Military Memes

[Wildman]

As most any combat troops who saw service in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you the sound of a A-10 coming in was like the sound of a Uh-1H was to troops in Vietnam.

 

[DEValken]

 

[wigsajumper]

As most any combat troops who saw service in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you the sound of a A-10 coming in was like the sound of a Uh-1H was to troops in Vietnam.

Love that sound. Also Apache coming in at building height helping to solve the grenade rain from roof top.

 

[Wildman]

 

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[C.J. Roberts]

 

[Wildman]

Not a meme but a very powerful statement. Hopefully it will help someone.


If you have a Combat Veteran in your family and you don’t like their moods and behavior around the holidays; please consider these six things:
1.) Your combat veteran has served in countries where people are blessed to receive a tattered pair of shoes or have clean water to drink; he/she no longer lives the “first world illusion” and no longer cares that if you buy one play station you can get a second one for fifty percent off. In fact, they find it hard to appreciate any of the gluttonous commercialism and overindulgence that permeates American holidays. Standing watch, boring as it was, had so much more purpose than going to the mall.
2.) Your Combat Veteran is thankful for the most basic things; not thankful for mega-sales and million dollar parades. They are thankful to be alive; thankful to have survived both the wars far away and the wars they struggle with inside.
3.) Your Combat Veteran is thankful that it wasn't them that got killed, but their celebrations are forever complicated by guilt and loss over those that were. Some of the most thankful times in their life were some of the scariest. Their feelings of thanks and celebration often conjure memories that are equally painful.
4.) Your Combat Veteran is not like you anymore. At some point, for some period of time, their entire life boiled down to just three simple things: when will I eat today, when will I sleep today, and who will I have to kill or will try to kill me today? They are not like you anymore.
5.) Your Combat Veteran does not need a guilt-trip or a lecture; they already feel detached in their grief while others so easily embrace the joy of the season. They need understanding and space; empathy not sympathy.
6.) Your Combat Veteran does love his/her family and is thankful for the many blessings in their life…and they are thankful for you.
To all my brothers and sisters of the uniform, know that we all struggle with one thing or another but as we go into this holiday season, reach out to those you love. You didn't fight alone on the battlefield and we don't have to fight alone at home.

 

[Wildman]

This was the hospital I was saved at in Iraq in 2004.

 

[Zorba]

@Wildman I for one appreciate your posts on these subjects. They help me understand things a bit better that I *really* never will fully. My late father was in WW 2 - Pacific theatre, Navy. I asked him once or twice as a boy if his ship was attacked. He said "Yes", but otherwise wouldn't talk about it - until he was on his deathbed. Japs strafed the ship. He said it was *so* very quiet on deck afterwards, and he sat there with his best buddy and watched him die.

Wow.

So thank you for these insights, and Goddess Bless you and all vets.

 

[Wildman]

@Wildman I for one appreciate your posts on these subjects. They help me understand things a bit better that I *really* never will fully. My late father was in WW 2 - Pacific theatre, Navy. I asked him once or twice as a boy if his ship was attacked. He said "Yes", but otherwise wouldn't talk about it - until he was on his deathbed. Japs strafed the ship. He said it was *so* very quiet on deck afterwards, and he sat there with his best buddy and watched him die.

Wow.

So thank you for these insights, and Goddess Bless you and all vets.

Thank you.

For some reason today has been a SHITTY day for me. And I was looking at FB and came across that picture of the hospital. It means a LOT to those of us who had to be sent there. Honestly it's not something you can ever fully explain to someone who hasn't experienced it. I'm glad I could help.

 

[wigsajumper]

@Wildman I for one appreciate your posts on these subjects. They help me understand things a bit better that I *really* never will fully. My late father was in WW 2 - Pacific theatre, Navy. I asked him once or twice as a boy if his ship was attacked. He said "Yes", but otherwise wouldn't talk about it - until he was on his deathbed. Japs strafed the ship. He said it was *so* very quiet on deck afterwards, and he sat there with his best buddy and watched him die.

Wow.

So thank you for these insights, and Goddess Bless you and all vets.

My boys sometimes ask me why all my Army stories are funny. I tell them because they don't need to hear the other ones yet. Maybe someday but not today. Then I tell them the story of jumping a Humvee.

@Wildman Thanks for the post Battle.

 

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[NDSpeed]

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Can’t say if I’ve seen stuff like that before.

Oh wait I have. And it made its way around the Internet. Lol

 

[Wildman]

 

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