No awards aren’t classified. Just mission details, and sometimes places you’ve gone, things like that. And, you know I’m out of the service now... but I appreciate you saying that to me. :) But know something - and this is coming from someone who didn’t “do anything important” in my life, it was my job, I chose to do it.
Most military personnel join the military for one of a couple of reasons... either they joined it because they really are patriotic, or they joined it because there was a good ad campaign (and perhaps believed, like me, that there were no other real options for college in those days).
I joined because I was patriotic, and because my father was in the Marines and served in Korea. I didn’t join “for college”, though I’ve now taken advantage of that and have gone to college for 30 years now :) (Thank you US Air Force!)
Again though - most military personnel join to do a job, and to them no matter what they do, it was “just a job”.
So, please save the “Thanks” for the kids that are in Iraq and other real world situations now, please.
“I joined because I was patriotic, and because my father was in the Marines and served in Korea. I didn’t join “for college”, though I’ve now taken advantage of that and have gone to college for 30 years now :) (Thank you US Air Force!)”
A lot of people I went to High School with joined because their dads were in the military, as did I. Of course in 1968 you either enlisted, got drafted or went to college. It’s was kind of a tradition in the South to enlist and the recruitment rates there are still high. I appreciated the GI bill later on as we were to poor for college and I was too hot to enlist anyway.