Actually kind of pathetic, but the whole Storm of Steel/Nietzschean war idolization, even up Hitlerian bromides, isn't even an ideal attained to by current US military supremacy. Not politically correct, but try telling me a drone pilot is equal in character to a WWI/WWII vet.
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i did read once drone pilots are considered 2nd class citizens on their air bases
That's good, but there ought to be way more gradient than just two classes and almost nobody since Vietnam should be capable of attaining the highest levels of status: it should be a dead possibility, like that of having an Erdős number of 2.