Track Palin got into another fight after the party.

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15. "what kind of military training this kid received? Not hand to hand combat," -- civilian words

1- The military is made up of hundreds of different kinds of JOBS, not just "hand to hand combat."

2- Since when is he still a "kid"? Maybe in intellectual and emotional maturity, but not chronologically at least. Besides that Daddy Todd was behaving as much of a kid as this dweeb was.

3- He enlisted for his own reasons (whatever his rap sheet was) and as the spawn of a political honcho he doubtlessly got preferential duties as opposed to straight up combat.


One of the disconnects vets face is the misconceptions from civilian family, friends, and strangers. I often wear a ballcap with my ship's patch on it and have run into scads of dudes who got all their ideas of the military from movies. In the past it was the DRAFT DODGER John Wayne's IMAGE. There was this jerk who would go into auto pilot every time he walked into a Happy Hour and see my ballcap and he would come right up into my face and BELLOW, "SIR, YES SIR!!!!!!1" He finally stopped when I made a comment to a bystander, "That's the idea they got from watching movies."