Worked as a civilian (GS) for the army for 30 year. This is pretty much SOP.
Everyone talks about honoring soldiers, but in every conflict they are used and discarded, like a used tissue. They come back with life long illness and are just abandoned.
It’s despicable, but is not new. No administration wants to pay the full bill for their wars.
Accurate. We “have no idea what gulf war syndrome is”.
Havana syndrome? Eh it’s not worth looking into.
“PTSD? Sounds like pussy syndrome to me.”
They don’t give a fuck about soldiers beyond the “respect”. Very few of my coworkers know that I’m a veteran. I don’t want questions that they want to ask, and I definitely don’t want some conservative mfer to thank me for my service. I seriously hate that shit. I didn’t do anything that makes you more safe.
They acknowledge that people go places and do stuff that “messes them up” but refuse to even attempt understanding mental health. “My cousin came back crazy, he won’t talk about what they did to him” without realizing that “they” is the system of continuous wars for wartime experience and the military industrial complex’s profits, despite them engineering for a war that doesn’t exist.
God, I hate the “Thank you for your service” bullshit. I get it all the time and I wasn’t even enlisted. Especially from the conservatives, who thank you, then vote to cut benefits. It’s like fingers down a chalk board.
You hit the nail on the head really. I lived with an old UK Marine for two years up until recently and I 100% agree that no-one came back the same but also none of them are really able to adapt back to civilian life because, as you say, they are discarded by the system rather than been given the help they need.
Literally a made up thing, no medical organization says it’s real. PTSD is. But not something made up by people hungover and claiming it’s a secret weapon.
Worked as a civilian (GS) for the army for 30 year. This is pretty much SOP.
Everyone talks about honoring soldiers, but in every conflict they are used and discarded, like a used tissue. They come back with life long illness and are just abandoned.
It’s despicable, but is not new. No administration wants to pay the full bill for their wars.
Accurate. We “have no idea what gulf war syndrome is”.
Havana syndrome? Eh it’s not worth looking into.
“PTSD? Sounds like pussy syndrome to me.”
They don’t give a fuck about soldiers beyond the “respect”. Very few of my coworkers know that I’m a veteran. I don’t want questions that they want to ask, and I definitely don’t want some conservative mfer to thank me for my service. I seriously hate that shit. I didn’t do anything that makes you more safe.
They acknowledge that people go places and do stuff that “messes them up” but refuse to even attempt understanding mental health. “My cousin came back crazy, he won’t talk about what they did to him” without realizing that “they” is the system of continuous wars for wartime experience and the military industrial complex’s profits, despite them engineering for a war that doesn’t exist.
God, I hate the “Thank you for your service” bullshit. I get it all the time and I wasn’t even enlisted. Especially from the conservatives, who thank you, then vote to cut benefits. It’s like fingers down a chalk board.
i found out that the term is performative politics.
This is why I hate it. They aren’t sincere and it shows, it even comes across in their tone and body language.
You hit the nail on the head really. I lived with an old UK Marine for two years up until recently and I 100% agree that no-one came back the same but also none of them are really able to adapt back to civilian life because, as you say, they are discarded by the system rather than been given the help they need.
It is quite saddening to see.
That’s reserved for CIA operatives willing and able to convert the guilt of their actions into projection of an imagined enemy.
but also:
It’s just Cicadas.
Havana syndrome, spies and diplomats getting drunk on the job and claiming it’s a new weapon by Cuba that no one has proof to.
I recently got called a Russian spy because I linked wikipedia saying it didn’t exist.
Hangover + cicadas = nefarious communist plot and wunderwaffe
Those communists are so stupid but also so smart to invent new weapons and diseases beyond all scientific understanding.
The enemy is weak and strong.
Literally a made up thing, no medical organization says it’s real. PTSD is. But not something made up by people hungover and claiming it’s a secret weapon.
Only 18% of vets get the full benefits they’re entitled to. And that statistic was pre-Trump2