Not terrified, just so bloody thankful that all this started after my son signed his get out of the Corps papers because he said he wanted to go kick some more ... but it was too late. Lost my bro in Nam, lost son’s friends in Afghanistan, screw these rules of engagement. Politicians thinking they are God when they should be fighting under God’s rules of engagement.
By the way, soldiers just married didn’t have to deploy for the first year of their marriage.
It’s not too late. He could go be a mercenary, which is what I wish all the hawks’d do instead of bothering us about it.