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"Not Today, Sir." Awaiting the Rebellion
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Pat,
I don't know why I'm so easily offended by the line of "reasoning" which appears in some of your c&p posts. I should be used to them by now. This writer makes an interesting allegation: that the regular army begins and ends with the officer corps. (Yes I know, there was that line about the Gunny sergeant) but a lot of professional non-coms would be pretty put out by this guy's view of how the army is set up. His biggest failure of logic (if you could call it that) is the lack of parallel between the Nam era's draft army and today's all volunteer force. He might be right in predicting a unit may consider itself unable to continue. I think he has connected the wrong dots. Les
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Re: "Not Today, Sir." Awaiting the Rebellion
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My boss is a hardcore hawk, with a son someplace up north in Iraq, but he got a laugh out of this. He was an enlisted man his entire career, and generally considers officers morons.
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Re: Re: "Not Today, Sir." Awaiting the Rebellion
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"You know what the most painful part of becoming an officer is. No, what? Well, it's not when they cut off your balls. It's not when they fix your eyes so that you look only straight ahead. Well, what is it then? It's when they stick that long tube up your nose and suck out half you brain that really hurts." |
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Rather than outright disobedience, wouldn't the more likely effect be falling re-enlistment rates? And increasing use of stop-loss orders, re-enlistment bonuses, use of Guard and Reserves, etc?
Today's troops are volunteers rather than draftees, and the rate of casualties they face is much lower than in Vietnam. Thus they might not react the same as did Vietnam-era soldiers.
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