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My son had enormous enthusiasm, good health, ambition. His experience in the army eroded most of that. Fumbled recruiting promises; repeated injury and incompe
by JoeAltmaier 2y ago
My son had enormous enthusiasm, good health, ambition.
His experience in the army eroded most of that. Fumbled recruiting promises; repeated injury and incompetent treatment; frustrated advancement goals. Ended up a Sargeant, could have done so much more. Eventual medical discharge from accumulated health problems.
- petsfed 2y agoI'm reminded of a passage from Neal Stephenson's The Confusion: "Jack's chief source of discomfort, then, was a feeling well known to soldiers of low rank, to doctors' patients, and to people getting their hair cut; namely, that he was utterly in the power an incompetent."