Anyone else read military books and just think, "Man... did we serve in the same military?"
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Currently reading Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and I'm finding the management lessons useful but man... I'm having a hard time imagining him writing the book without a full-on erection whenever he's describing combat. Because the combat stuff is all OOOH YEAH WE BROUGHT THE FUCKING THUNDER AND WE BROUGHT THE PAIN AND WE STEAMROLLED EVIL AND WE'RE SO GOOD AND GODDAMN WE LOVED SLAUGHTERING MUUUUUUJJJJ MUUUUUUUUUJ AMERICA IS THE FINEST WAR MACHINE IN THE HISTORY OF HUUUMMAAANNITTTTTYYYYY (Erection intensifies to where it's larger than him)
Maybe it's just because I was an ST but I keep reading the book and I'm like "Were we even in the same military together?" Because I knew a lot of cool people during my hitch and I got to shoot guns off the back of the boat and got to see cool places and yeah I got to deploy, which felt exactly the same as being not deployed because my job was looking at a screen... but at the same time... I found the Navy to be fucking exhausting. So much petty shit to put up with... so many chiefs that have no real world skills and basically have to stay in because it's all they have... so many pointless missions.
I mean don't get me wrong. It wasn't all doom and gloom. I enjoyed it more than I didn't enjoy it. I still have my little vanity wall in my man cave with my boat hat and my ribbons and some photos.... but there is just such a disconnect between what I experienced and reading these books that almost read like a recruiting commercial.
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