This should go viral:

[Zoomie1986]

31. As a short-termer veteran

I normally don't care about things like rank or time served. I'm okay with people serving as long as it suits them, and don't care to trash those who serve only 4 years and move on.

I don't even have a problem with criticizing someone who put in 20 and went no higher than E6. If you've served, then you know that most enlistees are E-4 at the 4 year mark. If you can't move up more than 2 ranks for the next 16 years, you may have an honorable discharge...but you were not a good service member.

When I have a really big problem regarding time served/rank is if you were an E-4 who put in only 4 years and you're trashing an E9 who served 24. And all I have to say to that is:

Sit down.

Shut up.