Got into verbal argument at a bar today

[lupi]

Yep, still in effect. My grunt buddies just informed me that there are 3 versions now, Enlisted, Officer, and Chaplain.

I was just looking over the award manual as I was trying to figure out what some of the abbreviations in my record meant and saw something about there being different versions now with some type of order of precedence if you have both (or something along those lines in the moment I glanced over it)

 

[marvdmartian]

by that fucked up stupid logic millions of others would not get the title "vet". since they were cooks, onboad ships, mechanics etc.

True.....

you serve in a warzone in a time of war you are a vet. I don't give a shit if you have a gun or a scalpel.

NOT true. You serve in the military, in time of war or peace, seeing combat or not, for a time period greater than (I believe) 180 days, then you are a veteran.

If you have seen combat, you can call yourself a combat veteran. But peace or war, if you serve (or have served) honorably, then you're a veteran.

 

[Slew Foot]

Without medics there'd be a lot less Veterans and a lot more tombstones.