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GOPerfect said:
Sorry, the Guard doesn't count.
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Yeah, cause I went through a different basic training and my deployment was to a different warzone then active duty guys... right? lol. I've worked in the Guard as a day job off and on too. Honor Guard and instructor stuff.

But hey, I'm fine without a banner. I don't need a pissing contest to know what I'm worth. YMMV.

-Cory
 
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Lmao well nobody ever accused you of not having a sense of humor.
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Sorry, completely of subject, I remember when I was Regular Army; the Guard and the Reserves would show up for training and we would treat them like absolute shit. We would constantly mess with them. We would see them at the PX and other places on post and find their lowest ranks, we would just berate them. Later in life, I joined the Reserves and realized, seriously, for the first time, that in many cases the Guard and Reserves were better Soldiers than Active Duty. Funny when the shoe (boot) is on the other foot!
 
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cor_man257 said:
Yeah, cause I went through a different basic training and my deployment was to a different warzone then active duty guys... right? lol. I've worked in the Guard as a day job off and on too. Honor Guard and instructor stuff.

But hey, I'm fine without a banner. I don't need a pissing contest to know what I'm worth. YMMV.

-Cory
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Cory, holy shit dude, I was kidding! All Soldiers are completely equal! Straight ball busting!!!
 
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cor_man257 said:
Nah, i'd say active guys in general are better then guard guys in general. But there are exceptions all over on both sides. Didn't mean to make a big deal.

-Cory
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I find that the the Reserve & NG guys tend to know their specific mos better than most active guys, just because they tend to work them when they drill and the Active folks get to work their MOS between all the details associated with the Army.

I don't get all this banner stuff either but, I also don't have my DD Form 214 on the rear window and bumper of my truck nor do I have an Army flag flying at my house.
 
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dsdmmat said:
I find that the the Reserve & NG guys tend to know their specific mos better than most active guys, just because they tend to work them when they drill and the Active folks get to work their MOS between all the details associated with the Army.

I don't get all this banner stuff either but, I also don't have my DD Form 214 on the rear window and bumper of my truck nor do I have an Army flag flying at my house.
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To each their own. I don't start every conversation with "I used to be in the military" but I know the type who do. Likewise, I don't claim the veteran discount many places offer. Just because I'm not that way. I am not defined by my service, but it is a part of who I am and my history.
I don't try to upsell or exaggerate what I've done, but likewise don't downplay it. I have veteran plates on one of my vehicles, and sometimes wear an old PT shirt. I don't loudly announce it to everyone like some dbags, but don't have a problem with being proud either. Someday when I own my own home, I will probably fly Glory. She doesn't need the Army flag's company.

-Cory
 
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cor_man257 said:
To each their own. I don't start every conversation with "I used to be in the military" but I know the type who do. Likewise, I don't claim the veteran discount many places offer. Just because I'm not that way. I am not defined by my service, but it is a part of who I am and my history.
I don't try to upsell or exaggerate what I've done, but likewise don't downplay it. I have veteran plates on one of my vehicles, and sometimes wear an old PT shirt. I don't loudly announce it to everyone like some dbags, but don't have a problem with being proud either. Someday when I own my own home, I will probably fly Glory. She doesn't need the Army flag's company.

-Cory
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I hear you, I have a casket flag in my window, it is the one I carried on every deployment I was on during my active days. That is the only flag that is currently flying at my house. I do fly the Jolly Roger every now and then.

I grew up on a USMC base then joined the Army at 17, retired at 37, went to work for them as a civilian for the past 13 years. Been around the world a few times. I guess I see it as something normal, kind of like saying I graduated High School. I do see vehicles with every medal and badge the guy ever earned on the back and the helicopters they fly plastered on the window. Almost everyone around me is a vet, active or married to a vet. Being a military brat, Soldier, and a vet is just the credentials of the crowd I live and work with.
 
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How come?
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Because a few years back me and a bunch of guys riding motorcycles on i95 north thru CT on our way to the casino were first on the scene of a bad accident. A tractor trailer that went over the divider forcing a car into the woods, and drove over a pickup truck with a father and son inside. Since it was like 1am there weren't many cars on the road in that area at that time of night. The scene was disturbing. We pulled the father and lifeless son's body thru the rear windshield. I have scars on my hands from the glass around the window frame. If it weren't for a guy in my club who was EMS there to perform CPR and help talk us thru what to do I don't know if those people would have made it. They were air lifted from the road. I heard a few months later in a news article the father and son made it. I was blown away. BTW, the driver of the tractor trailer, which went up the embankment and slammed into the underpass, stumbled out drunk as a skunk without a clue of the wake he left. That evening is permanently etched in my mind. It gave me a new appreciation for the people that deal with that on a daily basis. Their work can help saves lives.
 
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I can vouch for Guard/Reserve guys knowing more in some cases. In my guard infantry unit, we had a very high percentage of cops in there. 2 guys were on SWAT teams. There were lots of prior service Airborne guys and Rangers along with straight leg Marine and Army infantry.

We also had the guys that work security in the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. Those guys train like SWAT too and often take classes from outside sources.
 
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I don't try to upsell or exaggerate what I've done, but likewise don't downplay it. I have veteran plates on one of my vehicles, and sometimes wear an old PT shirt. I don't loudly announce it to everyone like some dbags, but don't have a problem with being proud either. Someday when I own my own home, I will probably fly Glory. She doesn't need the Army flag's company.

How loudly do you have to announce it to qualify as a dbag?
 
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Pale Rider said:
I don't try to upsell or exaggerate what I've done, but likewise don't downplay it. I have veteran plates on one of my vehicles, and sometimes wear an old PT shirt. I don't loudly announce it to everyone like some dbags, but don't have a problem with being proud either. Someday when I own my own home, I will probably fly Glory. She doesn't need the Army flag's company.

How loudly do you have to announce it to qualify as a dbag?
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I don't know the answer to that, but I stuck a badge under your name. Thanks for your service :flag:
 
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