Posted on Aug 7, 2015
How Does This Soldier's Message Make You Feel?
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Political statements aren't to be made in uniform.
If you want to make a statement, do so. But don't be a fucking coward and hide your face. Seriously.
I don't care what your views are. I really don't. You're entitled to Free Speech. You're allowed to Protest. But be grown up enough to live with the consequences of your actions.
You know that you're not allowed to make political statements in uniform, or you wouldn't hide your face. Therefore you're a goddamn coward, and I don't want you wearing my uniform.
If you want to make a statement, do so. But don't be a fucking coward and hide your face. Seriously.
I don't care what your views are. I really don't. You're entitled to Free Speech. You're allowed to Protest. But be grown up enough to live with the consequences of your actions.
You know that you're not allowed to make political statements in uniform, or you wouldn't hide your face. Therefore you're a goddamn coward, and I don't want you wearing my uniform.
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PO1 David Kingsley
GySgt David Weihausen - I just realized that my response should not have been directed towards you, and I'm sorry if it seemed as if I thought you were the one denying the effectiveness of vaccines
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MSG J G. Sandy Phillips
I fully agree with Sgt Kennedy. As a careerist, and a Citizen, I took an interest in politics. I voted (still do) in all elections. When I was near the end of my career, up in Alaska, I attended (in civilian clothes) a party caucus. I was selected to go as a rep to the next level, but when it was discovered I was a soldier, it was pointed out to me that the Hatch Act prevented me from going ahead. I could then and now understand the point of the act. When we put a sign on our lawn or a sticker on our car, we are expressing ourselves as individuals. When we do things in Uniform, we are no longer individuals, but we are spokespersons for our service - and political messages have no place there.
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If this was really a Soldier, I say if you don't want to fight then get out- I'm guessing this person joined for the college money. I see it far to often, want military to fund their college without any obligation of self
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SSG George Englert
The subject post was made 9 years ago, a year after Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. Since then Russia's invasion of Eastern and Northern eastern Ukraine in 2022 escalated the conflict, so the subject post hasn't aged well. Hopefully, the US and our NATO allies are not about to make the same don't mistakes our great-grandparents and grandparents made in Europe 9 decades ago.
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CPT Jerry Lucas
The main reason I joined at 17 was for the college money and other benefits. Yet, for some strange reason I stayed 21 years and deployed twice. I found a purpose after I joined. I don't think it matters too much why they joined, it's what they accomplish while they're in that matters.
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SPC Daniel Rankin
I went into the army under he montgomery bill for college, but still went to war in Kuwait, because a tyrant was killing innocent people. I hate tyrants. My job was to rescue people in distress. Hotel 8. That person hiding his face is a coward, that was my first reaction.
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