[ SECRET POST #1943 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1943 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 161 secrets from Secret Submission Post #278.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It was my understanding from comments by my brother's drill sergeant that the point was to make everyone the same.

[tane-the-insane.livejournal.com]

No, the point is to instill the ties of loyalty and trust. The members of your branch are your brothers and sisters, and you have to trust them with your life, the same way they trust you to have their back. The point is to recognize that the day you raise your right hand and swear the oath, you are no longer an individual, and you are no longer your own. You belong to your branch, and every action you commit, every word you say, is your branch. You must never make your brothers and sisters look bad, and you must never go back on your oath. You cannot falter, you cannot fail, because if you do, you are not just failing yourself, you are failing the people that depend on you.

The point is that you belong to something bigger than yourself now. You belong to the uniform, to your branch, to the words you swore to uphold.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, there's something very wrong about the mindset that you're presenting here.

[tane-the-insane.livejournal.com]

To you. It's how I was raised, and what I know. To me, the military is home, family, safety. The ties it creates are everything to me. As long as I can remember, I wanted to be in the military. I don't see anything wrong with wanting to be a part of something bigger than yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

Depends if the thing that is bigger than yourself is full of shit.

[ascend.livejournal.com]

spoken like a true civilian

[(Anonymous)]

So the idea of belonging to a group and caring about it seriously, and behaving in such a way as to uphold the standards which it asks you to uphold, is "very wrong" now. Okey dokey then.

[(Anonymous)]

I was only following orders.

Okey dokey then.

[(Anonymous)]

"I was only following orders" You do realize that, as a general rule, they don't usually put *orders* on how the men interact with each other, right?

Oh wait. You're one of those that refuses to see the other side. Sorry, I forgot.

[lilya7.livejournal.com]

...isn't that also the mindset of dozens of fictional heroes and heroines, also?