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no. but i have family and friends who are currently enlisted and/or vets.
That is exactly why our opinions differ. You cannot truely understand what its like to be deployed to a hot-zone until it happens to you and you're kissing your children goodbye, perhaps for the last time. You feel more confident having a CiC sending you into battle when his history shows he'll quickly turn on you and call you a "baby killer" when it suits him, while I feel more confident with a CiC that earned his wings and served his time.
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i don't think i said any of that or insinuated it. i'm just comparing the service of a soldier who fought in battle to a part time reservist and my interpretation of respect between the two.
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in comparison to a man that weaseled his way out of the same situation he's trying to send me into.
Sorry, but I took offense to this. Every single person in the military signed the dotted line to protect our country. Saying the going into the reserves is weaseling out of something is putting down the thousands of soldiers overseas this very moment.
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and you have a god given right to your opinion even if it doesn't agree with mine.
Us military folk think of this differently as well. While god may have granted us the right to free speech, it was our military who makes sure we keep it, even those who were in the reserves. 
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