{"id":20971,"date":"2010-10-26T20:18:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T00:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20971"},"modified":"2010-10-26T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T00:18:36","slug":"burn-pit-hollywoods-veterans-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20971","title":{"rendered":"Burn Pit: Hollywood’s veterans are back"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess I watched the same shows they watch in the TSO household (“TSO household” sounds so weird after years of “TSO basement” – my little guy is growing up), because I noticed the same thing he did the other night. Crazy veterans are back on our airwaves. I swear, it’s getting harder to watch anything on TV. But anyway, some guy by the name of Mothax at the Burn Pit<\/a> wrote;<\/p>\n

Anyway, so last night, in the after-glow of my aforementioned Patriots win, I settled in with the wife and my mildly retarded Puggle to watch Criminal Minds. This is sort of our favorite on-call TV show, because it can generally found on between one and three channels 24 hours a day, seven days a week on our ATT U-Verse. Criminal Minds follows the FBI\u2019s \u201cBehavioral Analysis Unit\u201d (BAU) as they track down serial killers. Last night I made it through two episodes before chewing some Excedrin PM to knock myself out.<\/p>\n

The first one was an Episode called \u201cDistress\u201d wherein a veteran of B 3\/75th Rangers from Somalia one day just completely loses his mind and starts killing folks in Houston, Texas, thinking he is back on the streets of Mogadishu. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, you should read the whole thing. I enjoyed it more because it included a link to one of my old posts<\/a> and reminded me of the glory of my youth (last year before I bought a house which has become my third or fourth job). It was probably one of my best posts ever and I enjoyed reading it for the first time again. <\/p>\n

But Mothax, whoever he is, is right. We’re being subjected to the John Rambo version of veterans again…the fact is that it began subtly as soon as the war began. A blood thirsty, homicidal maniac veteran, who undoubtedly was a Ranger\/SEAL\/Green Beret\/Force Recon\/Sniper, is a much more exciting stereotype than a guy who comes back from the war, goes to college raises a family and becomes the best darned employee that ever existed. Unfortunately, for Hollywood, that’s how most veterans turn out, though. Ask us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess I watched the same shows they watch in the TSO household (“TSO household” sounds … Burn Pit: Hollywood’s veterans are back<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}