most of the military is guys who stood in a tent handing out socks or guarding an empty hallway.
only between 5-12% are actually trained infantry and fire their weapon in a combat zone. the rest of it is Paul Blart with a fake wooden gun in a holster inventorying a warehouse of decayed equipment in Arkansas.
I was friends with a guy who served in the detail assigned to guard the American Embassy in Russia as a member of the... I want to say it was the Marines? Dude routinely complained about what a shitty job it was, how poorly he was paid, how obnoxious the bureaucracy was, how just kinda there he was for most of the rotation.
The idea that he's going to rally to the defense of an embattled US Government because someone in Portland throws a petro-bomb at the mayor's house is crazy. He's not invested in this shit any more than he's invested in his current day job.
most of the military is guys who stood in a tent handing out socks or guarding an empty hallway.
only between 5-12% are actually trained infantry and fire their weapon in a combat zone. the rest of it is Paul Blart with a fake wooden gun in a holster inventorying a warehouse of decayed equipment in Arkansas.
I was friends with a guy who served in the detail assigned to guard the American Embassy in Russia as a member of the... I want to say it was the Marines? Dude routinely complained about what a shitty job it was, how poorly he was paid, how obnoxious the bureaucracy was, how just kinda there he was for most of the rotation.
The idea that he's going to rally to the defense of an embattled US Government because someone in Portland throws a petro-bomb at the mayor's house is crazy. He's not invested in this shit any more than he's invested in his current day job.
Yeah, typically embassy guards from the military are Marines.
Redoing my math, the veterans are actually outnumbered roughly 108 to 1 taking this into account.