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I was Navy aircrew from ~86 to ~96, and I consider myself a veteran. The way I look at it, some of the stuff we did (low level airborne ASW, chasing Soviet subs at 200 feet) was probably more risky than someone who was a camp guard in Colorado during WW2. I don't see that camp guard as any less of a Veteran than anyone else, everyone had a job to do, and not all of them involved Combat.
That being said, Combat Vets certainly deserve the respect and support of the nation, something that I feel is lacking, particularly from the government that sent them there in the first place.
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