I hate these hats because I don't know if the boomer wearing it is an actual veteran or a "non-combat veteran".
I hate these hats because I don't know if the boomer wearing it is an actual veteran or a "non-combat veteran".
I hate these hats because I don't know if the boomer wearing it is an actual veteran or a "non-combat veteran".
My Dad was a Marine in Vietnam. Did 3 tours & saw heavy combat. He thinks shit like this gay. Same with Vet license plates.
Your dad sounds cool
All the US vet stuff seems gay to me. I don't really remember enough or like to think about the fighting I was in as a kid, not to sure about killing at all or what I've done but not worth worrying about as it can't be changed anyway but I sure as Hell don't want to wear a fricking stupid hat announcing it
Generally speaking, not always but 90% of the time, the people who actually fought don't advertise it while the /meg/ types who joined intel or maintenance and never stepped outside a FOB are the ones trying to milk social credits out of it.
you love long enough the person that did that shit is long dead and gone and you are just someone else
>live long
None of the above. It's simply a character trait.
This is true. Most dont, I feel like their families make them and slap them of their heads once the become drooling and braindead so in case the get lost they are easier to find. Or they were frickin POGs who filed paperwork during, not in, vietnam for 2 years.
Better memories that don't involve watching your buddies get shot does that.
Damn, how old are you. Those guys are getting up there
I know a couple that were really young going in, but are still obviously getting up there. Lots drank/drugged a lot after getting back but the ones who managed to steer clear of that and stay healthy, focus on family etc are still kickin around ok for old farts
My dad is the same way. He volunteered for Nam, went through some heavy shit, and can't stand this. He hates it because all the guys just want to talk about their glory days. As my dad says, a few years in the jungle didn't define me, the rest of my life did. Move the frick on.
Who cares? They were drafted and had the best years of their life stolen from them. Sure, it's worse if they saw combat but it still horrible even if all they did was fix AC inna FOB. Only veterans I will ever thank for their service are Vietnam and Korea vets (WW2 as well obviously).
you talk like a gay
Brave words, for a keyboard.
they got to shoot m-16s, bbq with their friends, frick asian women with their BWCs, and get discounts at auto parts stores and gunshows with their veterans card, seems based
Most draftees stayed stateside during vietnam.
>ww2 vets
Might need a ouija board for that one home. All the Vietnam vets today are looking like the ww2 vets from a decade ago.
2/3rds of Vietnam vets were volunteers, draftees were usually sent to West Germany or South Korea
The advent of helicopters meant that troops could be sent into combat far more rapidly and at a moment's notice, although it also meant that they were far more likely to survive thanks to the ability to quickly evacuate the wounded.
I wear an Iraq War Vet hat even though I never served lol
I do this too and I'm also morbidly obese. Now, thank me for my service
"What battalion were you in?"
SOF, under captain Price
"The first one"
69th
Seal Team 7, under direct command from Benjamin Ghazi
Salute my wife, normie. She served meatballs at ikea that did more time than you
Thank you Lt. Hassle
family guy did an episode about that
I earned my cape on mars, but I earned my citizenship on malevelon creek sonny
Do helldivers train in mars? Wouldn't a low gravity planet be a terrible place to train?
I forget where training took place but it's literally a 30 minute course before you get flash-frozen and dropped feet first into hell. Survival rate is something like 20%, and average age is 18 point something. You do fight actual bugs who can kill you during training at least.
>noncom vet?
Like what? Medic? Chaplain? Doctors? Mechanics? You want to tell these people weren't actually served?
>limited reading comprehension
>reddit spacing
>esl euro moron
nice
I wonder what will happen to all the hats when they all die. it's not like anybody else would wanna wear that stupid hat.
In about 2040 they will get inexplicably popular with teens.
I forget where I read this, but I saw a statistical analysis of both the teeth-tail ratio and the days of combat per year (so per tour, in Vietnam, roughly) compared for all US Wars and Vietnam had by far the biggest proportion of combat vets, and those had substantially more days in combat than troops from any other war, like not even close. Something like 70 days of combat for a 1 year tour, which is almost as much as an entire 4 year service history for a WW2 veteran. Vietnam was probably the most intense combat, infantry wise (and Navy tac-air wise) of all US wars based on what I read.
