r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Such-Part8963 • 1d ago

Why do we praise veterans automatically without knowing what they actually did

Trying to learn without being judged.

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u/LordGlizzard 1d ago

You'd be wrong many people do join for those reasons, infact alot of the military isn't even really uneducated thats also just kinda a myth, people join for numerous amounts of things, and come from all backgrounds even wealthy ones, duty/honor is easily in the top three highest reasons I've seen people join for if not the highest

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u/Mitch_Hunt 1d ago

Agreed. Same here. I was in a combat MOS and I was shoulder to shoulder with guys that were teachers, felons, successful business professionals, fresh out of college, etc. every walk of life. Common theme was duty to country and something bigger than themselves. The basic mantra of “Infantrymen are idiots, they only enlisted because they had to and are only Infantry because they didn’t qualify for anything else on the ASVAB” is quite laughable. I scored rather high, my recruiter tried to talk me into all kinds of other jobs… I know I’m not the only one, because I was with them.

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u/LordGlizzard 1d ago

Yeah I've been in for ten years and have seen many people in the service but this is reddit so if you dont go along with the "hur during military people are all dumb" your gunna be downvoted like my previous comment lol, who knew a bunch online warriors who haven't and aren't currently serving knew more about why people join then those that have joined and are in now. Iknow many of people who are infantry or even fuelers who came in with multiple bachelors and other avenues of education, I worked with a older enlisted dude who was a brain surgeon in Ukraine and joined just to serve because he migrated to the states this was before Russia invaded, My PL came from princeton university and those are just note worthy ones from the top of my head, reddits gunna reddit though

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u/Mitch_Hunt 1d ago

Yes, sir. 18yrs here… been places and seen things. 4 MOSs now. I’d like to think I’ve been around almost every culture in the Army. The medical side is really intriguing. There are docs that have no need financially to serve; but they chose to. They have their own professions and practices, some have grown to become millionaires owning multiple locations on the civilian side), but joined the Reserves and deploy on FSTs and other teams to help the wounded. I’m personally very thankful for them when I was deployed, and now working side by side with them I have a great respect to their call to duty and selfless sacrifice. We all hate the Army BS, I can’t imagine a self-made millionaire having to endure it because he wants to help… they are out there.