How do veterans help other countries?

Answer 1

Veteran's deploy to other countries to help stabilize their governments, overthrow military coup's, restore their freedoms, protect the innocent, attempt to stop genocide, etc. etc. etc.

When any unit deploys to Another Country they automatically infuse American money into that countries economy (in most countries I was deployed to our money was worth significantly more than theirs). We also help people in the country personally. I remember having the local children beg to shine our boots so they could make a quarter. Sometimes I'd have my boots shined 5x in one day and give each child a dollar. We often leave things behind that the locals don't have: i.e. I have left warm clothing, blankets, electronics, small toys I brought for the children, etc. One time I fed the children chocolate and was so dumbfounded that never in their life had they ever tried it! (I got in trouble with the mom's because the next day they had some shall we say "tummy issues") however, the mom's were still grateful because that was an experience they could never give their children. Every once in awhile we "adopt" in a sense a child from the country where we stayed sending them a few dollars every month, etc. I remember one mother trying to convince me (actually begging me) to take this pair of air jordan nike shoes home with me because our unit had mailed or sent over with the next group of soldiers shoes for all of her children and the shoes were worth what she would make in wages for two years.

Veterans sacrifice to help not just those in this country but those in other countries as well. We truly do fall in love with the children that we meet and live alongside and do as much as we can to help them or spoil them when available. I have worked in countries providing combat air support to prevent drug traffickers from transporting drugs through their airspace to fighting to ensure that that country obtained a freedom those of us in the USA take for granted.