The Army actually conducted a similar survey recently. Younger soldiers were more likely to comply.
I assume it would take little effort to downsize older soldiers out of the service...
I haven't seen any such survey, but I'll accept what you say at face value.
Having said that, I would guess that any survey of the military on virtually any subject since the founding of our republic would have had similar results. Younger soldiers sit at the bottom of the rank structure and tend to put their trust in their leadership to do the right thing, point them in the right direction, and have good reasons behind their orders.
Too bad for those younger soldiers there are millions of veterans who will oppose their idiocy.
“The Army actually conducted a similar survey recently. Younger soldiers were more likely to comply.”
This is not directed at you RC one, but at certain individuals.
No, the army didn’t conduct a recent survey. The last survey done was in the 1990s when boy Clinton was infesting the Whitehouse. That survey, conducted by a Naval officer, polled Marines. Sixty-four percent said that they wouldn’t obey orders to shoot their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters in their beds.
That means that most Marines aren’t goosestepping gestapo. I’ll extrapolate that result and apply it to our comrades in the Army.
The only correct bit of info is that 18-year-old boots and privates might - possibly - be willing to obey orders. That attitude will be corrected by platoon sergeants and company captains.
Now, can we finally, once and for all, stop this GD inference that our military brothers and sisters are goosestepping gestapo mass murderers? I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with certain FReepers insisting that our soldiers and Marines are mindless Nazi killers.
Thank you.