To be fair to VG, he wrote about who goes to the front line, not just who serves. If people need a "right now" example, Brian seems like a perfectly good one. Seems like one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. Incredibly smart. A nuclear scientist. Dedicated.
naw..VG made a statement and followed that up with several more posts defending his belief. Unlike HCP, I am offended. But I do realize that his opinion is a product of his limited perspective and experience. For that I give him a pass. Others here would rather drag the topic into the weeds.. I did not watch the video from the point where I realized that harm was to be done to helpless animals for no reason. To say that this is exclusive to or symptomatiac of Our military is foolish as well as wrong. Look to the often promoted by OPB web page of Reddit..I have seen posts there of young teens throwing dogs to their death off of bridges..for "lols" Where is your collective outrage on this? Every sub set has a percentage of defective people. That is the reason for Our penal system. For the military it is the UCMJ I have faith that those involved wll be heald accountable, as have those in past actions.
I mostly agree with VG, a monocentric legal system is doomed for failure as well. Central planning is expensive and inefficient.
Those days are long gone. Last US general to die in combat was Keith Ware in Vietnam when his helicopter was shot down in 1968. Major General Keith Lincoln Ware (November 23, 1915 - September 13, 1968) was an United States Army officer, who received the Medal of Honor in World War II, and was killed in action while commanding a division during the Vietnam War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_L._Ware
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