Don’t disagree with anything you wrote. Camping (not Glamping), hunting (not drinking) and marksmanship can all be done without being in a military ran by unworthy people. Obviously there’s great officers and enlisted. But the social experiments, medical experiments, and idiocy must continue…
I wouldn’t encourage a single person to join our military. We defend and die for foreign countries as we leave our border open, allow the flow of killer drugs, and let criminal violence loose on the streets. The unworthy who run things want it this way and hate everyone. They say it everyday.
As a veteran myself, I agree with you completely. However, it’s hard to duplicate the camaraderie and shared sense of purpose that the military provides. That said, those two things alone don’t make the risks of the experience worth it.
On the other hand, learning and experiencing the hypocrisy, reverse Darwinism and and the generally low common denominator of the military provides a clearer perspective to cut through the propaganda that is fed to society and young men particularly. Once you’ve been there, it’s nearly impossible to get conned by a bunch of chairborne Rangers and don’t feel the need to “prove” anything to them or believe their self-aggrandizing bullshit.
Which brings me to my last and final point. Eager, dedicated and impressionable young men with little real world experience can be brought down the garden path and into allot of potential trouble if the wrong crowd gets to them first. I’ve seen that happen, and it’s downright depressing. It’s important to have enough street-smarts to know the difference, and sometimes that’s hard to get without making the kind of mistakes that joining the military offers.
You would leave the artillery and other heavy ordnance in the hands of our enemies, or at least not ours? What sort of artillery officer were you?
This is dangerous nonsense.
I say that after over 20 years and 5 deployments, including 2 wartime ones in Iraq. Yes small arms skills can be acquired outside the military. War skills cannot.
This is rich “If you are a young man joining the military so you can gain skills for when “shit hits the fan” you can acquire those traits just as well outside the military as within it. “
No, you can’t. Far worse you cannot acquire the heavy ordinance.
Your advice is to leave the real weapons to our enemies, I question that you are a friend.
"You would leave the artillery and other heavy ordnance in the hands of our enemies, or at least not ours?"
The reprobates controlling the senile old pedophile who has been soiling the sheets in the White House these past three years left $billions of ordinance, heavy arms and armor to the Taliban.
You itching to put yourself under their command again? Or better yet, under the command of a mentally ill degenerate that wakes up each morning and pry's open a bloody ax wound where his junk used to be before putting on xer BDU's?
Thank you for this encouragement and useful advice for men. It look a long time for me to stop feeling inadequate for not successfully joining my nation's military, but I finally see it was a blessing and not a curse. Compared to the recruits the military is dealing with, you can become far better at the traditional masculine arts by just setting aside your free time to pursuing their development- and without needing to sell your soul to Globohomo.
"In addition, my critics generally overestimate how much actual training military units get."
I agree 100%.
Combat is the best teacher for combatants. No one can teach a guy how to remain calm in chaos; it's something that has to be learned by doing. In the mean time, as the author says, head out to the range. Not only is it great training, it's where you're going to meet your new friends.
The most important thing young men can do today is train with barbells. There is no better way to develop strength, discipline, courage, and objectivity. Our military, with its absurd weight requirements and anachronistic focus on running and calisthenics, actively selects against having big, strong men in the ranks. I think it's because it secretly hates the self-sufficiency that they embody.
If you insist on having a manly job, be a fireman instead of a soldier. It’s less gay and you are far more likely to get laid.
Don’t disagree with anything you wrote. Camping (not Glamping), hunting (not drinking) and marksmanship can all be done without being in a military ran by unworthy people. Obviously there’s great officers and enlisted. But the social experiments, medical experiments, and idiocy must continue…
I wouldn’t encourage a single person to join our military. We defend and die for foreign countries as we leave our border open, allow the flow of killer drugs, and let criminal violence loose on the streets. The unworthy who run things want it this way and hate everyone. They say it everyday.
Want to serve? Serve your family.
As a veteran myself, I agree with you completely. However, it’s hard to duplicate the camaraderie and shared sense of purpose that the military provides. That said, those two things alone don’t make the risks of the experience worth it.
On the other hand, learning and experiencing the hypocrisy, reverse Darwinism and and the generally low common denominator of the military provides a clearer perspective to cut through the propaganda that is fed to society and young men particularly. Once you’ve been there, it’s nearly impossible to get conned by a bunch of chairborne Rangers and don’t feel the need to “prove” anything to them or believe their self-aggrandizing bullshit.
Which brings me to my last and final point. Eager, dedicated and impressionable young men with little real world experience can be brought down the garden path and into allot of potential trouble if the wrong crowd gets to them first. I’ve seen that happen, and it’s downright depressing. It’s important to have enough street-smarts to know the difference, and sometimes that’s hard to get without making the kind of mistakes that joining the military offers.
You would leave the artillery and other heavy ordnance in the hands of our enemies, or at least not ours? What sort of artillery officer were you?
This is dangerous nonsense.
I say that after over 20 years and 5 deployments, including 2 wartime ones in Iraq. Yes small arms skills can be acquired outside the military. War skills cannot.
This is rich “If you are a young man joining the military so you can gain skills for when “shit hits the fan” you can acquire those traits just as well outside the military as within it. “
No, you can’t. Far worse you cannot acquire the heavy ordinance.
Your advice is to leave the real weapons to our enemies, I question that you are a friend.
"You would leave the artillery and other heavy ordnance in the hands of our enemies, or at least not ours?"
The reprobates controlling the senile old pedophile who has been soiling the sheets in the White House these past three years left $billions of ordinance, heavy arms and armor to the Taliban.
You itching to put yourself under their command again? Or better yet, under the command of a mentally ill degenerate that wakes up each morning and pry's open a bloody ax wound where his junk used to be before putting on xer BDU's?
Enjoy.
Thank you for this encouragement and useful advice for men. It look a long time for me to stop feeling inadequate for not successfully joining my nation's military, but I finally see it was a blessing and not a curse. Compared to the recruits the military is dealing with, you can become far better at the traditional masculine arts by just setting aside your free time to pursuing their development- and without needing to sell your soul to Globohomo.
"In addition, my critics generally overestimate how much actual training military units get."
I agree 100%.
Combat is the best teacher for combatants. No one can teach a guy how to remain calm in chaos; it's something that has to be learned by doing. In the mean time, as the author says, head out to the range. Not only is it great training, it's where you're going to meet your new friends.
The most important thing young men can do today is train with barbells. There is no better way to develop strength, discipline, courage, and objectivity. Our military, with its absurd weight requirements and anachronistic focus on running and calisthenics, actively selects against having big, strong men in the ranks. I think it's because it secretly hates the self-sufficiency that they embody.