Do veterans get respect in your country?

In Australia they don't. When I tell people I'm a veteran of the Australian Army Cadets they often just laugh at me.

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>RESPECT ME GUISE! I SHOT A BUNCHA EMUZ!

you need to fight in a war to be a vet

Army members and former army members don't brag about it.
Therefore nobody cares.

Australians are not relevant for war

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>Hey mate,you should respect me! I'm a veteran of the emu war.
Why would they laugh at you?

All military people are scumbags.
I have nothing but despise for them.

there's a shit ton of gibs up for grabs, the rest is just theatrics from brainwashing

Where are you from?

That joke is very unfunny.

No you don't. I'm a veteran, I served in the cadets for 3 years, serving my country.

I see nothing wrong with talking about my service to my country.

no, fleeing soldiers from the west east skirmish are chased down and killed by the poor for thier clothes and weapons to sell for drugs. One mother even recognized his very own son when the mob she was in began tearing away at a group of injured guardsmen, rejoicing that he will finally make her some money from his issue boots and glasses

>The programme has more than 19,000 Army Cadets between the ages of 13 and 18
so you went to summer camp and got to hold a gun, woo wee

Why do you want to know?

Don't make fun of the cadets. We are serving australia too. We are veterans also.

I have to serve in the army for two years but you're not going to see me run around saying I'm a veteran

does conscription really count, though? I know it's the same experience, but when everyone's a veteran of course it's not noteworthy

I think it’d be interesting to know. It might lead to some more in-depth discussion about the functionality of the cadets in this country.

I'm from VIC. What about you? Are you also a Veteran?

Cadets are literally bunch of larping 15 year olds

Veteran for me is defined as a person who actually had combat experience on the field not someone who just ran around in a cadet uniform in a school as part of a co-curricular activity

Don't talk shit about us, civillian.

Honestly I wouldn't give a fuck unless you passed SLC and reached at least WO2 and actually passed into ADFA
You can't actually be serious about 'serving the country' either; almost the entirety of battalions I met at AFX were braindead private school mongs who couldn't string a hootchie together if they had to save their own lives, parasitic drain on actual expenditure

Funky chicken

Some guy outside of coles blocked me into a 5 minute spiel about how i should donate to his veteran fund
told him to fuck off i don't care if somebody on 70k a year more than me got sad machine gunning small brown people for America

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tbf the modern Australian Army, although actively engaged against the Taliban in Afghanistan; still, has a strong focus on humanitarian aid for our pacific neighbours. With that said though I still think we should stay out of the middle east entirely

> > > > > Cadets
no wonder, what service did you do? Planting trees and 'training' with 11 year olds?

Yeah but they only get PTSD in the middle east. And they're there in an extremely professional capacity with very few random grunts and less than 20 dead in the last 2 decades. And its just to get good boy points with America which is fair enough because we need it for security

lol

Well you are right, I remember an old saying that says "In time of peace the soldiers rank up by political merits not war merits"
Today there are Officers that are not Veterans

I mean if you fought in a war then you'll have respect, if you don't you are just taking credit for doing a common job like an cashier or something like that.

No not really