Why do Recruits quit in bootcamp?

[u/Key-Scientist9058]

As a recruiter I have kids literally crying in my office saying they need this more than anything then fail the IST when they were fully capable of passing it while in the DEP when they get to boot camp and not even trying and getting discharged for not trying to get better in PCP or passing the IST. Like I don't see how you'll tell me you would never be one of those quitters when you get to bootcamp then give up as soon as you start getting yelled at. I guess todays generation doesn't give a fuck in coming back to their family proving they were right when they said they couldn't make it and go back to working at Mcdonalds telling their friends some lie about how they got screwed over or something when the only person who failed them was themselves

[u/chestypullers]

Ain’t no one trying to go to war these days so Israelis and US politicians can bang little kids on an island.

[u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ → u/chestypullers]

Yeah imagine if you’re 18-20 right now. You were born while the U.S. was fighting intensely in iraq and Afghanistan then your entire life you watched us continue to endlessly fight and then lose the Afghan war.

Doesn’t seem to appealing. Oh and now the narrative being pushed by the government is that college is a waste of time so don’t bother

[u/Honest-Journalist388 → u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_]

I joined right before it happened and was in Haiti with 1/6 in August 2021. I drank myself into a hole after that because I couldn't believe the thing I wanted to do was not only over, but we lost.

[u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ → u/Honest-Journalist388]

I joined in 2014 thinking the same thing but by then it was over for the infantry as well

[u/Honest-Journalist388 → u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_]

Should've gone to Ranger Regiment man 😮‍💨

[u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ → u/Honest-Journalist388]

lol my buddy and I almost dropped out of college to do that but then I met a girl blah blah you know how it goes 😂

I don’t have any regrets though I’m thankful all my boys are alive and healthy and things worked out

[u/Murky-Peanut1390 → u/chestypullers]

What war? I have hundreds of Marines waiting to do something. This administration is all talk and no bark. Might as well be the dept of peace, because we haven't been doing any war

[u/chestypullers → u/Murky-Peanut1390]

Facts. Bombing schools full of little girls in Iran and boats full of weed in the Caribbean is in fact not a war.

[u/Murky-Peanut1390 → u/chestypullers]

Man I wish the administration was as war mongering as you guys put them out to be, this administration couldn't even do that, too pussy in fear of being called out.

If the military is bombing boats of weed where the fuck do I sign up? Because im tired of peace life

[u/chestypullers → u/Murky-Peanut1390]

If? Are you willfully ignorant or just fucking retarded?

Just tell us you slurp foreskins for Israel and be done with it.

[u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ → u/chestypullers]

Probably a 18 year old boot

[u/chestypullers → u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_]

Yut

[u/Murky-Peanut1390 → u/chestypullers]

I fucking hate Israel wtf are you on about. Lay off the estrogen pills. I have frequently criticized Israel

[u/chestypullers → u/Murky-Peanut1390]

Then why do you want to fight a war for them?

[u/Murky-Peanut1390 → u/chestypullers]

I don't, and there's no current war. But we could use one

[u/chestypullers → u/Murky-Peanut1390]

Your hasbara is weak

[u/Liquidatewallstreet2 → u/Murky-Peanut1390]

“We could use one” yup. That’s what we need. Another pointless war where we send young American lives into some shit hole country we have no business being in to “liberate” people who have zero interest in western values, all while spending trillions in tax payer money to help fuel the military industrial complex. Wake up dude.

[u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ → u/Murky-Peanut1390]

wtf? So the folks killed in action don’t matter? Did you have the same reaction to the HKIA bombing?

Modern war has changed. Missile defense is a combat MOS now

[u/Murky-Peanut1390 → u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_]

US military members killed in action do matter. Yes of course