06/16/2026
From SCRC Chairman:
While I honor Graham Platner’s combat service which is similar to many of the GWOT era, I do not like the way he portrays our profession. To be frank, this dude Platner is completely full of crap. He may have some combat experience but he completely lacks the maturity and judgement of a combat leader. In fact, most privates who did one combat tour don’t behave like this, like a drunken bar room bully. PTSD is what doctors use to portray those who are conditioned to combat and it does take a toll on us. Yet, outbursts of malignant aspersions and bragging about violence is an indicator of someone who may not have experienced violence other than maybe the periphery of it.
His posturing is similar to pre war antics of the peacetime military. Yet his demeanor has none of the bearing and discipline of the pre war military. This is someone who has had the familiarization with war but not the training and indoctrination to a professional ethos. His behavior is the pathology of when a profession fails to instill ethics and virtue. It’s sick that the democrats put him up, and it’s so indicative that they are so alien to the military profession they jump from the POG deployment dodger Walz to this utter failure of a junior NCO.
Combat vets will always have an edge. They have a force of character that most modern civilians are unable to grasp, and they are impatient with some civilians needy egotistical indulgences. Combat vets also, speaking from experience, suffer from extreme angst, bouts of depression, dark days, and occasional emotional numbness. This is time eternal. Yet, mocking and ridiculing those who suffer is not the sign of “PTSD” or being a combat vet, it’s the sign of a wannabe that is trying to hard to play to an image. Platner should know that he is more a member of the noblest profession of the human race, the profession of arms, and not a rogue warrior mercenary type that thinks he is impressing anyone. He is only impressing liberals who don’t know any better.
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