I'm torn on this one. I've been deployed many times and I've lived through some pretty dadgum crappy conditions, so part of me does wonder whether we're raising a generation that's not built for "prolonged hardship" (I'll go PC

) than previous generations were. I'm guilty of it myself when I look at my 13-year-old compared to what I was doing at his age as a Gen-X latchkey kid.
But I also don't want to use that as an excuse to dismiss legitimate issues. If the reports about food, sanitation, exhaustion and not even knowing when they're coming home are accurate, it needs to be investigated, but what's the scale we're grading on, ya know? Again, I'm torn...you can believe people need to develop resilience
and believe leadership has a responsibility not to run its people into the ground. Le Sigh
This generation has been handed more comfort, more resources, more language, more therapy, more freedom, and more opportunity than almost any generation before it. Meanwhile, there are people right...
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