Reply #5: How could you say that?

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I certainly don't purposely get wasted drunk, start fights, etc. When I visit a foreign country, I don't expect them to doing things the way I've been accustomed. It's THEIR country and culture, and I respect that. Your argument doesn't make sense.

Many military and civilian americans don't respect other nations. That's quite an understatement.

Don't get me wrong, I know plenty of great people in the military. I work for a government defense contractor and deal with great military people everyday. I don't have a problem with a single one of them. But it's the young cocky kids that get shipped overseas and embarass us.

I went to college in Newport News, Virginia. Really close to Norfolk and all of the military in the area. Believe me, I've had my fill of the young, loud, obnoxious ones.