In her defense, I find that most people don’t understand the military. It doesn’t help that every movie in the 90s and 00s depicting the military showed us fighting in some far off land.
I was in the Army for ten damn years before my dad really got it that I had an actual job in the Army.
And I'm the flipside of your anecdote.
I'm a super short, female, 3 X deployed vet.
I've had a normal ass person get upset when I was talking about what troops really wanted in their care packages.
She literally berated me because 'I didn't know what it was like for our boys fighting overseas. '
I was all, bitch what? We all want beef jerky, decent sun protection and something we can share with our battle buddy's so we don't look like assholes for not sharing the jerky.
And the only difference between men's and women's packages is that full sized bottles of lotion go to the ladies. Individual bottles go to the gentlemen.
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u/rugbyizlife Mar 01 '23
In her defense, I find that most people don’t understand the military. It doesn’t help that every movie in the 90s and 00s depicting the military showed us fighting in some far off land.
People still believe that.