• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yeah less than ten percent is combat trained and tasked and only a tenth of them (so 1% of the total) are combat veterans.

    Most of the people you’ve thanked for their service probably worked at a job that civilians do everyday like fixing things or doing paperwork. Just in a uniform.

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      11 months ago

      My primary job was a logistics account, but that meant I had to inventory high value items at Forward Operating Bases in Iraq and Afghanistan and I drove in a few convoys, only once anything significant happened.