I wanna add to my above post, back to usmc bootcamp many recruits had complained to their DIs asking them "what is the purpose of marching?" and they were told "it's teaching you discipline"=obedience=robot!

Instead of spending most of the time there learning martial arts and becoming an expert at shooting so you can effectively protect your country and defeat its enemies you spend 90% of the time doing marching and getting punished if you're not good and automated like a robot.

After bootcamp in the fleet one day out of the whole year i would get my hands on a rifle and that was the day we take a shooting test. I was shooting sharpshooter and so wanted to improve to expert but couldnt as that's the only day i can get my hands on a rifle, one day out of the whole year where i'm taking a shooting test.

Talk about epic bullshit!

My job was motor t and i would imagine in infantry things would be much better as it's their only job shooting rifles.

Well guess what, we had a shooting competition one day between my battalion and infantry battalion(i didnt participate as i was on the road) where after i came back i found our colonel giving a battalion speech where he was making fun of the infantry and how we smoked them, that they couldnt even throw a damn grenade etc and my jaw was on the floor!

I can already suspect china to be behind the dumbification of our military, where appearance, clean ironed clothing, diet, shaving, haircuts are the only important things and skills/shooting/fighting/being a badass warrior outdated and a thing of the past.

In usmc if you're skinny you're considered automatically a good marine.

If you're even a little overweight, it doesnt matter if you're workaholic, expert at shooting, martial arts etc, you're automatically considered a shitbag just because you're overweight.

I wasnt overweight by the way in case you wonder but damn that shit pissed me off seeing good disciplined work loving marines that could shoot and fight like daniel cromier being considered shitbags just because they're overweight.