I always get excited when I meet someone who wasn't a hollywood style spec ops hero. Old guy here in town talked my ear off when he found out I was military. He told me all about going to his training in the navy and being put on a landing assault ship or something and about how he was not too dissapointed when the war ended as his ship was preparing for the landings on mainland Japan.
Also had a friend who was spec ops. He was Combat weather. Those are the guys who land in a place to see if it's safe for people to land there....LOL His big adventure was falling out of a helicopter, hurting his back and getting to be part of civil engineering before shipping out to Vietnam. Actually, he never got shipped to Vietnam. But he came real close...LOL
I own firearms not to fight against my government, but to ensure I will not have to.