I saw a boomer with a vietnam air cav stetson once. If true, he rolled harder than basically 99.9% of veterans.
Stetsons are gay, anon. He probably sucked some good dick, though. I'm talking some toe-curling action.
>actual veteran or a "non-combat veteran".
They're both veterans. Soft-skilled MOS holders are mission critical, even if they are not directly taking part in hostilities. Just look at the Russians and their absolute shitshow of a military. Bully pogs, but don't mistake them for unimportant.
Who the frick delivers packages at 10PM?
nta but Amazon delivers 24/7 where im at which is annoying, they'll say out by 10pm and then drop it off at 2am instead
that company is fricked up, not even medieval serfs used to be so overworked. by a large margin, the average peasant worked 4 hours a day in the 13th century.
>the average peasant worked 4 hours a day in the 13th century.
Yeah but that's primarily manual labor, which is considerably more taxing on the body and was a contributing factor to the drastically lower life expectancy (even discounting infant and maternal mortality, people usually lived 20-30 years shorter than they do now)
i dont think an individual employee is expected to work 24/7 anon, generally they are broken into shifts. i imagine delivering packages after midnight is a lot easier than during the day
Delivery drone here. The folks who deliver stuff after 8pm or so are flex drivers who use their own cars.
I’ve had enough encounters with insane homeowners, and that’s in full Amazon blue, and getting out of the branded van. Flex drivers get shot on a pretty alarming basis.
You could not pay me enough to get shot while trying to deliver someone’s dildo at midnight.
For having a night shift? Or having a work week over 28 hours?
medieval serfs had more free time, even after their own household chores, than anyone does anywhere now
>the average peasant worked 4 hours a day in the 13th century.
iirc, that number only applies to the work they give to their liege and not to the work they needed to do to provide for themselves. What's more, feudalism in medieval Europe tended to have a very heterogeneous character, meaning it's very difficult to come to useful generalizations on anything above a country-wide level as specific obligations tended to be different from fief-to-fief.
Ask your mother
Lel
This is the only one that I wear
I need this unironically
>muh stolen dysfunction
Posers are insufferable.
I wear a ww1 veteran hat sometimes
I had one made when I left the Army for lols. Ill never wear it maybe unless I turn old and senile. It started as a joke between myself and my soldiers. Not a combat veteran..but a vet of the disgusting things that happened there. Id post it but..dunno if I should dox myself
>because I don't know
Just challenge them, mention "stolen valor", say you died in Iraq for their freedoms and threaten to kick thier ass in fromt of thier deaf ugly fat wife who pulls trains. You'll feel better.
Vietnam vets are either unfathomly based or incredibly insufferable. There never seems to be a middle ground. They’re either really cool or they’re still crying about people who were mean to them 50 years ago. The Vietnam War is one of the most interesting conflicts of the modern age and I have nothing but respect for the men who were sent overseas by the US government and bled and died in a land they had no reason to be in and all the bullshit they had to endure, but the boomers who STILL cry about it are insufferable.
I had to do some HVAC service work for a guy that was a tunnel rat. he was a nice person, but I honestly felt like I didn’t even deserve to ask him questions about anything. hats off to anyone that legitimately had to do that shit
I always see the WW2 version of these in huge stacks and in stock at "outdoorsy" stores and I have to wonder who the frick is making them, who the frick ordered them and who the frick is buying enough to justify production?
go to a vfw post in the southeast sometime. these people are unpredictable
I'm gonna get a WW3 veteran hat and start wearing it around. If people question it I'll just start freaking out and screaming "WHAT YEAR IS IT OH GOD"
Kinda related--is it homosexual to wear one of your medals on veteran's day with a suit jacket? That's the prescribed wear, and I don't really care boit wearing service dress at all
My favorite thing is to buy these and stick them in my friend's car, so when fuds see it they yell at them.
I earned this, buddy. You just wouldn't understand, you weren't there...
You don't get those ribbons anymore.
I think the war on terror one you still get, don't you? Since we still have that base in Syria?
We have boots with nothing on their uniforms walking around right now.
Holy shit you're right, that's insane to me that people won't even have the dindu nuffin ribbon on their ASUs