Interesting. You hear loads of stories of boots getting their shit chewed out by their officers but I rarely see many stories from the perspective of the officer. I guess that’s probably just a result of the officer:grunt ratio in general. I’d like to read more of them.
Speaking of which, is there a c/militarystories yet? I liked those on reddit.
Or they know bragging about it on the Internet without rank to protect them will get them dogpiled.
I could just have been commanded by some softies, but officers don’t generally have the constitution to get personally attacked. Think about it, they literally wrote the rules that say enlisted can go to jail for shit talking them.
Interesting. You hear loads of stories of boots getting their shit chewed out by their officers but I rarely see many stories from the perspective of the officer. I guess that’s probably just a result of the officer:grunt ratio in general. I’d like to read more of them.
Speaking of which, is there a c/militarystories yet? I liked those on reddit.
My senior drill instructor said he liked my tenacity when I graduated. That was it. He was a man of few words.
Or they know bragging about it on the Internet without rank to protect them will get them dogpiled.
I could just have been commanded by some softies, but officers don’t generally have the constitution to get personally attacked. Think about it, they literally wrote the rules that say enlisted can go to jail for shit talking them.
One could certainly note that those rules started when enlisted vs commissioned was peasant vs aristocrat.
No, they didn’t. Those officers didn’t have shit to say on the UCMJ.
The podcast What A Hell Of A Way To Die talks about this from first person perspectives on both sides a lot, and is generally pretty great all around.
I’m waiting for c/justbootthings.