RE: Do you think American soldiers are put on too high of a pedestal
January 17, 2017 at 11:36 am
I think the attitudes described in the OP are directly correlated to how far removed a person is from boot camp. When I was stationed at MCAS Miramar, there were a lot of young Marines that would love to say, "I didn't sign up to serve my country so that these California hippies can [insert x here]!" Or something similar. They'd never say that in front of their sergeant, but my shore tour was in the G-4 office and there were plenty of young Marines around that didn't think I could hear. I had several conversations, pulling PFCs/LCpls into my office and giving them the gunny hand. Never heard it out of my sailors, but I wouldn't put anything past them, they weren't generally a prideful bunch to begin with though.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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