Stay in your lane isn’t helping the situation. Also, while fobbit is funny internally and helps maintain the operator focused hierarchy, calling these names on the outside is distasteful. We need to be supporting each other in our travails in the civilian world and not turning our service into a pissing contest. He didn’t make up his service or lie about the unit he was apart of. If he exaggerated anything, it was building a niche site more than a startup.
I applaud the OP for getting shit done while on deployment and having the courage to talk about it. And if he wants to get a little bit more attention by using the Iraq word, than by all means do it, because he was “deployed to Iraq.” The military beat into us not to self promote and not to bullshit. Both are somewhat a hindrance on the outside, especially in entrepreneurship. Good on the OP for trying to both build things and promote them.
I applaud the OP for getting shit done while on deployment and having the courage to talk about it. And if he wants to get a little bit more attention by using the Iraq word, than by all means do it, because he was “deployed to Iraq.” The military beat into us not to self promote and not to bullshit. Both are somewhat a hindrance on the outside, especially in entrepreneurship. Good on the OP for trying to both build things and promote them.