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Originally Posted by Walking Dead
Thanks! My family is why I am no longer active duty, and in this predicament. I have been very unhappy sitting on the sidelines while everyone else is doing the fighting.
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I'm not familiar with your service but being part of a rifle unit (I think you said you were an O-3 or O-4? Or am I confusing you with Rifleman) means that you are automatically tougher than 99.9% of the population. To me there is a quiet, stoic nobility in the infantry - not that the rest of the military is not essential - which influences my current medium-term 'life goal' of joining the British infantry, eyesight, height and useless university notwithstanding. Considering that the US's manning issues are concerning but not catastrophic I don't think there's any shame at all in staying home with family.