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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Drill sergeants have a strange position to occupy. Even Full Metal Jacket doesn't really treat that version as a good thing, after all, Hartman ultimately drove Pvt. Pile to murder-suicide. Not the picture of a successful training outcome.

Beyond that, there's the typical ambiguity of playing a routine so often that you start to absorb it. If you're gonna be a kill hat you have to get into it to some extent or you won't pull off a convincing performance, but if you get into it too much you'll find that you've actually become an unhinged asshole and all the people in your life who aren't your subordinates will probably take issue with it.

I've also seen concerns from some DIs because they end up coming to like their recruits but can't really show it, and so after training is over they have this weird uneven relationship where the recruits go on hating and fearing the DI, who at this point suddenly treats things normally.

The solution to all this, of course, is to join the Air Force. Their DIs will be far too busy sleeping in and bandaging papercuts to interact with the airmen at all.

[RedKing]

Why would the marines put that on their website. It doesn't make anything look good at all.

ARE YOU QUESTIONING THE WISDOM OF THE UNITED STATES GODDAMN MARINE CORPS, SOLDIER??

[Remalle]

Edvard Grieg's Morning Mood

Oh hey I played a solo in this piece in a concert like two weeks ago.

[Amperzand]

Why would the marines put that on their website. It doesn't make anything look good at all.

ARE YOU QUESTIONING THE WISDOM OF THE UNITED STATES GODDAMN MARINE CORPS, SOLDIER??

FTFY :V

[Flying Dice]

Drill sergeants have a strange position to occupy. Even Full Metal Jacket doesn't really treat that version as a good thing, after all, Hartman ultimately drove Pvt. Pile to murder-suicide. Not the picture of a successful training outcome.

Beyond that, there's the typical ambiguity of playing a routine so often that you start to absorb it. If you're gonna be a kill hat you have to get into it to some extent or you won't pull off a convincing performance, but if you get into it too much you'll find that you've actually become an unhinged asshole and all the people in your life who aren't your subordinates will probably take issue with it.

I've also seen concerns from some DIs because they end up coming to like their recruits but can't really show it, and so after training is over they have this weird uneven relationship where the recruits go on hating and fearing the DI, who at this point suddenly treats things normally.

The solution to all this, of course, is to join the Air Force. Their DIs will be far too busy sleeping in and bandaging papercuts to interact with the airmen at all.

The thing that really made me determined to never join short of being drafted are the fucking mindgames. Not the physical components, not the obedience, but the little organizational bullshit like being forced to memorize the exact term which you must use to refer to an NCO from each and every goddamn branch, and they're all different and you get your head ripped off if you get it wrong.

[Orange Wizard]

FTFY :V

THE FREEDOM

IT BURNS

[Amperzand]

FTFY :V

THE FREEDOM

IT BURNS

JUST AS PLANNED

[ArKFallen]

JUST AS PLANNED

Now to spread Freedomorrhea to the EU so your pooping will bring freedom

[Orange Wizard]

Spoiler: NZ political humour (click to show/hide)

[Amperzand]

Spoiler: NZ political humour (click to show/hide)

I appreciate this greatly.

[hops]

He should've just let the market forces decide which of the flags are better.

[ArKFallen]

San Bernardino: Narrative vs Reality by Mister Mekotur

Also this

He should've just let the market forces decide which of the flags are better.

[Flying Dice]

San Bernardino: Narrative vs Reality by Mister Mekotur

Excuse le maymay arrows, but god damn.

>spins narrative about mass shooting as political capital
>calls own narrative "reality", blasts other narratives
>this jackass can't be serious
>he is
>4,700 likes for a shallow hypocrite who doesn't even educate himself about the shit he's talking about and does the same dumb shit that he lambasts others for

ಠ_ಠ

[Emma]

Spoiler: NZ political humour (click to show/hide)

We get the same thing in Australia. I'm starting to think our politicians are incompetent.

[Amperzand]

Spoiler: NZ political humour (click to show/hide)

We get the same thing in Australia. Our politicians are incompetent too.

FTFY