Duck and Cover

Seriously? You'd be a pussy to call yourself a veteran if you carried dead bodies behind front lines or did something else not combat-involved?

Damn it. I really didn't even consider the word to be used for any other than fighting duty.

Well, in most of europe every male has been a conscript at some point so ipso facto, i'm a veteran. So is my brother, all my friends, all their friends. That is absolute bullshit.

Yeah, let's start a Duck and Cover Veterans subsection?

One fights a war in many ways beyond just aiming a rifle. There's being a veteran at many levels as well - Veteran =/= Combat Veteran neccesarily, it just applies to anyone who has been in the military, hence why when you get out here, you deal with the Department of Veteran Affairs for any reason you still need to deal with the military.

I guess it's a cultural difference, then. Around here when you say "Vietnam war veteran" to most people it means a guy who's been fighting in Vietnam. If you were a nurse at the field hospital we say "field hospital nurse during the Vietnam war", no fucking veterans there.

Seems that way given that Wiki's only entry is on the United States' view of what a veteran is. To be fair - when someone says veteran to me, I ussually think similar, but that's probably because when people think of soldiers, they normally think of grunts in tanks, rather than the mechanic who makes the tank work.

I still stand behind my and Superhaze's opinion that you can call yourself a veteran only if you've been a participant in (international) hot bullet exchange I would ridicule myself to call myself a veteran, no matter the bling-bling on my collars, and any mechanic who never saw a day of combat duty should feel the same. You were a mechanic in a combat situation, not a veteran. Bleh. Pointless.

The Finnish wikipedia article on the same matter:
Erityisesti veteraanilla yleensä tarkoitetaan sotaveteraania, eli sodassa sotilaana ollutta, ilman etuliitettäkin, jollei asiayhteydestä muuta selviä.
Freely translated:
Veteran means especially a war veteran, one who's been a soldier in war, even without the prefix 'war', unless the context tells otherwise.

Only the truest of DAC veterans remember the forum wars against NMA and KCP.

Wolfman Walt wrote:

Dogmeatlives wrote:Good Riddance. The way I see it, science is the next stage in our mental evolution...Science is made up of just as much BS as religion in my opinion...

Evolution involves moving forward, not to the side.

its called tacking. lol

He killed himself over that book?Richard dawkins pulls most of his info out of his ass.

WORLDonFIRE wrote:He killed himself over that book?Richard dawkins pulls most of his info out of his ass.

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