Really AZ? My father was in the service for 20 years, joined at the age of 16. He retired a young man because he didn't like what he called the "new military". Lack of respect and discipline was his reason. He didn't want his medals either although he earned every damned one of them. He saw no honor in killing children, men and women that were innocent. He also discovered, after he retired, that many of the promises made to him when he joined were lies. He never could tolerate a liar. Does that make the years of service, during active wartime, in a war zone (not safely tucked in DC giving orders to go out and kill more people) less valuable to the Country? Does that make the hundreds of lives he saved with little equipment and supplies, that less valuable?