I believe that there is only one class of US citizen: one who has all the rights and privileges associated with being a citizen.
I strongly do not believe that military, veterans, LEOs, or other government employees are ‘super citizens’ who are entitled to any special rights or privileges that ‘ordinary citizens’ are not.
We are all part of this republic together.
Game. Set. Match.
AC
VMI grad here. VMI teaches strict adhesion to the US Constitution and, more importantly, the value of one’s word. There’s a quote which we must all memorize during our rat year…the Inscription on the Parapet.:
“The healthful and pleasant abode of a crowd of honorable youths pressing up the hill of science, with noble emulation, a gratifying spectacle, an honor to our country and our state, objects of honest pride to their instructors, and fair specimens of citizen-soldiers, attached to their native state, proud of her fame, and ready in every time of deepest peril to vindicate her honor or defend her rights.” —COL J. T. L. Preston
VMI is a VERY conservative school, as is W&L right next door. You won’t find very many lefties even contemplating enrollment there.
EDIT: thanks for not mentioning the Citadel. Brother rats, are you ready?! LETS GO! Rah Virginia Mil! Rah rah rah! Rah rah VMI WHOLE DAMN TEAM!
I agree, and us lowly ROTC grads.
I never understood sports fanaticism. It’s just a game yet people get ridiculously serious about it.
Sports…serious business.
http://sofrep.com/15069/no-shit-there-i-was-stealing-the-navys-mascot/
You never hear of AF CCTs stealing farm animals. Just saying.
More Academy, ring-knocking snobbery…me, I am an OCS man…
I ‘think’ his point of the officer corps in general in in regard to leadership, but the point is regarding values, not rank/position, unit, or skill set.
I like the comment about one class of US citizen…
Simple. For the most part, but with exceptions, it’s the service academy grads that end up being the Senior GO’s and therefore in the leadership postions that are going to have to say no to the National Command Authority. The Joint Chiefs will be the first line to say “NO it’s not a legal order”.
It starts in school sports and then with your own children competing. The best of the best athletic children end up playing for college scholarships and professional contracts. People need something in common to enjoy, not everyone is going to get pumped up from ARs, handguns and weapons training. Different strokes kinda thing…
From '72-'76 at USNA I was taught NOTHING about the Second Amendment (or any other) just the required UCMJ course.
Damn near got fried for Plebe Indoctrination Violation when I asked a Plebe to find out what the Fifth Amendment said and come around. (Not required Plebe knowledge.)
Added: We memorized the oath of office but never once were required to read, much less study, the document we were taking an oath to support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Not effing once.
Stanley McChrystal, W.P. Class of '76, (whose class includes on its class crest the Minuteman with musket and plow), got four stars (Horrywood!) and was on the fast track to JCS until he made the cover of the Rolling Stone, said we need “serious” gun control:
Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal called for “serious” gun control measures on Tuesday, saying the weapons used by his troops in Afghanistan don’t belong on the streets of America.
McChrystal said the M4 Carbine he often carried in the military held a .223 caliber round capable of doing “devastating” damage to a human body.
“It’s designed to do that, and that’s what our soldiers ought to carry,” McChrystal said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday morning. “I personally don’t think there’s any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in America.”
McChrystal suggested that dramatic changes to gun control laws are needed to protect Americans.
“I think serious action is necessary. Sometimes we talk about very limited actions on the edges and I just don’t think that’s enough,” he said.
Do you think there are not others like him? If McCrystal would have a soldier kick in a door in Whatthefuckistan to seize an AK, do you think he wouldn’t order a soldier to kick in my door to seize my AR?
What are you smokin’?
It probably would give him reason to kick in the door and take your AR because you don’t have a prescription or it is illegal under federal law and you are therefore barred from possessing it.