>Have a buddy in high school
>spoiled, upper-middle class white guy raised on action movies and Call of Duty
>joins Army at 20 even though he has a 4-year degree thanks to some program at his private school
>Goes in as a grunt because he's an impulsive dipshit and blah blah blah respect, etc.
>does all of this because he says he wants to be a mercenary but it's really about making his dad proud
>Gets sent to Iraq, works in an armory, basically a glorified gun librarian
>He comes back home
>I can't fucking stand my friend now
>Wears his uniform out to bars to get free drinks and hearty handshakes
>Diagnosed with PTSD somehow even though he worked in a fucking warehouse
>Hates muslims now and rants about them loudly
>yesterday I finally snap and tell him that if he hates muslims so much why the fuck did you get on a plane and take a 30 hour flight to go hang out with all of them
>He gets really enraged and starts talking about how he was defending my freedom and this and that
>Say that the Taliban has no fucking air force and no navy and that Bush was full of shit
>Basically tell him he just did it because he didn't want to be seen as a rich bitch anymore but now he's more whiny and spoiled than ever
>he short circuits and flips over the table, spills my beer all over me which is a shame because I was just getting to the part about Israel
I get that our men in uniform are extremely well-trained, but personality-wise, this has to be the worst generation of soldiers this country has ever seen. They join for all the wrong reasons, have zero critical thinking skills, and it seems like their training has actually made them literally retarded, as in dumbed-down.
I hate how my douche friend walks around with a completely undeserved sense of accomplishment and self-righteousness. It used to be you had to get a fucking purple heart to be called a hero and now all these dumb faggots are war heroes the second they sign up.
The US military is seriously a fucking cult.