I have yet to meet a marine veteran that isn't a severally fucked up person. We don't talk about how hard we fail on protecting our troop's mental health but we sure love waving flags and calling them heroes.
every yank who took part in afghanistan will say they "served in the middle east" despite the country... yknow, not being in the middle east. if you're going to invade a country on behalf of your empire i feel like you should at least know what part of the world it's in