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To: servo1969

We learned around week 2 of USMC Boot Camp that the military is not a democracy.


5 posted on 05/26/2015 1:53:20 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: ErnBatavia; All

I learned that day 1 of navy boot camp


6 posted on 05/26/2015 1:54:24 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: ErnBatavia

Further democracies suck compared to constitutional republics.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. We are facing this problem in our country much more now.


7 posted on 05/26/2015 1:57:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ErnBatavia
I think she missed that classic web post on The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the US Army.

Quoting #57: The proper response to a lawful order is not “Why?”

23 posted on 05/26/2015 2:21:44 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: ErnBatavia

If it took your Drill Instructors 2 weeks to teach you that, they were NOT DOING THEIR JOB.
I learned that within 2 steps off the buss, IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS.


38 posted on 05/26/2015 2:46:52 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: ErnBatavia

The military is an authoritarian socialist subculture.


48 posted on 05/26/2015 3:36:12 PM PDT by captain_dave
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