Serious question, for anyone to answer
Would you say that a 'veteran' is merely anyone who's served in the armed forces, or specifically someone who has been directly involved in a conflict?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:15, archived)

Or like a doctor but for dogs lol

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:17, archived)

lol no way lol

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:22, archived)

in the UK I'd say it means someone who's seen active service
I think in America they have such a boner for their military industrial complex that I expect if you spent two years working in an army recruitment office in Ohio then you'd get the full THANK YOU FOR YOU SERVICE SIR shit for the rest of your life.

tl;dr CUNTS
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:22, archived)

Yeah, see that's my understanding of it too
But I see it in the news all the time, stuff like "Navy veteran Alan Smith (80)". And it's like, what war did he fight in? Too young for WW2, probably too old for the Falklands. I dunno. Just interested to hear what people thought.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:24, archived)

I reckon they're all a bunch of gert prannies

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:26, archived)

Wangers, m8. The lot of em

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:26, archived)

My old man was active during Suez and Cyprus at that age, not wars. So is he a veteran or not? In Cyprus both sides were shooting at him

( mongychops, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:59, archived)

You tell me, I have no idea

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 May 2021, 15:04, archived)

Not sure, he's not fussed, never applied for his medals or anything. But there were certainly issues between ww2 and the Falklands, which wasnt technically a war anyhoo

( mongychops, Mon 24 May 2021, 15:24, archived)

Fair enough
Thank you for pointing it out. I genuinely didn't realise that
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 May 2021, 15:32, archived)

Not at anyone else, mind. Just him.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Mon 24 May 2021, 15:37, archived)

The joy of being in the signals and a radio operator. Ten foot aerials on your back and next to the officer

( mongychops, Mon 24 May 2021, 16:11, archived)

I'd say it's anyone who's been stationed to a theatre of war
Anthony Swofford saw virtually no conflict in 'Jarhead' but the whole experience still fucked him up mentally
( Turing's Artificial Hand Sig Sauer, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:27, archived)

Assuming you've been deployed somewhere
and done more than just sit about in a van with no worries about driving over an IED at any second, I'd say you're a veteran

Whether that activity be shooting at baddies, or lugging sandbags about to stop a village getting flooded

though I imagine the latter would give you slightly fewer ptsd
(dribble, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:27, archived)

FUCK SHITPANTS NUGENT. HE IS ALL TOUGH, BUT WHEN IT WAS HIS TIME T5O HAVE BULLE4TS WIZ BY HIS HEAD, HE SHIT HIMSELF HERE AT HOME.
(dribble, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:29, archived)

It's someone who wins the hearts of the nation by walking up and down the garden like a fucking cunt.

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:31, archived)

twitter.com/OhBabyLetMegIn/status/1360208266307993601?s=19
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:32, archived)

Clap for him, peasants, while ignoring that the NHS is in such a state that he found it necessary

(dribble, Mon 24 May 2021, 14:35, archived)