Soldiers life threatened by his own side.

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That's because soldiers are inherently immoral. If they sign up for killing people, what stretch is there to bullying, discrimination and intolerance?

Bullying, intolerance are uncontrollable and detrimental to the chain of command. As far as the chain of command is concerned, you do not eat, sleep or drink without being authorized, explicitly or implicitly.

Now, how far this is really believed?

Strangely, I feel that I have more faith in the Turkish military keeping secular than the US military being professional.

The chain of command seems pretty damning, if you've just entered you get shat upon and can't do anything unless you're told. I don't understand how that's still constitutionally legal, it's quite akin to slavery in that there is no option to leave or refuse to do something, plus the rife physical violence. Not pleasant stuff from what I've heard.

That last bit sounds familiar, just less glorified than I'm used to reading

Um... Not really. My brother did not sign up for the Marines because he is immoral. People sign up for the armed services for a number of reasons; I doubt killing is the primary one.

Well, yes, if you kill people, you're immoral. Perhaps his motivation wasn't to kill but I'm pretty sure that the main occupation of a soldier is killing people because they come from a different country to you, with whom your own country is opposed to. If I have a completely wrong view of the military please do clarify for me