Comments like this remind me of just how self-absorbed, tribal, and dangerous nationalism is.

As you say, the U.S. armed forces are made up of volunteers. The country has been at war for over a decade now, so basically anyone who's on active duty now volunteered while these wars were already on. So there are people who knowingly signed up to be transported across the world and go kill people for no good reason.

To kill people. To fucking kill people. This isn't a ping-pong tournament with questionable corporate sponsors, it's the death and displacement of thousands, or millions, of human beings. Fuck you very much for putting your politics and imaginary scenarios and anachronistic machismo above that many lives.

Are redditors young and entitled? I'm sure they are. Are they "pussies"? Yeah, definitely that too. And I can tell not because they're too cowardly to go participate in unjust wars, as you suggest, but because they're too cowardly to take any non-internet action against the broken democracy that starts those wars. But that doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong for not jumping on the bandwagon of glorifying the military, a very disturbing proposition if you look at any sort of historical context.

And it certainly doesn't mean the soldiers are right, either. Of course most of them probably joined without full knowledge of what they were getting into, and perhaps because they had financial hardships and families to support. I certainly wouldn't disagree that they're brave and probably well-intentioned, and I wouldn't personally spit on anyone in uniform as we used to do during the last stupid long-term war (when they were drafted!), before this alarming trend of army-worship. But don't you dare call people brats just because they don't want to give a reacharound to someone whose job is to kill people.

tl;dr No, you grow the fuck up, and stop insulting people just because they're opposed to needless killing.