You; child, are a tool. No, let me expand on that... you are a clueless media tool. .
You expect the morale of the nations Army to be good when their lives are being squandered as barganing chips? Do you think the morale on Omaha Beach was good when the troops were pinned in the sand and surf? Morale has toejam to to with unit pride, loyalty and duty, boy. The 'war' in Vietnam would have been over in months if we were allowed to fight it as a WAR.
So morale was horrible. But unit pride was great right? Yeah, thats why there were so many fratricides from 70-73.
Item...the Army I served in was neither a national embarrasement nor imcompetent.
Oh yes, everyone was very pleased with the military. This is why people were spitting, throwing urine, and even shooting returning combat veterans. In fact, everyone was so pleased with our military that returning veterans were immediately issued civilian clothing and told not to ride public transportation. As for imcompetency, that varied greatly from unit to unit.
What? Surely you need to recheck you airsupply. An 18 year old infantry man in 1969 ain't one bit smarter than an 18 year old infantryman in 2003.
In 1969 the ranks were filled with some volunteers, and those who couldn't get out of the draft. Over half the people drafted were somehow able to evade serving. This equates to the lower socio-economic sections of the population serving. Today its guys who are college students looking for tuition deferment that are serving. Education and intelligence are two different things. Today's trooper is much more educated than the Vietnam era soldier.
Ah the crux.. listen up, puppy. The military is not a debating society, our military has not lost a war yet, and berating a pinhead E-2 that does not correctly comply with proccedure is the LEAST the E-5 could have done and kept HIS stripes.
Tell yer pal to get the hell outta my military. I don't want rutabagas guarding my nation.
This wasn't in boot camp. It was some low life individual, like yourself, who didn't know how to treat his troops. This was not some isolated incident either. The U.S. has quite a few low quality NCOs running around screaming, probably not knowing which end of an M16 is up. And where do you get that these are the views of my friend? Bill is a veteran of the first Gulf War (aircraft armorer on a carrier) who was just serving out the rest of his time in the reserves. But if you want, I can pull in a whole list of sources to show that U.S. NCOs have been degrading in quality.
roadkill! that is especially the time when ya berate someone for screwing up.
If I recall correctly, didn't you serve in the Soviet Army milnko? I can understand with conscription and such that your army would have had some uncooperative individuals. But the U.S. military is all volunteer, and this means that troopers actually want to know how to do their job.
