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But the marines are enemies of the people, too, the GOP should love them!
Oh fuck off. The military is mostly desperate kids.
The military is made up of the mostly middle class and a mix of those who are looking for education and housing benefits with a few who are from military families.
I know. I am a veteran 11B.
I've met many people who have served in various branches. I'm my experience, obviously anecdotal: people in the Air Force and Navy are mostly regular people. The army can go either way; they're largely undereducated but otherwise regular people. Marines are not normal people; they are brainwashed jarheads who believe they're god's gift to the world (and to women).
In my experience, marines are either some of the best, most down-to-earth, coolest people on the planet, or the most absolutely insufferable jarhead assholes you could imagine, and there is absolutely no in-between.
By and large, the cool ones tend to have not enjoyed their time in the service so much, they don't necessarily regret it, there were probably some bright sides that they enjoyed and can look fondly back on, but once they're out they're glad to have it behind them and move on with their life. The assholes tend to look back very fondly at all of it and think of it as the greatest thing they've ever done in their life (and sadly for most of them, they're probably right.)
It also tends to divide along if you had some actual skilled job, or were just some menial labor cannon fodder. If they worked on aircraft or vehicles, or were an armorer, or a tech person, etc. they're probably one of the cool ones.
The assholes tend to either greatly outnumber the cool ones, or the cool ones just tend to not be so damn loud about it. Generally speaking I end up assuming anyone I know was a marine is a trash human being until they prove otherwise (3 people who I consider to be some of my closest friends are marines, but marines are also way over-represented in my list of worst people I have ever met)
The absolute coolest people in the military have to be the coast guard though. I have never met a coastie who wasn't an all-around great person.
I never thought about that but that's bang on.
The coast guard is awesome. Definitely “bear and shrimp boil” kind of people.
Grizzly, Black, Polar, or Panda? What bear goes best in a shrimp boil?
Sun bear, obviously.
I love coasties
All of the military is brainwashed in some way or another, that's literally what boot camp is designed to do. It's just a lot more basic in the non-marine ones.
Interesting perspective, when did you serve to come to this conclusion?
You didn't get just a tad of Stockholm Syndrome in basic?
I remember when I was first issued my uniforms, I has this moment where I was like "They gave me clothes! I'm a person now!"
Luckily I shook that shit quick, but, it was definitely a weird ass mindset to be in.
Experiences may vary, Air Force basic wasn't like that, but I went in shortly after 9/11 so most of us had a purpose for being there.
Fair. I went through in '08, so that could have been the difference. 🤷♀️
Yeah, except for the marines. The marine corps is packed full of white supremacists, christian nationalists, regular nationalists, rapists, and just plain old psychopaths who signed up to get paid to shoot foreigners they see as subhuman. The majority of marines are trash, no matter how hard they threaten to beat or murder people who call them out for what they are.
Somebody's girlfriend got fucked by a marine.
Lance Corporal Jody
Yeah, a lot of the Okinawans raped by marines probably did have boyfriends.
Some of my best friends are hard core liberals and Marines. Perhaps you shouldn't judge by the group.
Being a liberal doesn't inherently make someone a good person, and neither does being your friend, but voluntarily being part of and defending a morally abhorrent organization does make someone a bad person.
Being as socially inept and outright ignorant as you makes you both a pathetic waste of society's resources and a waste of a good wankstain. You should slap your father for not having the common decency to wipe you on the curtains.
A typical restaurant worker does more good for the American people in a week than a marine does in a career.
That fact that you bootlickers have only insults and nothing of actual substance to back your position up just makes my point for me.
Good to know I'm better than American marines, they must be useless fucks if they're outdone by a chef like me. And if marines can't even stack up then you definitely don't, I bet you don't even know which flavour of crayon goes best with an mre. Fucking pathetic weak ass wannabe big man, you can't even flex your mental acuity enough to get a creative reply out you braindead troglodyte.
That's the Air Force you're thinking of.
I'll never forget the first racist joke I heard in the Corps. I thought we were all green, others disagreed.