Terminal Lance - Veterans Day at Applebee's

Terminal Lance is a comedy website for Marines, the term "terminal lance" is in reference to the fact that it is so difficult for infantry Marines to be promoted compared to other military occupational specialties. In this article and comic strip the author/creator Maximilian Urite talks about what veterans are supposed to look like. The author argues that the veterans of today look much different than those of years before. He uses argument by example to say that Vietnam veterans are stereotyped as bearded, gruff, leather and patch wearing men easily distinguishable, while the older veterans where over sized hats that say veteran on them. These stereotypes may be accurate to some extent but he goes further to argue that today's veterans are only distinguishable by that military appearance of a clean haircut and we wear polo shirt. Compared with the veterans of Vietnam a widely unpopular war those grizzled veterans show their service with pride, while today's veterans seemingly fit in and are not understood or hated like the Vietnam era vets. He further goes onto argue that people accuse him of misrepresenting the Marine Corps with his comic strip and he states its a comedic strip and tells them to F#%@ themselves in Marine Corps fashion. This type of argument and example may not be understandable to most civilians but as a veteran these comics crack me up and tell the truth more often than not.

http://terminallance.com/