Because he hates the US military.
“he hates the US military”
It’s a mutual feeling. He is no friend to the old guard, even if he has installed some “perfumed warriors.”
My family lost my father this past Christmas day to pulmonary edema, partly due to complications from Agent Orange.
I heard from someone that Obama wanted to send us each a signed certificate of thanks (autopen I’m sure) for my Dad’s service.
My response was that I would do with it what I think he would have done with it: Once I determined who it was from, it would go straight into the `round file.’
So they didn’t send the certificate.
One of his favorite expressions was, `What goes around comes around.’
And it’s coming around. Two more years of this joker.
Not only the military as an institution, but the kind of person who would serve in a disciplined, well-armed and dedicated organization. Armies exist to kill people, break things and make a lot of noise doing it. Just on a visceral level, the very thought of such disorder troubles many people, and their every instinct is of revulsion.
But over the ages, every civilization and even some otherwise rather uncivilized folks have engaged in some kind of warfare with rivals and neighbors, for any number of reasons, and every nation worthy of bearing the designation maintains some level of military preparedness, commensurate with preserving their status with their neighbors.
The United States of America long ago made a covenant with the men who sprang to the nation's defense, that the survivors of the ravages of warfare and their families should not suffer disproportionately for their sacrifices. And it has been (mostly) kept.
There have been lapses before (US Grant, hero of the Civil War, died in an unheated room, penniless), but veterans come to their elected leaders with a very high moral standing, and are rewarded much better than the persons who had never served. Until that got turned on its head with the example of the Korean War and the Viet Nam War periods, in which the veterans were either largely forgotten or openly insulted and despised.