"Things People In The Military Hate About Civilians" Topic

"What do members of the military think about civilians? When a person joins the military they go from an average Joe to a beast ready for combat. So it's understandable that there is a friction between military life and civilian life because they are so different. These 17 military are revealing their brutally honest opinions about civilians. And it's not good as you'll see from these confessions…"

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Armand

When a person joins the military they go from an average Joe to a beast ready for combat.

And the person who wrote this is going to produce an unbiased, well referenced paper?

In a pig's **** they will.

I fail to see how this is helpful at all.

Dal Galvan – Oh, come on … he asserts that those are actual quotes from less than one percent of one percent of US active duty (grossly underestimating the denominator). What could be more representative than that?

etotheipi, I doubt he even bothered to ask anyone any questions to reach his conclusions. I believe the opinion came first and then the story to back it up, like similar "research" in the late 60's and 70's. As for representative sampling, he probably wouldn't even understand what "representative" meant, when used in that context.

I don't normally criticize people for what they say, however, those are some of the stupidest quotes that I have ever read and if they actually come from military/ex-military, they are troubling.

I didn't serve, however, I have never heard one of my veteran friends say anything like that. There are more than a few (Vietnam vets) who were not happy with how they were treated after they returned home. That said, they never grouped all civilians in that class.

There are some nuggets of truth buried in the hyperbole but, no, I've never heard this from any of the vets I know,

My attitude towards civilians varied depending on time frame. College days and earlier most civilians were ok. Since he was a MSG in the NG, most of Dads friends were in NG or veterans. Collage days were high friction due to me in ROTC and the Vietnam War. One fraternity painted our Sherman pink and we retaliated with throwing CS under their house.
This also the time that my unit marched in a Veterans Day parade and had eggs thrown at us.
While in the military civilians were of no concern.
Afterwards as a veteran, I tried to assimilate but there were still notable differences.

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Armand

I served, and lived in 3 base towns. Rantoul(Chanute AFB) treated military pretty well, and with good reason, as the base was the goose that laid the golden egg, AND there was a significant chunk of the community and its leaders being retired military. San Antonio was also a great place to be if you were military. But Minot ND was the pits. I lived there both in and out of uniform and the way the community treated was a disgrace. I've never seen a nastier and more venal mess of money-grubbing parasites (and I live in a community with a major university, so leeching off the transient population was nothing new).Easy to see how some veterans and active duty have had their perceptions shaped by dealing with scumbag business people or people treating service members like crap. But boy, they sure liked our money.

Thanks also…

Armand