re: Marine officer shows how to win friends and influence people

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Ivan Snook

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He demands free usage of the public shooting range, saying, "I wrote a blank check to protect your right to go to that range. The least you can do is pay your $10 and not complain about it."





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Yep.

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“I can’t imagine being at a party or some other public gathering discussing my graduate school research analyzing small unit group psychology, veteran suicide and the causes of war atrocities with Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Axel Honneth’s recognition theory, and then having a friend of a friend with no background in philosophy say to me in front of everybody: ‘Wow, that’s f—ing stupid. You’re a real dumbass,’”

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The only part of this he got correct was "Wow, that's fricking stupid. You're a real dumbass."

Mustangs are among the most respected officers in the Marine Corps. I served under one who was exemplary in all respects.

This guy sounds like he's got an inferiority complex comparing himself to the ring knockers.

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Marine veteran Ivan Snook

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That's momentoftruth87.

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I’d argue that we shouldn’t allow you to be an officer unless you’ve served as an enlisted member. Even Academy graduates should be required to serve 2 years first before being eligible to be an officer

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That statement is about as stupid as the idiot elitists that got this thread started!

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I laugh when I get military recruiting offers these days

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Let me guess, they wanted you to be a SEAL

If this guy still has a commission, when I'm elected, he won't have it any longer.

The main problem with the officer corps is the academies. There are no good officers created at any of our academies. Good officers that emerge from the academies are that way in spite of the academies.

There is an extreme level of bias among academy grads and every person of every background in the military can see it - and it's a negative impact on morale.

We need to trim the academies by at least 50% and pull more top performers from the enlisted side for OCS and have a massive purge at the top levels. The ratio of flag officers to others is obscene. Every military in history that has done this has collapsed and failed miserably. We also need slower promotion timelines and roll down in many positions.

The most disheartening thing I saw in the military, with regard to personnel, was that the problems people thought were relegated to the officer corps started showing up on the senior enlisted side. Why did this happen? Because it was happening on the officer side.

Our military personnel system is broken and it's been broken for a long time. In WWII, scores of commanders got fired, re-assigned, then put back into command a second time. This was a good system. In Vietnam, 'ticket punching' became a thing and removal became a career killer so removal became exceedingly rare. Bad commanders were allowed to remain in place and consequences were bad.

A lot of our current problems were initiated by the 'up or out' system which was created with zero regard for leadership evaluation, but instead looked at manpower planning. It failed at both.

It doesn’t matter if an officer is a Mustang or not. What matters is if the officer is trans.

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I’d argue that we shouldn’t allow you to be an officer unless you’ve served as an enlisted member

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Equally dumb hot take.

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A friend of mine was a marine in Vietnam and one of these smart college officers joined them in the field. They were walking down a trail behind the lead man and walked through a mud hole, the smart bastard walked around the mud hole and tripped a mine that killed his brilliant arse and wounded 3 others including my friend. At least this college educated leader didn’t get his boots dirty I guess.

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For every stupid, anecdotal "stupid Lieutenant" story like this I can give you ten stories of Marine lieutenants doing epically heroic stuff for their Marines.

Are there bad lieutenants? Sure. There are morons at every rank. But Marine lieutenants, especially in the infantry, are some of the most dedicated, hardworking, and intelligent men we have.