This is from a letter to Michael Yon that he posted on Facebook. The author is a Marine field grade officer.
Maybe I'm being overly dramatic, but the debacle in [Afghanistan], 10 years of General and Flag officers failing to lead us, sequestration, the discussions about significantly scaling back retirement benefits for military members and the significant decrease in funding available for training, leads me to believe that we are facing a perfect storm that will decimate morale and will cause a massive exodus of the good people from military service.I played the Soak the Rich game a short time before reading this. That "maxing out the credit card" part really hit home. Spend it all and ask Mom and Dad for an increase in the allowance. Clueless and selfish.
I think there are a lot of us who feel betrayed by a clueless, selfish nation that thinks that because they say "thank you" to a veteran from time to time, we will continue to do the heavy lifting and they can keep maxing out the credit card at the mall. That scares the hell out of me.