This Overprotective Army Mom is About to Make Her Son's Life a Load Worse

I read this on Facebook a week or so ago. If it is true, I hope the Mother called like she said she was going to do! Her little cupcake needs a good wake up call, because they obviously did not get it in training! If it is satire, I believe it is spot on in regards to the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality.
I came in in '82, we still had quite a few Vietnam Veterans with combat patches. Never once did I, or any of the young guys I served with, feel alienated or left out! We held those guys in very high regard, hung on every word and action they felt inclined to share with us. We we snot nosed punks? Somewhat, yes, but respectful. We knew our place in the food chain and worked to be invisible to those higher up, with bigger teeth!

This something that my mother would have done........and sadly she did do something somewhat on the lines of this back in the day when I was at FT Irwin......needless to say my Squad Leader and Platoon Sergeant were laughing their butts off.

I really hope this conversation was a joke. But I know from experience it probably wasn't. When I was overseas, I didn't contact my family for a few months because I was busy. My mother called a Senator and complained. I spent several conversations trying to explain the concept of "shit rolls downhill."

I never, not once, felt entitled to a combat patch. I know that whatever goes next to the American flag on the right sleeve is a place of honor and not handed out like unit patches. I went through a lot to get both of mine and I wouldn't trade away either of them because of a hurt feelings private.