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Xer Veteran Says that Millennial Enlistees Don’t Deserve the “Soft” Label They Often Get

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Aug 19, 2016
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Xer military veteran Carl Forsling says that Millennial enlistees don’t deserve the “soft” label they often get. He points out that while Xers joined the ranks at a time when combat was only a possibility, “Almost all Millennials in the military joined after 2001. Service in combat theater was a certainty for them, yet they joined anyway.”

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