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DanI was and am proud to have served and continue to serve, just went over 21 years of service. I would do three more tours if necessary.
In regard to your comment about "downhill", sadly I tend to agree. If history serves as a lesson for our future as a World power, we must look at all the great empires of known history and reflect on what brought them down and the duration that they were super-powers. The nice thing about the military is there is a lot of spare time to read about things and to reflect, history is something that many Americans refuse to look at and realize that is could just as easily happen to us. We are nearly 250 years in to this endeavor, how many years to go? It is a logical question considering our current situations in trade, commerce, dollar vs any other form of currency, etc. or the fact that vast portions of the US have been bought up by foreign companies and investors and we owe Billions of dollars, while we are afraid to call in the marker on the Trillions that are owed to us. Ugh.