re: The idea of equality for all in the military is comically wrong ...

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Wrong..


Equality is BEING equal.

Not merely treating everyone as if they were equals.

Treating everyone the same way is courtesy.

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What the frick? Are you under the impression that everyone is equal?

Is the guy with poor eyesight to be make an equal sniper to the guy with superior eyesight so that you might feel better about yourself?

That's not how the military works . Instead the military almost immediately begins classifying people . I was 17 years old when I joined the Army, went to boot camp the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, then finished high school then went to my advanced training.

Anyway in basic training they start separating people out right away. This person is not keeping up so he has to run extra, or do extra pushup , or clean the latrine every night, or pull extra fire guard duty, or whatever. This person is NOT equal to everyone else here. You don't want to be treated like this person, so strive to be equal to everyone else here, but you are NOT equal by virtue of existing.

That's the entire point of military training. When I was 19 I was in Iraq and my CO at the time told me "son, you don't belong in this unit, why the frick aren't you in college? When we cycle home you're going to college" Far as I know out of my company of 200 something men and women I'm the only that that CO essentially ordered to go to college on the Army's dime. Should they have done so for all 200 people there so they were "equal?" I doubt anyone would answer yes to that question.