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When you left base you had body armor, helmet, goggles, gloves, your weapon, ammo, and some had a fire resistant under layer of clothes. The dangers included sniper fire, small arms fire, mines, car bombs, people wearing suicide vests, and so much more.
Countless service members had to witness and do things that you could never dream in your worst nightmares. Almost half of those who deployed did so multiple times some upwards of 5 or more times which is equal to about 3 years of time or 36 times the shelter in place time so far
My 2 deployments happened back to back so I was deployed for about 14 months over a 2 year period. I knew people who did over a 12 month deployment in one go. This does not even compare to those who were POWs, MIA or KIA.
So the next time you thank a #Vet for their service you have some small experience to what they may have endured. We are all in this together not as a political party, state or even a country but as a species. We all must help #FlattenTheCuve by #stayinghome
This does not in anyway minimize what those among us have been doing to keep the food available to us all, our trash picked up, mail delivered, health care provided and so much more that keeps us all alive. Stay strong everyone and like everything else this too shall pass.
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