This post will take an American perspective as I am American, and an infantry grunts take as I am an infantryman, however, will ultimately answer the question universally.

There was a comment on my post yesterday, one that has now since been deleted, but it posed an interesting question that I feel deserves some attention

Is there anything more blue pill than joining the military?

What a ridiculous notion? How dare someone denigrate something that I hold dear to my heart! I quickly recognized that I was thinking like a feminist, so after a quick session of deadlifts and weighted pull-ups, I returned to the question to think more rationally about it.

By the time I had returned, there was already a full scale debate going on based on that one question which promped /u/nicechallenge to say what we were all thinking at the time. Thanks for the input, bro. I have since given you an upvote to counter the haters.

You are risking your life for patriotism(a ridiculous idea form political elites to manipulate people) to get a paycheck. It's literally dying for someone else in this case the government, is that alpha to you or maybe the most extreme example of a brainwashed beta?

Well is it patriotism? At its face yes, we were sent overseas to Afghanistan in retaliation for 9/11 and later Iraq to capture those WMDs. 9/11 captured the nationalist in us in a way that hadn’t been seen since WWII. I would wager this happened because being so isolated, literally a world away from 2 world wars and many extended conflicts, Americans have never had to deal with unadulterated evil in the same way that other nations have. Historically speaking, there has only been 3 wars -the most recent being the American Civil War ending over 150 years– on American soil. Further, since then we have only been attacked a grand total of 2 times, Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

What does that mean? The first wave joined due to patriotism, and were sent to protect Uncle Sam and all of his citizens from the inherent evil that found a way to reach out and touch us from a third world nation. Is that blue pill? I would say in that sense it isn’t. It isn’t because they joined knowing that the fight was coming and they would be a part of it. They joined because their way of life was threatened. They joined to protect their women and children from the evil that threatened us. But, once we got there we realized that there were no WMDs, and that the Taliban put literally every resource they had at the time into attacking the USA. Yet the war raged on, and the nationalism subsided. So now the reason for fighting has changed as well.

"I did it to protect the freedom of the United States and for my Brothers in arms."

Wish I had a nickel for every time I heard this one. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan raged for nearly 15 years, we live in a world of the 24hr news cycle, we figured out that there were no WMDs after about 4. These guys knew what they were signing up for. They knew that men were dying in a far off land, for a reason they didn’t fully understand, for people they don’t care about, they signed up anyway. Why?

As any serviceman who has been interviewed on the news will tell you, they fought for the man next to them. I did as well, I was the leader of a platoon of 47 men and it was my duty to bring them all home alive. While that is what I fought for, it’s not why I joined.

If you think rationally about that statement, it’s thoroughly ridiculous. Everyone is fighting for each other? I can tell you that some of my soldiers hated each other. Many of them hated the Army in general. And still, how could you sign up for your brothers? You can’t, that’s crazy. Your average private won’t get to his first unit for nearly a year after arriving on the bus to the Ft. Benning School for wayward boys (boot camp).

Now we come to the biggest factor I’ve seen.

"I joined for the money."

And why wouldn’t you? They’re basically giving away goodies worth over half a million dollars just for signing the dotted line. If there was anything “blue pill” about joining the military, it would be those that could only see the dollar signs. Luckily, these are the bottom feeders and would never find their way into a platoon of infantry grunts like mine.

I won’t lie to you. Outside of the combat arms –Infantry, armor, artillery, aviation- the quality of soldier you will find is low, very low. I can tell you that there are women who join the military and get pregnant with 4 consecutive kids, get paid, and never work a day. I can tell you there are criminals and gang members. I know for a fact there are a disturbing number of child molesters (I had a friend who worked at Leavenworth). No organization is safe from blue pilled bottom feeders.

But they are not why I’m writing this article. I wish to represent the 20% of men that step forward for the combat arms, and the 20% of them that volunteered for infantry. There is a unique trait that binds them together.

So why did they join? I know the answer, and most likely, this is the only forum that will understand what I’m about to say

I wanted to go to war.

There I said it. I wanted to go to the fight. I wanted to close with and destroy the enemy. To quote George S. Patton “All my life I’ve wanted to lead a lot of men in a desperate battle. Now I’m going to do it."

The reason I joined is the same reason a militant from ISIS joined, the same reason Germans joined, the same reason knights did it, Romans, Greeks, any warrior really. As men, part of our nature is the warrior. To deny this would be ignorance of the highest degree.

The issue at work is that our feminized and blue pilled society cannot accept that fact. Belief in the cause is just a front that we put on so that lesser people can rationalize that what we were doing there is moral and just. They cannot accept that normal people have it in them to fight and kill. They cannot accept that PTSD is brought on by being ripped from war and their brothers and expected to be civilized again more than weakness or shame or regret. I hate it almost as much as people who say “Thank you for your service”. Bitch, I didn’t do it for you and you probably don’t deserve it anyway.

I don’t give a shit about what the cause was, I still don’t. I really don’t give a fuck about nation building or democracy in Iraq or Afghanistan. All I knew is that I wanted to lead young men into combat and walk out victorious the other side.

If that is not red pill, I don’t know what is.

But back to the initial statement

You are risking your life for patriotism(a ridiculous idea form political elites to manipulate people) to get a paycheck. It's literally dying for someone else in this case the government, is that alpha to you or maybe the most extreme example of a brainwashed beta?

I hate to say this, but I agree with you. For every great young man that I went to war with, there were 5 just like him that weren’t worth the ground they walked on. I wouldn’t say they are brainwashed, they are merely leeches on the system.

Conclusion

The military is a mostly blue pilled organization. You can see that fact since 3 women (who went to West Point, what a fucking surprise) were able to mysteriously pass Ranger School. Women are now open to all combat MOS. They still don’t need to register for the draft. So while the net effect of this post is essentially zero, I wished to take the time aside to describe to you the mindset of the select few worthy of your respect.


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