Ah, another chance to sneer at my combat experience, so you took it.

I spent eight months in the Nam, until I was wounded badly enough to send me back to the States, mostly doing long range reconnaissance patrols, AKA LRRPs. That meant that I went out into the jungle with a few other men for up to two weeks, essentially unsupported, to see what was out there. Along the way, I picked up a Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and a Army Commendation Medal (the Presidential Unit Citation was given to the brigade as a whole). People who actually know anything about combat in Vietnam hold us lurps in fairly high regard. We did a difficult, dangerous job.

So take your sneer and shove it.