News Flash: The Military Isn't Easy

One thing I don't understand coming from the left is that they claim to feel sorry for our troops. They constantly say stuff like, "Iraq is hard," and now "they have poor living conditions here." All this to make it appear our military is going down the tubes. It is the same as it always was as far as toughing it out goes, but more advanced.

Most of my family has done stints in the military (father, and two uncles made a career out of it). I have a bunch of people that I consider brothers and sisters that are in the Navy or Marines. One thing they understand that we as civilians cannot seem to fathom is that the military is a huge entity that will have some holes here in there. The living conditions won't be the best, and they've been trained to suck it up.

Walter Reed, the big military hospital here in MD isn't the shimmering light of the military that Fox News makes it sound. In fact, there has been talk about tearing it down. That being said, yeah it sucks that our troops fight through everything overseas and come back to less that stellar health care and living conditions, but the military has almost come to expect it. They signed up for this, and they aren't shocked. Why should we be?

Update: At Blackfive, they have another good post about this situation. Written by a bunch of ex-military officers. Go back and read the first link he has set up in there for a better worded post of what I said above.

Also, I was in Walter Reed for a summer. Wasn't that bad, but what do I know? They were only saving my life. I guess Dana Priest is the end-all when it comes to health care.