By volunteered armed forces, are you talking about reservists? Or just people that aren't drafted? If you're talking about reservists, they screwed up a lot during Afghan and Iraq War including mass friendly fire by both reservists and by their own company on orders of their own officers.
We had a lot of heroes in Afghanistan War. If you truly believe people from our generation can't handle war, you should seriously check out the details of what happened in Afghanistan and you'd come out to admit how dumb and ignorant you are OP. Afghanistan War was brutal in its own way. However, our military and warfare methods have changed significantly. It doesn't change the fact that war is still war only this time we have less men. There are many ops in Afghan that was insane but Korengal Valley is possibly the most mention-worthy one as it does appeal to Hollywood-style audiences for war films.
In Iraq, I'm not too detailed with what happened after the fall of Bagdhad but I know during those 2-3 week invasion, Iraq War was filled with bunch of incompetent officers in the ranks of ELITE MARINE RECONS. They constantly got lost, was responsible for losing vast amounts of equipment that would later be used against them, was the first few to begin the invasion but got stuck behind a large invading force, committed war crimes, called fire missions on civilian villages that clearly had no men in it (and US Marine RECON were scouting the village to make sure and knew it was not a target), and their own incompetence actually got a lot of their own men in trouble while these officers walked scott-free. Despite these officers, the NCO's and few commissioned officers along with your average infantrymen were all brave/capable. In fact, today's soldiers/marines might be better than those in WWII and Vietnam primarily because we are less susceptible to commit war crimes in such a large number. Majority of war crimes that were reported were by our own men in the military. Of course, a lot of these would be attempted to be covered up and there are still isolated incidents of war crime (like Abu Ghraib prison and taking body trophies of dead enemies). On top of that, our men are working with significantly better equipment than in the past. This means they are more capable and less likely to commit flaying/mass gang rape/mass execution of civilians/etc than the average men in Vietnam (not to accuse all men to be war criminals).
People who think today's generation of armed forces can't handle *beep* because of how entitled pricks in college who think they can kick everyone's ass and knows everything... just don't know anything. You clearly have not researched any military activities past Vietnam War and the only reason you think like that is because you probably just watch a lot of overly dramatized portrayal of WWII and Vietnam War. Research the works in Somalia, Gulf War, isolated incidents such as rescuing hostages/POWs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq had its crazy moments too and several people are definitely worth mentioning. Afghanistan however, would be the landmark for military of our generation.
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