VETERAN OUTRAGE SYNDROME: “We did it brothers, strength in numbers!”

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I'm a Desert Storm vet who drove an Abrams tank on the front lines. Some of the biggest fuck-ups, deadenders, and idiots I've ever met in my life, I met in the combat arms. Now they're 25 years older, and are still fuck-ups, deadenders, and idiots.

Former Federal employee Facebook dick-wavers... this article is for you! Time to get over yourselves.

This brought to light a much wider issue. HNIC and I discussed this and agreed that it’s something that needs to be addressed. It’s what has been dubbed “Veteran Outrage Syndrome”, and it effects our community just as much as PTSD and TBI. It’s something that is serving to further alienate our community from society. It is the belief that being a veteran somehow entitles you to the right to offend everyone else but it’s a grievous sin for someone to offend you.

It is the implication that being a veteran of the U.S. military makes you superior in your sensibilities. No one can speak out against you and your opinions because, “Godammit, I’m a veteran!” Any opposing voice is met with accusations questioning everything from your citizenship to your service experience in an attempt to circumvent any logic in the viewpoint that has transcended their baseline dichotomy.