Posted on Mar 15, 2018
What is your most radical or unpopular opinion concerning the military?
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Having to work for a poor and negatively aggressive chief and not being able to walk away.
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The military is not a safe place to be. I never served in combat but in both Korea and Europe, there were training fatalities, some involving alcohol, all from violating some safety protocol. What with long hours, heavy machinery, weapons, explosives, and stress, it is a tribute to the military fatalities are not higher.
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That “A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America,” for an amount up to and including their life.” In addition, to the everyone thinking that they should get a check for the rest of their lives by blaming everything on their "military duty."
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SPC Chris Ison
I have seen this in a few veterans at the VA. They all have the same story too, They lost my medical records or, my favorite, my medical records are classified and they can't get them...
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That we should as a nation be required to know and understand the articles of the freedom we defend. that our history and constitution should be made part of public school curricula to include small arms safety training. The 2nd amendment is not a privilege its a birthright it needs to be taken seriously or we risk losing it. That means teaching kids safety at an early enough age so they aren't fascinated by guns later And, finally that t should include a compulsory 15 mos to 4 years commitment to serve. Those that are unsuited could do Peace Corps or a similar sanctioned humanitarian mission. But since the end of the draft this nation has become gentrified and servile. Civs see us as 2d characters they are either afraid of our potential melt down or we are some icon incapable of doing wrong. Both are untrue and that isolation and gentrification are the recipe for end of empire. IMO
Bayonet!
Bayonet!
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SPC Chris Ison
The second amendment is not a right for the individual to bear arms, it is the right of the states to keep an militia. that is why it says " A well regulated MILITIA being necessary for a free state..."
The founding fathers were anti military, they lived with the British army in and among them, that is why we have the third amendment to prevent the housing of military units within the civilian populace. Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution grants congress the right to regulate the militia and to discipline it, and specifically grants the states the right to appoint officers. It also specifically limits congress from funding an army for more than 2 years.
We don't need an armed populace if the police power is in the hands of the state militia where it belongs.
But you keep drinking that NRA Kool Aid.
The founding fathers were anti military, they lived with the British army in and among them, that is why we have the third amendment to prevent the housing of military units within the civilian populace. Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution grants congress the right to regulate the militia and to discipline it, and specifically grants the states the right to appoint officers. It also specifically limits congress from funding an army for more than 2 years.
We don't need an armed populace if the police power is in the hands of the state militia where it belongs.
But you keep drinking that NRA Kool Aid.
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SGT Bryan O'Reilly
That actually makes more sense. I also see why thanks for clarifying that for me, Chris.
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That a 2LT out ranks a CSM! I would of love to have seen a 2LT tell a CSM to get down and push! Who could fantom some one with 25 years plus in service could be told to push by sum one with less than a year in service! But it is possible, and the ones that knows this is the CSM! Why you think 2LT and officers get awards deserserved or awards upgraded' because CSM says so because senior non- commisinoed advisor knows rank structure; thay just not going to let a subordinate know .....
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MSG John Duchesneau
Okay Private - what rank do you propose should outrank a CSM - a captain or maybe a major? Should CSMs be saluted? If so, why not make them officers? Think it though and get back to me.
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CPL Any Jim
No im saying even a 2lt of commisioned officers corp ' out ranks a csm .... Salute a csm for what ? Thay technically have no responabilty what so ever ! Why would a LTC with a masters degree need advice from a csm with a GED ? If csm does have some education than why did thay not step over to command officer side ' scared of responability ? Uneducated create misleads to over compensate ! Biggest mislead in service that a csm is for the troops ??? csm is senior advisor of rank from crpl to their rank ! csm has nothing to do with prvt to spc or 2lt an above ! LTC is signed for troops pretty much as equipment from pvt to commisioned officer rank below them and cpl thru csm is sub hand recipted to csm .... I do not see why there is a non commisioned officer rank over SFC ! It should be once you get to SFC if want to continue you career have to go 2lt .... I say this because big issue i seen in service was age discripancy between i.e. a first sgt and 2lt or csm and 2lt . 2lt out ranks a 1sg and csm ' but most 1sg and csm had dumb mentalty that aint no commisioned officer wit a year in service going to tell me what to do ? 1sg and csm are the bag boys for 2lt and 1stlt but 1sg and csm act thay way thay act bc by time 2lt gets any real rank that 1sg or csm considered real thay will be retired and stealing a pension sitting at home bc what did thay really do last five years in service ' what did thay physically sign what did thay phiscally approave with thay signature what did thay physically deny with their signature ? If you have sum examples , lol than let me know ? Can a csm approave leave , transtion leave , or a red cross message leave with their signature ?
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The paper work and the amount of it is absolutely maddening. The levels of approval from an idea takes months and sometimes years.
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That the military has evolved, and not in a good way. It used to be if a military member screwed up they would be punished sure but it would be handled at the platoon or company level and they would be 'retrained' by their respective NCO's and rehabilitated to the betterment of the respective service. Sure there were some that got removed but those were the ones that actually did something that could not BE rehabilitated. These day we are too quick to discharge a service member for something that back in the day would have gotten a summarized, a retrain and then the member would be able to resume. Now we lose valuable members and in a time where some branches are finding it hard to even find minimally qualified candidates, let alone keep them.
The military needs to STOP doing political BS missions. We are not a police force and yet for decades its exactly what we have been doing.
The military needs to STOP doing political BS missions. We are not a police force and yet for decades its exactly what we have been doing.
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SPC Chris Ison
They also need to start discharging people who can no longer do the MOS they signed up for instead of retraining broken soldiers into admin positions and allowing them to retire; You get broken, you get discharged and the VA pays you, that is how it works.
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When you wear a uniform, you represent the group of people who has fought to preserve our nation's freedom and safety of it's citizens. The uniform represents far more than one service member to the average civilian. Let them give you thanks and be graceful about it. They may never interact with another service member or veteran. You may be the only one person they have had the opportunity to express their gratitude to.
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Our medical retirement system is unfair to the taxpayers. It's way too easy for someone who was only in the military for 2 years to get paid for life. This is a job, a honorable job, but still a job. If Walmart retired everyone who gets hurt and pay them for life, then Walmart will be bankrupt.
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SPC Chris Ison
if you do 2 years, and you get compensation, that doesn't mean your getting a lot of money, basic 10% rating is like 120 dollars a month.
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