Comment by tivert

> The amount of vitriolic comments here from entitled "service" members is astounding and makea me wish to safeguard it personally.

As someone who's never been in the military and isn't even acquainted with that many people who have been, I think I should give you a head's up that you are being an entitled asshole.

I think most people would be mad if they found out some of the most private and personal records about them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685002) would be made public to anyone who'd care to request them. It's a pretty terrible violation of privacy. Try to think about how you'd feel if something like that was going to happen to you (say, your complete browsing history would be made public, because I'm sure you have one and you almost certainly want to keep it private).