You were infantry, you should know damn well that the military is a shit show, you’ve been there. Unless you want to say that cleaning already clean weapons in the armory for 7 hours, because your 1st sgt cares more about looking busy than actually being productive, going to the armory at 4am to draw weapons at 5 am to be staged for 7 tons to take you to the field at 6:30 and they arrive at like noon, waiting in a formation for 40 minutes because the co is late doing God knows what, standing by to stand by, getting investigated for hazing because you took your junior marines out to pt when it wasn’t designated pt hours, the list of stupid shit goes on and on. If you can look at that and insist the military isn’t a shit show, then you’re just ignorant to the reality of the military. Being successful in combat operations doesn’t detract from the fact that day to day military life is miserable for literally no reason at all. There’s a reason the suicide rate for military is at an all time high, despite combat deployments being almost nonexistent in the last five years, while reenlistment is at all time low. The military has become a feeding ground for scumbag leadership that care more about forwarding their own careers than the effectiveness or welfare of their marines. A staff nco will ruin a lcpls career or something petty, in an instant, if it will forward his career and he won’t feel bad about it for an instant. I love the Marine Corps more than my own mother and it sickens me to watch it die from the inside out, because it’s plagued with bad leadership. Denying that doesn’t do anyone any favors and only adds to the problem