RE: Minimalist will love this one...
September 25, 2014 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2014 at 4:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 25, 2014 at 2:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We spend $1,000,000 per man to equip, pay and train a soldier. Meanwhile they hand some fuckhead a garage door opener and tell him to press it when one of our super expensive vehicles goes by.We spend even more, thats an average. Some MOS cost more than others, and some specializations within an MOS are even more expensive still.
You can't win that.
Bring every fuckhead with a garage door opener my way. Eventually, they'll get me, it's just a matter of time - but I'll get so many of "them" that it will be difficult to find someone capable of operating the garage door opener and also...willing to do so. We can win, it's just that it's difficult to do so when your "leadership" keeps shooting you in the damned feet.
Soldiers are worth many times their own number in zealots, warm bodies, etc....
(that's why we spend the extra money..it doesn't always take....but there it is)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
