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Hopefully I can weigh in on this one, first let me say this, the military is not personality-wise very different from the rest of the country. It has a cross-section of many different personalities.
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...and Americans in general doesn't have a "cross-section of many different personalities?
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The one thing that you count on is that each individual soldier remembers their training and ALWAYS conduct themselves in a professional manner.
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I don't think anything can be "ALWAYS" but I'm sure for the most part, they do.
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For those that do not, the US Military has several avenues of discipline for the individual that acts in a unbecoming manner as seen with the Abu Ghraib incident and a few others.
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See, you just contradicted yourself, it isn't always.
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However, these are isolated incidents and DO NOT represent the US Military as a whole which conduct themselves in a professional manner and are worthy of all the praise that they can be given for a job they are performing I might add extremely well given the operating conditions and environment.
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Amen to that.
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As for being unpatriotic to support combat forces deployed overseas protecting the very freedoms you enjoy.
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Not supporting a policy does not mean a person does not support the troops. Two soldiers that we're war critics, we're recently killed in Iraq. Even though they didn't support the policy, I'm sure they supported the troops.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3594058&page=1
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That's not for me to make that decision for you, but I would be the first to tell you that I and many like me defended this country so you could exercise those freedoms even though I don't agree with them and in some cases find them just plain sad.
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Well, I appreciate my freedoms and I'm sure you appreciate your freedoms and many vets don't see my view as "sad" but actually support it. I'm sure as time goes by and there is no end in sight, more of the military will question the current policy and since we are ALL Americans first, we can agree to disagree.