[RWB Patriot]

How many of those Marines said that because they believed it and how many of them said that because they knew they’d be punished if they said otherwise? Questions on a piece of paper and actions on the field are two different things.

Also, the fact that even countries like Nazi Germany and the USSR had to create special political armies to deal with their civilian populations should say how much the military enjoys being used as a politician’s bully boys.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Many of the S.A. and S.S. were people cashiered from the military for thievery, lassitude, mental problems, moral turpitude, cowardice, homosexuality, incompetence and other infractions, just like many members of the Gestapo were former policeman let go during the Weimar Republic for similar reasons. Now we're celebrating homosexual/lesbian general officer promotions.