Nice one. I remember going to the mess hall in 2005 and wondering if we’d get called to attention to hear the name of another guy read off at the start of breakfast. Or in 2010, wondering how many of my friends would get killed (wound up being four that year). There are, frankly, too many folks I know whose faces are frozen in their early-mid 20’s from almost 20 years of continuous conflict. To be honest, I’m really glad that the previous Administration didn’t get some of its more hawkish desires fulfilled, because I’m pretty sick of hearing about guys getting killed or disabled for (who knows at this point). So yeah, guess I’ll go worry about other stuff.

I look forward to folks getting back to griping about MIA flying, etc., instead of this ridiculous back and forth.