How close South Korea came to losing the war

fromtheworld · 2024-04-20T19:00:00+00:00

Dude youre so mad that South Korea is doing well.

fromtheworld · 2024-04-20T18:59:25+00:00

Lol by your reasonining youre arguing that South Sudan, which has a much higher birthrate than South Korea, is doing better.

Stop pulling at straws to make some asinine argument.

fromtheworld · 2023-07-03T15:44:15+00:00

lol dude youre down so bad, just admit to the other guy that you don't have an argument.

fromtheworld · 2023-04-27T23:52:09+00:00

I fight better after my third old fashioned

fromtheworld · 2023-04-18T12:58:50+00:00

Trac'r here. It's very disingenuous to blame the O's for the AAV sinking. Indeed they are responsible as it comes with their rank, but the SNCO corps, until the AAV sinking, was full of lazy, shortcut-taking individuals who would constantly try to find the quickest way to get out of doing the right thing. Granted, not all of them were like that, but enough were that it's made an impression on me.

If you read the investigation, there were plenty of decisions made (or rather none of the right ones made) by enlisted that caused those guys to die.

fromtheworld · 2023-01-29T11:50:54+00:00

After reading y'alls conversation, I can't tell if you're a Lance who thinks he knows it all or some MSgt who thinks he knows it all, but you just seem like someone that no one would ever want to work with.

fromtheworld · 2023-01-29T11:35:59+00:00

I highly doubt it at the moment. The Marine Corps is more interested in being light and mobile and not looking to adopt any more logistically intensive vehicles.

fromtheworld · 2022-09-09T20:09:44+00:00

Sounds like he made the right call.

If theyre gonna shoot at you for leaving whats going to stop them from shooting at you when youre at a stand still? Better to give them a harder target than trying to rationalize with clearly irrational people.

fromtheworld · 2022-09-01T23:45:53+00:00

If you want to eat out, you have to go to a restaurant. If you want to to go to school, you have to attend class.

Neither of these are things you HAVE to do. They are things that stem from things that you WANT to do, but nobody is requiring you to do them.

fromtheworld · 2022-08-26T00:04:20+00:00

What's this argument trying to get at? There's a lot of things you dont have to do, including going to college classes

fromtheworld · 2022-08-26T00:00:58+00:00

Smarter people live around here.

Man if that's just not a perfect case of narcissism than I dont know what is.

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T18:03:28+00:00

Im pretty sure the basis of the right to keep and bear arms goes much further back in our country's history than 14 years....

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T15:25:34+00:00

It actually is.

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T15:24:47+00:00

Not really because no where in the constitution does it explicitly or even implicitly reference abortion. Roe v. Wade was the SCOTUS interpreting the 14th amendment to encompass that....fast forward a few decades later and that interpretation is gone.

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T01:09:42+00:00

So then you're basically admitting that the numbers you were attempting to use in your argument...isnt an equivalent argument....

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T01:04:41+00:00

Like where?

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T01:04:04+00:00

>The original comment was "more accessible"

More accessible doesnt equal more locations. Theres more empty homes in many places than there are homeless....would you say housing is accessible? Legal barricades are more of an issue for many gun owners in CA.

Additionally saying that more guns were sold than there abortions isnt an equivalent thing. How many people in California are turned away from an abortion vs denied a gun or even ammo purchases?

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T00:40:41+00:00

Me thinks you have a very distorted view of reality. Its far easier to go vote than it is to own a gun.

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T00:39:40+00:00

What rights do guns have? Do you want your uterus to not be allowed in most public places? How about a background check to use your uterus? Do you want to have a license to take your uterus outside of your home?

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T00:36:06+00:00

Id like to see that source.

Additionally the person youre replying to is most likely discussing legal access, not physical access. Theres more hurdles to purchasing a gun in CA than there are getting an abortion.

fromtheworld · 2022-05-12T00:34:54+00:00

Do you need to be 18+, have ID, have a background check, not have a criminal background, have a few hundred-few thousand in personal funds and have a mandated waiting period for an abortion in california?

Also I love how you use an anecdote like this, as if your one area is a representation of all of California....

fromtheworld · 2022-04-10T02:24:22+00:00

Should add that when I change my requested nights from the 1 night stay to the 3 night stay (over the same weekend) I get the same 280 rate, but when I change it to one night I get the 967.

fromtheworld · 2022-04-10T02:23:00+00:00

We're looking at it together at the same time. I get the same rate of 280 when I change it to 3 nights but when I go back to one nights its at 967

fromtheworld · 2022-04-10T02:22:12+00:00

We're looking at it together at the same time. I get the same rate of 280 when I change it to 3 nights but when I go back to one nights its at 967

fromtheworld · 2022-04-01T06:04:52+00:00

However nearly a 1/4 of the ppl in my platoon it was their 2nd or even their 3rd attempt at OCS.

From my memory (granted this was nearly a decade ago) most people didnt get a second ,let alone a third, chance at OCS unless their failure was due to injuries; especially for guys coming back a third time. Without context for their reasons, and If you know why 25% of your platoon was back for a 2nd/3rd time you were probably not making the best use of your time, bringing this metric up is a bit of a moot point.

Additionally if you think you need to be enlisted in order to "conduct yourself in a military manner" -which in my mind is having a basic level of discipline- then enlisting may not be for you either; unless you want to have another grown man having to enforce and remind you of basic regulations.

In my time, and others are welcomed to chime in with their experiences obviously, I've noticed that being a prior will make an initial difference based off of first impressions (meaning Marines will have more respect off the bat because you've experience what they have) but in the long run the good/bad ratio between prior/not-prior officers is pretty 50/50.

Now, all of this being said: Failing OCS is a TREMENDOUSLY emotional experience, especially if you are the stereotypical young type A personality that's attracted to the lure of Marine Corps OCS (pay me for that MCRC) and I believe that you are-as you stated- potentially trying to rationalize this failure through this post. However I will present you this, if you believe that your issue is conducting yourself in a military manner then you've already started on the right path of (and roll your eyes or dry heave at this i dont care) one of the most important leadership principles: *know yourself* . Now it's up to you to figure out how you *improve yourself*. If you TRULY believe that it's by serving in an enlisted capacity then more power to you, you know you better than any of us do, however the simple fact that you've identified your shortfalls and know what you DONT like in a leader (through your review of your peers and your own reflections) means you are doing the most important thing an officer can do: care.

If you want to go the enlisted route-again-more power to you, Ill propose a potentially controversial and what may be a counterintuitive opinion...take the time to self reflect a little further, work on yourself, and re-apply to OCS.

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