JayRayBuck

Sweetie, since you didn't serve and, well, I did, I thought I'd point out a few things about Gen. Milley's uniform you clearly don't understand. See that blue thing above his ribbons? That's the Combat Infantryman Badge. It's awarded to Army soldiers in the Infantry or Special Forces in the rank of colonel or below who have engaged in direct combat. You don't earn that by being a senior officer in the rear. There are plenty of senior officers who deployed and never earned a CIB, including general officers. If you look really close, his badge has a star at the top, which means it's his second CIB. You only get to earn one per war. He engaged in direct combat in both Panama (1989) and the Global War on Terrorism, and thus, he earned that rare star. If you look closely at his ribbon rack--and I'll grant you, this photo is a bit grainy--you'll notice he's earned three Legions of Merit and four Bronze Stars. On his left shoulder are the Special Forces tab and the Ranger tab, meaning he's both a former Green Beret and Ranger-qualified. There are some other cool things: both Master Parachutist and Special Operations Diver, the latter of which is a *very* hard course. But all of that pales in comparison to what you can't see in this photo: on his right sleeve, a quarter inch above the sleeve braid, are 10 overseas service bars. Each one of those bars represents six months of completed service while deployed in a theater of war. Gen. Milley spent five years of his career serving in combat zones: Panama, Bosnia, Haiti, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I imagine it must make someone like you feel pretty damn insecure that a leader who has committed his entire adult life to service in uniform thinks your orange daddy is a coward who avoided military service, but that's not a good enough reason to lie about his service record.