PrayingForWar
Founder's Club Member
I have never been in the military. I show my appreciation by buying the meals of all military and police when I eat out. I simply tell my wait person that I want the tickets of any police or military that I see in the place. Once at our local Tex-Mex place there were 12 military in the restauraut. They were staying at the Holiday Inn next door while training at Camp Swift. My wife thought I was nuts. The bill was over $200. The waitress ratted me out after I told her not to tell who it was. I had to endure trying to explain to each one, as they came over to thank me, that it was I that owed them the thanks. Once I was getting my hair cut and there were 2 from Camp Swift getting ready to leave and I motioned to the cashier that I was going to pay for their haircuts and she ratted me out as well. Dang women. So much for anonymous.
I can personally vouch for RB having that sort of character, and it's people like him that make serving the empire a humbling experience. We can always complain about the pay. I'm sure there's CEO's with 9 figure salaries that could "use a little more". I don't think it's too bad of a living myself. I didn't get into any gunfights, never had anyone shoot directly at me, never got blown up. I went out on MSR Tampa and ASR Jackson more than a lot of guys always expecting the worst, always going home gritty at the worst.
I've seen guys come back from missions with bloody clothes, their 1114's blown all too hell, and go back out the next day in a different one. They didn't complain, they just did their jobs. I've also seen bed wetting oxygen thieves who never passed the wire get disability because they heard a loud noise, or sprained their eyes. It's thanks to these parasites who whined all the way through the deployment and whined their way into the system that there is such an insane buearucracy that can arbitrarily deny compensation for those who need it.
When I went throught reverse SRP it seeed like they wanted me to claim SOMETHING, any sort of ache or pain. I just wanted to go home, because I knew they wouldn't give me anything without some string attached.