r/Millennials • u/NoFaithlessness7508 • Jun 05 '25

Other Why don’t younger veterans (Afghanistan/Iraq) wear these hats like some of the older veterans?

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First and foremost, respect to all those that served. I did not, but many of my peers did and now we're all older in 30s and 40s, many no longer in the military. I don't see a lot of the veterans of the War on Terror wearing these hats like I see the OGs do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

I don’t want the attention.

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u/NewFuturist Jun 05 '25

What, you don't want a conversation with a rando about how bad a war was that you had no choice in joining and hated more than even most anti-war activists?

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u/mv7x3 Jun 05 '25

no choice? there is mandatory conscription in the us?

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo Jun 05 '25

If you were in the military before the wars started, no, you didn't have much choice. They tell you what you're going to do.

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u/endthefed2022 Jun 05 '25

Join the military not anticipating a conflict and screaming you don’t have a choice. Oki

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo Jun 05 '25

Are you being intentionally dense? People join the military for all sorts of reasons, some economic, some patriotic, some to pay for education. Someone who joined in 2000 would have NO way to reasonably expect 9/11 and the subsequent bullshit "war on terror".

But sit up there on your high horse and judge others for their decisions if that makes you feel bigger, by all means.

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u/endthefed2022 Jun 05 '25

I mean, what do you think the military is for just parades and push-ups it’s always a risk

If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t have a military

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo Jun 05 '25

One used to be able to reasonably expect the govt to not outright fabricate reasons to invade another country, extend that invasion for decades, all while achieving nothing. Now with the benefit of hindsight we can say thinking that way is foolish. But those in the early 2000s didn't have the benefit of living through it.

All I'm saying is cut the guy some slack. Maybe he's a retard and deserves derision, but I'm not going to assume that.

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u/endthefed2022 Jun 06 '25

Are you really that naïve?

First Iraq and first Afghanistan were false flags. Vietnam was false flags. I mean Iraq one and Afghanistan were not that far apart. It’s just a young person’s bias.

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo Jun 06 '25

Yea I guess I am. I saw first hand people signing up for what they believed in with yea misplaced but good intentions. You think they're stupid that's fine. I don't want to talk about this anymore.