GlacialTurtle@lemmy.ml to Military English · 11 days agoMarine Corps Boot Camp Is Stupid & Spiritually Depravedwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squaregivesomefuckslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 days agoIt’s called indoctrination for a reason… But even most Marines break out of it before their first contract is up
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 days agoBecause they really want the ones who want to stay.
minus-squareTargaryenTKElinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoIdk why you got downvoted, you’re correct.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoBecause people refuse to believe that any person could want to be a warrior. The same people who have read a hundred history books about wars all over the world will swear that we’re all actually peaceful by nature. Look up a book called 'The First Casualty." It’s a history of war correspondents. One Vietnam era reporter was adamantly antiwar. He was approached by a publisher who wanted to do a book that would ‘take the glamour out of war.’ The response was ‘taking the glamour out of war is like taking the glamour out of sex.’ https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-first-casualty-the-war-correspondent-as-hero-and-myth-maker-from-the-crimea-to-iraq-mr-phillip-knightley/9be3d26a28344ef5?ean=9780801880308&bkshp-astro=t
It’s called indoctrination for a reason…
But even most Marines break out of it before their first contract is up
Because they really want the ones who want to stay.
Idk why you got downvoted, you’re correct.
Because people refuse to believe that any person could want to be a warrior.
The same people who have read a hundred history books about wars all over the world will swear that we’re all actually peaceful by nature.
Look up a book called 'The First Casualty." It’s a history of war correspondents.
One Vietnam era reporter was adamantly antiwar. He was approached by a publisher who wanted to do a book that would ‘take the glamour out of war.’
The response was ‘taking the glamour out of war is like taking the glamour out of sex.’
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-first-casualty-the-war-correspondent-as-hero-and-myth-maker-from-the-crimea-to-iraq-mr-phillip-knightley/9be3d26a28344ef5?ean=9780801880308&bkshp-astro=t