Please explain how stating the FACT that I'm an honorably discharged USAF veteran is considered "bragging"?

Question

Does that mean every military veteran who states when they served on YA is "bragging"?

Answer 1

after you emailed me because I answered your last question you called me g*y and insulted me.........when you do stuff like that you only make people not beleive.........real vets don't go around making such an issue about it as you do........if you are a vet ............fine....thanks.if your not...fine.........let it rest

Answer 2

Some people will attack anything or anyone related to the military. Just disregard it as the rantings of the chronically disenchanted. Thank you for your service. I too am a veteran of the United States Navy. If that is considered bragging so be it because I am proud of my history and will never pretend that I am not just to please sycophants.

Answer 3

To normal people, that is stating a fact. To jealous people, it is bragging. A few years ago, a "friend" told me I bragged about my condo all the time without realizing it. I asked him to give me an example, and his example was, well, just about any time I mentioned having a home. Not anything in particular, just saying I had somewhere to live and keep my stuff.

If people say you are bragging, dismiss them for the idiots they are and ignore them.

Answer 4

Because you make a big issue of it. You also attack other members who say they have served. It sounds like you are on a power trip and were the only person in the world who is a veteran. If you think the people here care, you are dreaming. Your complaining also makes many wary that you ever served, no matter what you say. This website is for Questions and Answers. You never answer any questions and only ask about yourself.

Answer 5

It's bragging and here's the reason.In the years after the Vietnam war none of you guys would admit to having been anywhere near Vietnam.Vietnam veterans were considered drug users and baby killers.It didn't become popular to be a Vietnam veteran until Reagan became president and pronounced that war "a noble crusade" and until Sylvester Stalone made the Rambo movies.Then Vietnam veterans began to brag about their war experience.Still,large numbers of active duty military would not wear their uniforms off base.After Grenada,when you guys finally won a war,then you began to wear your uniforms in public.These days it's very popular to be in the military.So you shout it from the roof tops.But thirty years ago,water boarding couldn't have gotten it out of you.It's bragging because you only shout about it when it's popular to do so.

Answer 6

I have rarely stated that I am an  Honorably Discharged Veteran, nor has it routinely come up in conversation.  The only time it seems to come up is when I am applying for a job.

I say that I am Retired US Air Force, or that I am an Air Force Veteran.

Would you say, "I am a Dishonorably discharged Veteran."?  I think not.

Bottom line is that it is not bragging, so to speak, it is just not normal conversation unless someone asks specifically.

Answer 7

People don't like you constantly stating that (and creating posts like this since its your SECOND post of this nature in less than six hours) because it seems like you're bs-ing and its unrealistic. Not to mention - anyone who reads your other questions and/or your answers to other users questions tends to doubt the validty of your statements on Y!A.

Answer 8

Because it is fairly unusual for somebody to state that they are an honorably discharged veteran.'  It is very rare for a veteran to point out an honorable discharge.

Comments like this tend to make other veterans suspicious that we may have a wanna-be on our hands.

Answer 9

I spent 9 Years in RAF and Nearly 28 Years in th Australian Air Force and i am a retired Warrant Officer Explosives Ordnance Engineer i had been Retired about a week when one of my neighbours told me to get a job later the same person had a go at me because on my Motorcycle jacket is a badge of London ant the RAAF flag and she said why are you wearing them badge you have never been there and i said using lots of superlatives that i was born in London well the next thing she is telling people that i have just got out of Jail turns out her Husband Joined up to get away from her and i wore it he has since divorced her and she had to move and when she was moving i said to her what goes around comes around.

and her reply was D and she walked off

I also received an Honorable Discharge it is something to be proud off because it relates to a Distinguished service career

If people call telling the truth about youself is bragging they must be jealous because they have done nothing to be proud of.

  

Answer 10

I don't see it as bragging, but what I can't figure out was why you even care.  I'm a vet, I know what I did while I was a Marine and could careless what anyone thinks or says about it.  h**l, this is the internet for christ sakes and most of the ones talking **** only do it b/c they don't have to worry about the geographical consequences of saying to anyones face.