Non- Combat Veterans.
Don't sweat it. G-d has a plan for each and every one of us. It wasn't His plan for you. You did your part same as everyone else who served. That's all that matters.
I served in Nam. 1967. USMC. 0311 grunt. Lost my best buddy at Con Thien and managed to get myself blown all to hell and medevaced the same day.
Even in country, there were probably 10 guys in the rear serving to support each one of us when we were deployed up along the DMZ. We couldn't have done our jobs if not for them.
Didn't fit into civilian life very well. So some years later, reenlisted. Was out too long to retain rank and the Corps didn't need 28 year old privates with a wife and 3 sons to feed. Navy needed welders and pipefitters though.
So I joined the Navy and went to sea aboard an LPD, then worked off a sub tender maintaining, doing SHIPALTS and patching up the diesel boats and nuke fast attack boats when they got banged up playing chicken with the Russkies during the not-so-Cold War years (mid to late '70s).
Eventually worked my way into NDT (welding inspection) and made E-6. Life in the Navy was a lot different than the infantry. I miss going to sea. Besides the asbestos, probably glow in the dark from all the zoomies (radiation) I was exposed to, though.
Anyway...... You did your part and if anybody thinks different, assume they are hungry and feed 'em a knuckle sandwich.
Semper Fi,
Harry
Delta 1/4, 3rd MarDiv
Don't sweat it. G-d has a plan for each and every one of us. It wasn't His plan for you. You did your part same as everyone else who served. That's all that matters.
I served in Nam. 1967. USMC. 0311 grunt. Lost my best buddy at Con Thien and managed to get myself blown all to hell and medevaced the same day.
Even in country, there were probably 10 guys in the rear serving to support each one of us when we were deployed up along the DMZ. We couldn't have done our jobs if not for them.
Didn't fit into civilian life very well. So some years later, reenlisted. Was out too long to retain rank and the Corps didn't need 28 year old privates with a wife and 3 sons to feed. Navy needed welders and pipefitters though.
So I joined the Navy and went to sea aboard an LPD, then worked off a sub tender maintaining, doing SHIPALTS and patching up the diesel boats and nuke fast attack boats when they got banged up playing chicken with the Russkies during the not-so-Cold War years (mid to late '70s).
Eventually worked my way into NDT (welding inspection) and made E-6. Life in the Navy was a lot different than the infantry. I miss going to sea. Besides the asbestos, probably glow in the dark from all the zoomies (radiation) I was exposed to, though.
Anyway...... You did your part and if anybody thinks different, assume they are hungry and feed 'em a knuckle sandwich.
Semper Fi,
Harry
Delta 1/4, 3rd MarDiv
