US mil deep thought of the weekend
to the extent a general (not career exactly) military+recruiting culture existed w/the AVF before the GWOT (BE-ALL THAT YOU CAN BE!, Lavamonster, GI Bill, tech training, Top Gun bc why not, It's Not A Job, It's An Adventure), how does that square with the quote
In a few years we'll have more time with the AVF in the GWOT (and whatever the hell we call this era) than before 9/11, and tbh the 70s in the AVF were basically a wash because of the transition, immediate Vietnam hangover, etc; it didn't really hit until the 80s so we're already over that hump
