It’s an unwritten thing that we banter without concern, but when one or many of us are in need of any kind of help or support, we come running. The color and service of the uniform is meaningless when it matters. We’re brothers forever and we have the back of our entire nation.
Veterans share a bond even when we don’t know each other. It matters and it is special. Nothing can take that away and if our nation calls, we are there for her. Period.
Be well my friends.
May I introduce you to today’s military. Bye bye brotherhood, it may very well exist in portions of the service, and may even occur in most aspects of the military. The submarine service is not the same, the swinging of the pendulum from brotherhood to harassment swings harder than any other I know. We flat out (not I) count many people as dead to them, and no amount of foxhole status would they do anything for you, short of something for self preservation, whereas other groups will help someone even if he/she is unliked. I swam against the grain, I paid the price, I served my 6 years honorably but couldn’t bear to see it happen to more people. The military sacrifice is extraordinary, but veterans should never use that to destroy that brotherhood, NOR treat non military civilians with contempt, because of you do, why the hell did you serve?
My time in the reserves (Master at Arms / military police) was the polar opposite, people genuinely cared, even though they harassed you, there was a lot of that going on and it was a fun time. But Covid changed my reserves life permanently.