Army: army of activists

that the person is about to drop the narrative and talk about the reality of things

😛

It is from the top down dude

Of course

Many are still working class, but they fancy having a job, so they aint going to talk up

>far right

the Lib dems are strange, strange creatures

It's also *implicit* that the individual is being reasonably "real" if they're getting into a heavy topic.

if only the tories were far right

like killing is bad, real talk: if someone's trying to kill you it's ok to defend yourself

What would have happened if you had said 1776 can always commence again?

The British army went through a period of encouraging free thinkers (like me) then it shut that shit down when it didn't pan out <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

You have to be mentally diseased to think lib dems are centre

And if all your spined CPL's and LCPL's leave you are left with the crap that do crap things promoting through the ranks, and that is how you end up with a shite military

or that the Brexit party is "Ultra right"

The UK is a literal hellscape

they literally ran communists as candiates lmao

ultra right 😄

Mega right

candidates*

MMMMMMMonster right

The open objective of a move like that is to fill the upper echelons with socjus

Yeah, that's what the phrasing eventually has to go with all the permutations they keep *inventing.*

combined powers of Farage, Johnson and Batten we form the UltraMegaHyper Right

OMEGA RIGHT!!!!!

OMEGA RIGHT!

Its so openly strategic and manipulative

Nah, gotta have the five exclamation marks. Lol

Because you can get away with that within the do as your told environment of the military

Exactly

But like I said it wasn't always like that

Just a note, not all militaries or even branches therein or even sections therein work that way.

They had a time where you could speak openly and honestly, and at times it could border on rebellion (ie soldiers refusing to do things that they knew were garbage), now though that shit has been snapped back in <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

USMC vaunted initiative very very highly as a Leadership Trait.

Basically getting shit done with whatever means available.

The US isn't nearly as cucked as the UK

resistance is futile

joins rungs to form Ohmeniga Right

It's actually baked into the structure of the Corps - with the emphasis on small unit leadership.

Can you imagine what the Swedish army does?

We had the same thing, but if you have 5 blokes under you (like I did) and one of them gets a shit tasking the first question is why some other cunt isn't doing it, usually because they are fat or broken and should therefore be doing the shit taskings

The fit ones should be kept as free as possible to go and do gym or go on trawls and shit 🤷

And a common handwave of err was, "Good initiative, bad judgment." Basically, good try, learning experience.

Everyone says they want people with initiative but they don't always actually mean that

TRUE <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

Eh, though part of the Marines was basically everyone had their time doing the shitwork.

We want free thinkers

No not like that

Everyone does do shit jobs, and that is routine (at least in the UK), but if it seems like the fit ones are constantly doing it then you turn around and say "no, get one of the fat cunts doing it"

yeah initiative is a pain in the ass

some initiations too or so ive heard

Our lot literally started at 0830 and finished at 1530 because I said so <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

And I didn't expect them to work more than 3 days a week

Exceptions being for trawls and shit

Damn, that's too lenient TBH. >.>

Garrison is prep for the field.

As long as the jobs are manned dude and they do it fairly their time was their own

That's why there are drills.

And "fun" runs.

And if someone further up wanted them they had to justify it, if they couldn't justify it I would tell them no

One of the things that used to drive me mad as lowly private was when your CoC thinks that they need to have you for 40+ hours a week so they keep sprog soldiers locked up in a waiting room to be shouted when needed

Millions of better things that we could of been doing (Gym, napping, learning, playing videogames, etc)

My attitude when I got rank was "go away, leave me your numbers, and be here if I call you"

Eh, that shit does suck.. though it was more like focused training time (I was in Comm, so the skills always need to be sharpened) as well as martial training skills and the like.

There really isn't all that much you can do with soldiers day to day tbh

And if you try they just end up hating the job

Cleaning weapons, maybe some lessons, PT, the odd shit job (such as maintenance) but you could do all that in the space of 20 hours a week

And if you don't give the blokes their time off for a good job why should they work hard for you- you just gonna make them do it again or send them back to the waiting room

Well, to clarify by martial training I also mean martial arts.

And sparring & going up belts on it.

Morale is extremely important, as well, without a doubt.

Morale is basically all the British army has tbh <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

That said, I am also talking about the United States Marines- so the impetus to be there because Oorah, Marine Corps is pretty high de facto.

I thought they were gay tbh <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

And the US army too, they used to get up at like 5am and do PT

We do that shit IN the working day, not before

Nah, just hard chargin' motivators.

Also they had some gay flag thing that we used to steal and hide around the camps

Oy, fucking with the guidon is pretty weak. XD

Funny though, watching grown ass men trying to find a stick

they actually had to do a "fire watch" at some point to stop us

Yeah, that's how it would escalate.

It's tie in to unit history.

Which gives those particular symbols some strength that I'd go as far as presuming that most folks in the post-modern environment would both not understand & do long for despite not knowing what they're missing.

Storin, man, stop, you're running army like it's reasonable.

Except it ends up running it into the ground.. why did I end up listening to an audiobook copy of the Art of War on the plane today. XD

https://youtu.be/2azFOX9P0fc

Fascinating exploration of 3-dimensional time

Periods of Time(t1) * Moment(t2) * Passage of Time(t3)

Wait, why am I still awake. >.>

urgh. i just showered and getting going

still AWAKE?

slacker

Yes. I have yet to sleep.

Well, I got to the hotel 2 hours ago..

oh, then that is understandable

And tomorrow I have a 0100 start of the workday so..

And it's 0300ish here.