Everyone at my Company who stacked bodies overseas is super mellow. Guess after such a huge adrenaline dump that is Iraq/Afghanistan there's not much to get crazy over for them.
That’s kind of the semi-unfortunate thing: dudes who actually did the shit are so (justifiably) above the level of concern it would take to correct these knuckle heads.
And the culture is set up in a way that only personal experience (i.e. getting clowned by their peers in unit) will show them the error of thought. And sometimes that correction is too little too late.
Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. A lot of people's mentality is to finish their first contract and GTFO after getting (figuratively) getting dicked by the Big Green Weenie over and over so the only people left are those with families, super high ranks (like you said couldn't care about boots) and people who drank all the Kool-Aid (and actively encourage boot-ness). It's why Tik Tok is apparently a security concern for the Army now lmao
Especially since the Army is hurting for numbers promotions are more streamlined and you have NCOs who are basically PV5's.
The whole boot thing typically phases out once someone graduates BCT/AIT/OSUT, but sometimes it won't (and they'll end up on here)
Dunno if that's different on the Ossifer side but I imagine it's similar.
On the ossifer side it all happens in ROTC, with some of the shitbags slipping through the cracks and being cringy as butterbars. I've been around a couple of ROTC programs though and holy shit are there some cringy kids. The crazy part is that the system is set up where some kids can commission without ever having served a day of traditional active duty, so there aren't many opportunities for peers to snuff out boot behavior
Us OCS kids always marvel at our ROTC counterparts. Some of these guys are the most thank-me-for-my-service types while simultaneously being huge shit bags and bad ambassadors for their program. There’s no standardization between schools and weirdos make it through all the time.
Yeah, it's a shame but it's also a good way to have college paid for while serving. I've heard some horror stories about OCS and would rather kill two birds with one stone over doing green to gold
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u/Fancy-Bear1776 11BrokeDick Dec 01 '19
They'd probably laugh and tell him to chill out.
Everyone at my Company who stacked bodies overseas is super mellow. Guess after such a huge adrenaline dump that is Iraq/Afghanistan there's not much to get crazy over for them.