the maoster:
Grumpy Dad, the military gave me a certain skill set (anyone hearing Liam Neeson here?). Forget being able to strip and reassemble my personal weapon blah blah blah. It gave me many, many life skills too; it gave me amongst other things total self belief and an almost uncanny ability to not care what those who would detract think!
Who cares what a person whoâs never walked a mile in your shoes thinks? Who cares what those whoâve never served think of those who have and still do? Not me, thatâs for sure.
Iâm not for one minute saying that current/ex forces are better than civilians as that would be ridiculous as clearly there is good and bad in all walks of life, only that being in the forces was taking a different path to those that never served. To provide a balance I do sometimes think that ex forces feel some sort of entitlement that their service should grant them certain civilian privileges when clearly we are no better nor worse than those who didnât serve.
All Iâm trying to say is that you should hold your head high and be proud of what you were, but donât let the fact that you served make you think that you should be treated differently to an ex plumber/sparky/mechanic etc.
And that is about as balanced an argument as youâll find.
Well said.
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I wonât tell tell the one about the âwell balanced manâ at this pointâŚ