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by jshen 6486 days ago
it depends how you define sacrifice. If by sacrifice you mean having random evenings taken away from you because your 1st sgt had a hair up his as and made you clean the floors for 3 hours then yes.

I had no problems with valid sacrifice, and I spent a year in Bosnia sleeping in a tent with no heat, but it was the arbitrary power that people had over me that made me hate it. Ever cut grass in the pouring rain? Ever sweep a parking lot in the pouring rain?

On top of that I hated that I accomplished absolutely nothing day in and day out. Today we clean the motor pool, tomorrow we have an inspection of our clean motor pool, the next day we do pretty much nothing again, etc, etc, etc