the crazy thing is most military members never even see combat, so they are not at risk. They basically go on a vacation in foreign country, get bonuses for being in "war zone" - which is just a random giant area the military arbitrary decides is special. Then they fuck local hookers, do drugs etc. I have a great article by an actual vietnam vet that speaks about it. Only a minuscule amount of vietnam soldiers even saw combat. Many signed up for 3x additional tours because vietnam was just a fucking orgy for dudes to fuck asian girls and do drugs while having license to terrorize local population. Its a joke. Yes, thank you for catching chlamydia on your 3rd trip to thailand where you were actually stationed to drive a forklift while creampeeing 15 year old thai girls after doing coke of their ass crack in your free time. Ridiculous.
This also debunks a lot of other BS claims that try to portrait vietnam vets as matyrs such as that tons of hobos are former soldiers. As article poitns out, since only like 5% of soldiers even see combat, its kinda hard to imagine that many hobos would have PTSD from being in service lmao.
Worth reading the entire thing multiple times and having it saved in case it gets taken down for some reason. Every single war is exactly like this. 99% bullshit, logistics, driving forklift, wasting time, fucking local girls and terrorizing people, then you go home. Vietnam mythology is insane, such as claims that soldiers were spat on by hippies when coming back all that shit you even see veterans say in yt videos (probably propaganda made by military anyway). None of that happened. It was not some major traumatic hellscape you were tossed into. THEY FUCKING VOLUNTEERED.
Oh yeah another funny one is when people comment on veteran videos shit like "balls of steel" - do they realize they are congratulating the winning side? not the side that had a straw hat for protection instead of body armor, spy planes, guided rockets, years of training and intel etc?YT recommended me this video for example:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuuDWd8SL7A
This is the most heinous shit I have ever listened to when you contextualize what they are doing. This is the equivalent of chatting with your friends while blowing up NPCs in Arma. There is no threat to them, no risk in doing this. Yet all the comments say omg these helicopter pilots had balls of steel. How exactly, they are killing borderline defenseless foot soldiers while circling the area in futuristic killing machines that enable them to see for miles on end, see at fucking night, that aim for them for gods sake. There is no risk. It's like beating up a toddler and then others congratulate you like BALLS OF STEEL MAN THAT TODDLER COULD HAVE BITTEN YOUR ANKLE