whining turds like you can gob off on internet forums about how they are such a waste of money.... Good thing we dont have to rely on you to keep civilization from going down the toilet any faster than it is....
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I agree with him to an extent, although not on the compensation issue, that in all of these ideas there is a subtext that those in the military should be elevated to some higher form of citizenry. Discounted travel, free entry to football matches, discounts in stores, priority for government services and so on are all suggestions made in this, and other, topics.
There are plenty of other people who contribute massively to society. Police, Doctors and Nurses, Firemen, Teachers. Yet the amount of people that seem to think that the army are alone in their status is irritating.