08/17/2023
The junior Marine: Young, ignorant, gullible, teachable, tenacious, and a powerful tool. Fueled by the next opportunity to fuel their bodies with mind-altering substance looking for the answer to the rage created by themselves as well as their chains of command, all at the bottom of the liquid courage container of choice.
Mentally exhausted from the ever changing “professional” standards of what a Marine is and should be. The condescending tones, meticulous micro-management, the continuous failing of mass punishment, and the forever permanent fact that senior leadership does not give a f**k about them. Well the mass majority sure doesn’t. (Shout out to the ones who continue to try and make a difference in Marines lives.)
The junior Marine is flawed through and through, like any young adult search for self-purpose, learning the high and low roads of true adult hood and the responsibilities it bares. The junior Marine needs guidance professionally (defined in websters, not USMC definition), and personally. He will not learn accountability through mass punishment, he will not learn responsibility by being shunned and labeled a sh*tbag simply because he thinks outside the box of Marine Corps doctrine. He will not learn integrity when leadership is littered with frauds. The junior Marine is best weapon the Marine Corps has in its arsenal, training them in lethality and in the values of manhood make the ultimate, catastrophic enemy for THE enemy, whom ever they be.
What do you guys think? I know there is indifference, let me hear it in the comments