not sure if you are serious with that post but I hate to take what you were told away but guess what.
During combat we always and I mean always spoke about certain idiot officers, we spoke against elected official and you know what we all said?
We have every right as others to speak up to each other, we know who are the fools who are not and who we respect,.
Respect is earned, not given, and if a CIC is useless then yes he is put down.
Too many then and now won’t say anything because they care about themselves and their careers and follow blindly.
We are taught to think for ourselves and , yes that mans on all aspects. We don’t just give respect to someone who thinks they deserve it.
Officers, or CIC but I do know that every Sgt MJr I have ever known understands the men and gets respect because of it.
We said that we as marines and soldiers can always win a war but those elected will always lose the war because they have no idea how to fight nor does those who have never served.
If you would like to think we’re all zombies who shut up and follow blindly then s be it but the reality is that we do not in combat units, we make fun of our officers who are idiots, we make fun and put down our CIC once in a while and yes we fight for each other not for the CIC.
If you think we should not make fun of queers or even each other then by all means think of us as a cult but to break it to you with all honesty . We do not have PC in many of us
First of all, I have never been in the military. Everything I have said is based off of second hand knowledge, some of it my Dad, much of it my close friends.
Dad said that they had a guy who was a member of something like the John Birch society (can’t remember what it was now). He was confronted and told he would be booted out of the Army if he didn’t quit the group. This was in the early 60’s
I had a good friend who was in the Army during the Clinton years. He was told by his CO not to read any political books on base, or say anything bad about Clinton. Didn’t stop him (my friend is a bit of a block head), and he got very good at push ups and other punishment details. His opinions weren’t what got him out of the Army though.
I still have a few friends that are active duty. They all have said they have to keep their political opinions under wraps in most situations. If the wrong officer hears you, you can get into a world of trouble. One is thinking about leaving the Marines because of the PC stuff that is going on.