Army Vet Who Was Shot 13 Times Gives Trump Protesters a Dose of Reality on How 'Loyalty' Works in...

yeah, he sure earned that Silver Star.

COL John McClellan - you are welcome to your opinion, as am I. The terms basement dwelling and snowflake was aimed at those who have not served but are the ones who choose to play "armchair quarterback" and take advantage of the freedoms but not take part in providing the freedoms themselves. I still stand by my opinion, I still stand behind this soldier and I firmly stand with our POTUS.

COL John McClellan - And when you were a Lieutenant or even as a Major, did you participate in any derogatory jody calls, such as you can't spell wimp without an MP? If you did and did not correct it, then you are one to talk about professionalism?

Well, many of those were gone even when I started ('82) but yes, certainly. However I'd draw a distinction between the mostly good-natured (hard-edged, perhaps) competitive ribbing that goes on between branches or services - within the context of the military, and what I'm seeing here - which is aimed at whole segments of our civilian population, those we volunteered to serve and protect. SSG Robert Webster -

COL John McClellan - As an Engineer officer, you may know who MG (R) Dorian T. Anderson is/was. He was my and GEN Daniel B. Allyn's Company Commander in 1982. I think that both of them would disagree with your statement about the jody calls and more than hard-edged competitive ribbings (more like property damaging conflicts) of the period. You also seem to have forgotten the 'military mile' outside of the gates of most US military installations of the time to what they are like today. But then you seem to believe as shown by your statements that we (active, retired, and veteran) do not have the same rights and privileges as the rest of the US and by extension world population. We (our US military community) not only volunteered to serve and protect others but ourselves and our prosperity as well. Though the terms that you are railing about are derogatory, you should know as well as I do that they are not as despicable as you would have us believe by saying they are unprofessional. What is hilarious to me is that on the basement dweller term, I seem to fit that to a T, except it is not in my mother's basement, it is my own. (One caveat on that I am not a computer game player.)(To be honest, I do not think that my mother's basement would fit the term anyway, since it is a converted root cellar, and the house is too far away from a Central Office to have even a decent quality of fast internet service.) One other thing - We do try not to throw a member of our community under the bus in public; like the Democratic Party did to Representative Tulsi Gabbard, or the Republican Party did with Representative Beth Fukumoto.