SD wrote:

> Tell me Jill, how many actual years of military service did YOU
> complete? I have 15 before a medical retirement. I was Vietnam Era, I
> got to take care of some of those boys when they came back - the one
> who survived thanks to guys like L not-L and MASH units.
>
I have to say Jill frequently reminds me of those children at the
playground, or perhaps the wife of some new young butter bar who wants
to remind everyone of daddy's/husband's rank ("full bird colonel")
without ever thinking how silly that sounds? Especially since she's
still doing it forty years later and never considering that others here
actually themselves held as much or more rank over all the years of Jill
crowing about "dad the full bull."
Dear old dad's rank is not her accomplishment in any way. Yet it is
ALWAYS brought up, as if it makes some difference in the scheme of
things? Dreams of reflected glory, I suppose?
Today when I read about her father being wounded, I laughed aloud and
thought "Yeah, but fragged by your own troops doesn't count!" LOL