I've seen at least 5 regulars here say they are or were part of the American military. What's up with that?
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I think it's worth remembering that yes, those people got out, but they still have their training, experience, and a newfound resentment for the federal government. Pretty much every American vet I know would undoubtedly be a rebel if the rubber hit the road again. Those people are still on the chessboard.
If vets weren't resentful of the feds during their service, they will after they interact with the US Department of Veteran Affairs. It's yet to top the "plz no suicide kthx" memo after the fall of Afghanistan under Biden.
I posted that one here. I couldn't believe that someone actually decided to send that.
The DVA hasn't reach Canadian levels of bad yet then? That's something
Yeah the vets here in Aus are treated abysmally too. There are a bunch of different pensions and stuff for free/discounted therapy in our semi socialist system. Let's say the vet wants physio and speech path, for a war wound affecting the face. NDIS (properly disabled people under 65) and medicare and aged-medicare/myagedcare are the big 3, and some private health insurance cases too. That there is 90% of their caseload, with another 8% being nominally private, getting some documentation to get onto the NDIS or something. DVA you rarely see, its that final 2% you don't often taketake. But when you do, the clinic either rejects it for it being so bad of a deal for them, pennies, compared to the main pensions and requiring yet more paperwork for something you rarely work with, politely suggest they go and look into getting onto one of the others before you'll see em, or take it on essentially out of charity/patriotism.
Yeah, it seems like a losing move. Now you have a bunch of people with knowledge and experience and no faith in the government, are capable of training others, and now they have a head start because they can start training their groups early instead of whenever they defect. Even if you don't like them, surely keeping them at least placated would be the winning strategy?
Rusted tools are to be discarded, not placated.
The rusted tools will turn neutral lumps of metal into new shiny tools pointed against them. Their new plastic tools wont amount to anything.