Posted on 04/21/2014 9:57:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It may come as an unwelcome surprise to conservatives, but America’s military has one of the only working models of collective living and social welfare the country has ever known.
Every day before dawn, brave men and women of different races and backgrounds rise as one, united by a common cause. They march together in formation, kept in step by their voices joined in song. These workers leave their communal housing arrangements and go toil together “in the field.” While they are out doing their day’s labor, their young are cared for in subsidized childcare programs. If they hurt themselves on the job, they can count on universal health care. Right under your nose, on the fenced-in bases you drive past on your way to work or see on the TV news, a successful experiment in collectivization has been going on for years.
In an era defined by 13 years of continuous war, most Americans still seem to regard the U.S. military as a mysterious and remote way of life. Then a tragedy involving a soldier or veteran happens, and reliably experts come forward to explain the strange customs of the folkloric troop in its native habitat. Shame that so many of the experts seem to have barely a clue what the military is really like. They’ve studied it from a distance without getting a real feel for the customs and characteristics of the culture they’re eager to explain.
It probably comes as a surprise to many, but the army may have more in common with Norway than Sparta....
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Aren't you momma's little darling? Clearly, you have absolutely no clue what military service during time of war is all about and you never darkened the door of Bethesda Naval Hospital or Walter Reed when Iraq and Afghanistan were going full bore. You have no appreciation for the guts it took all of those young men and women to give up the best days of their youth to travel to a hellhole and maybe get blown up in the process, all for precious little you so you can hang out at Starbucks in perfect safety.
People like you disgust me - but at least you didn't volunteer, so we didn't have to put up with your whining and incompetence on our flanks.
And you can take that snide, damnable attitude and go post on Dem Underground, you’ll fit right in. I hope you don’t mean Marietta GA!! I’m moving up toward there soon and I wouldn’t want you anywhere near!
YOU are the moron here. Not Darksheare.
Carly boy here has made previous statements that he hates the military [post removed] that we are skinheads and dog killers [post removed] and that we are mercenaries because we get paid [post removed].
He did not defend those statements, and has not explained himself adequately.
As you see by my one post, I challenged him to make a thread about his position on military pay.
Obviously, he should be able to lay out some reasons for it.
So far, crickets.
I hate cowards and cowardice.
Yes, cowards. And definitely scummy democrats polluting a conservative site.
The defeat of communism was at the hands of veterans while those undeserving twits are busy begrudging the cost.
The only time I wanted to see a C5 was if I was hopping somewhere.
Thanks for some history on the poster...at least it’s consistent.
Consistently stupid.
Oh come on now...;^)
Were you a wrench on them?
They tied up my ramp every time they came in. Either broke for some nonsense or an 18 hour lay over. They never seem to break in Iraq.
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