Thank you for your service Kurt Schlichter! You read about generals bemoaning how the American people are removed and remote from their military, the proverbial civil/military divide, but then these same generals turn around and ensure that during the one time American citizens used to get to interact with our young troops they now can’t. I would fly in my camo uniform up to drill in Sacramento every month – yeah, being a reservist cost me about $600 a month for flights, a car and a room, which is surprisingly common among our dedicated citizen-soldiers. But then last March, the geniuses at the Pentagon decided that flying in ACUs didn’t look pretty and changed the uniform regulation to prohibit it with limited exceptions. Remember how troopers used to walk through airports and feel the appreciation of the American people? That’s mostly over. Maybe the brass was afraid that – God forbid – a civilian might buy one of our warfighters a Coors. There’s your peacetime Army mentality – it’s easier to ban the whole thing than risk a minor “incident.”
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:40:07 +0000
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