There's veterans and "veterans". There's dudes that actually did important shit, and the rear echelon logistics faggots that bitch and moan about doing their jobs and are the ones that make scenes in restaurants and other places demanding free shit because "they served they cawntree". It's never the combat dudes doing that shit.

Most of the military is deskjobs. Even then the military is majority conservative and the job does suck so appreciating that they do it is nice, but the blind hero worship has always been exaggerated and stupid.