Posted on 05/14/2017 11:13:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
par,
good points; my observation is there has been a sea change among our military since roughly 1990. Until then, the citizen-soldier was considered the American Ideal. The citizen - soldier thought for himself, was good at improvising, did his job effectively, wanted to return to normal life, and never boasted.
That ethos has vanished. Today, our military has a culture which would be abhorrent to any US military leader such as Grant, Lee,Pershing, Eusenhower, MacArthur, and of course Washington. It’s unAmerican and seems to follow a Prussian Model.
The responses to my comments are good examples of this Prussian military culture which has corrupted our military.
I’ll admit that I wasn’t stupid enough to be a Marine back in the day. The type that would suicidally follow orders. Your name doesn’t happen to be Matthew McKeon, does it? I thought he died about 15 years ago.
You did us all a favor.
Semper Fi
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