The US military is just a job.

Medically retired after experiencing a hate crime while active duty in the army, almost dying of hypothermia in a defunct unit at fort drum, and overall I can say in my experience you’re completely correct.

The military is literally just a job, and it feels extremely weird for me personally to be worshipped the way I am by my older conservative coworkers. Not only that but they don’t know about the hate crime or the environment I lived in and they absolutely don’t seem to understand that many of my friends and the best NOT-a-shithead-soldiers I knew were immigrants getting their citizenship thru the army.

So event day I work w these older conservative coworkers of mine, they simultaneously are asking me questions like a child in pure wonder, like they’re talking to a fucking holy unicorn or something. And then say also all of these horrible things that apply to either myself, or my buddies bc I’m not an asshole and have no intention of filling these people in on who I am.

It’s weird. I wish they would stop lol.

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