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Drill instructors, Hegseth said, would be empowered “to instill healthy fear in new recruits.”
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By "keyboard", you mean a Bronze Star recipient in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq?
Followed by being promoted to Major and being a counterinsurgency instructor in Kabul?
If you don't like the guy that's fine, but he's not a "keyboard warrior"
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Two bronze stars! And no valor device. Shoot, I also have two bronze stars without a bronze V. In the Navy, those are referred to as "admin" bronze stars. "Oh, you were in country, your MSM becomes a BSM by default". I also made O-4 but 95% of my time was full active duty.
Now, this is a tough one to get.
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My understanding is that the bronze star, when awarded to officers w/o a 'v' device (i.e. for "meritorious service"), is considered something of a participation trophy.
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Those medals and $22 will get me a shot of Johnny Walker Blue at the Irish pub at GTMO.
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It's GTMO. The Jamaican and Filipino workers there really captured the vibe of the Emerald Isles.
The place didn't have any Irish beverage except Bailey Irish Cream. Not even Tillimore Dew. (Give every man his due)
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Participation in what? If the answer is "the military", then that would mean the "keyboard warrior" accusation the other poster made would be inaccurate.
Isn't the "keyboard warrior" designation one that's typically used to describe people who didn't serve?
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The other definition I've heard is one that implies
"Someone who does all of their trash talking online in anonymity because they'd be afraid to face real world consequences"
That wouldn't apply to Hegseth either would it?, he's certainly not anonymous when he's making comments...and I don't know that "afraid to say it to someone's face" would describe a member of Airborne who was a counterinsurgency instructor, either.
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I wasn't the one who used the term "keyboard warrior."
I used the term "participation trophy," which would mean he got a medal for showing up and doing his job.
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Nothing sez “yeah, I’m an Emperor, and I’m hip enough to to have examples of the latest technology (even though the first “photograph“ will not have been taken for five-six years after I will have shuffled off this mortal coil)!”, quite like these facts.
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