i find this article very interesting.
i agree totally with it.

Tattoo aside, we all reach a general consensus that army guys are big-muscled, all brawn, no brain and downright stupid creatures who march around mindlessly while shooting one another with their glistening M-16 rifles.


The Army is a stupid place.

Queer enough, it almost feels as though I'm outrightly insulting and cussing at my own intelligence since I'm every bit a true-blue military personnel this very moment.

OK. Make that a conscripted,, unwilling, sour and grumpy true-blue military personnel.

As if it really isn't bad enough for the likes of us army guys to be labelled scornfully as sexually deprived, testesterone-laden, ragingly-desperate perverts who leap and yelp at the sight and smell of every passing female, we have to grapple with the warped general perception that soldiers are every inch brawn and no brains.

BAH!

Lemme correct this unwarranted societal perspectives and set your badly contorted and misaligned views into place.

I am a soldier.
I am every bit smart and highly inteliigent.
But apparently, a smart soldier is pretty much a friggin dead oxymoron.
There lies as much truth in calling a soldier smart as labelling armpit hair to be sweet smelling.
As a soldier, the glowering presence of harsh military laws ensues the strict and uncompromised adherance of orders and commands, bulk-transforming us into mindless zombies who cannot think on our feet and act out of our own discretion and initiative.

Test the system, tread into danger waters, flout a rule and face the risk of being cast into military jail where you'd relish in the pleasure of carrying sandbags topless under the sweltering midday sun.

And if it scares you, sharp objects are banned in military jail, so ya can well forget about bringing in razors to shave your pubic hair with.Oh yes, and in there, masturbation is a crime as well.

Scary.

Which of course bears rational explanations for the countless silly army practices such as shining your boots to the extent of being able to see your teeth glow on the reflective leather, only to trudge through swamps and marshes with the very same pair of boots hours later.

Or for any matter, be forced to sing infantile, nonsensical and explicitly profane army songs and chatter at the top of your voices alongside gasping for darn breath while running your lungs out through an entire 10km.

And what's with the need to RUN in step?!?

Left Right Left Right Left Right Left!

Marching in tandem and precision is perfectly understandable but HELLOOOO....RUNNING in synchronised footwork seems pretty absurd and irrationale to me.


"In the Army, we talk about UNIFORMITY! We live as ONE, train as ONE and suffer as ONE! UNIFORMITY IS DISCIPLINE!"


BAH!!!! DOUBLE BAH!!! TRIPLE BAH!!!

Uniformity MY ARSE!
They can SUCK MY COCK for all I care because co-relating uniformity to the ideals of discipline is an utter load of rigid, stupid and gibberish rubbish!

I cannot figure out, to the best of my intelligence, how arranging undergarments and toiletries in the exact cupboard layout as the rest of the entire hundred strong company effectively bars a soldier from contravening rules and doing things like stabbing his peers with his bayonet or setting his commander's office on fire.

The individual soldier is NOT stupid. Of course, there might be some who really are...but that aside...

It's the organisation, with it's massive barrage of senseless, traditional, old-school, rigid and ultimately unreasonable demands and orders which overrides all forms of personal intelligence, replacing them with apparent dumbness and a bleak, absurd facade of conformity.

There you go!
Uniformity = Discipline.

FUCK IT

SHUT YOUR FARKING ARSE AND DON'T TALK BACK SOLDIER!

As long as you don your green camos and that silly looking beret, you are NOT ENTITLED to brains of your own, let alone any mere fraction of intelligence.


Here's Army Stupidity on a outward, massive, big scale and public basis.

The military plays big on ranks.
Have a high rank and get to flaunt it around, fucking anyone below you as and when you feel like it.
Suffer the humiliation of a low rank and run the risk of getting fucked around till ya arse bleeds and goes sore.

Here's a look at the officers' rank structure, in ascension of seniority.



Everytime I look at these, I feel highly compelled to stick out my middle finger and then cuss and swear at these rank insignias because the fuckers donning them are those I have to senselessly salute to and greet, another mindless hierarchial demands of the uniformed services.

Anyway, the ranks rise in seniority from the Lieutenants to the full-fledged Colonels.

YESH! Colonel as in pudgy Colonel Sanders from the American state of Kentucky who used to deep fry chicken in his eleven secret herbs and spices for a living.

To digress a lil, Colonel Sanders WAS NOT at all a Colonel.
He was, instead, a travelling salesman who adopted the military salutation preceding his name for I dunno what fucking reason.

INTERESTING!

There's something called a 2nd Lieutenant below Lieutenant but in my opinion, I think the ONE, MEASLY bar standing all aloof and by itself looks too damn pathetic to even be displayed on my blog, so I decided to leave that out and give it a miss.


"Eh...it ends at the Colonel ah? Where are the Generals?"

PATIENCE.
We wouldn't leave out the awe-inspiring, hotshot Generals of course, but this is also where the disgustingly stupid part comes rolling in.

A lil background technicality before we proceed...SIMPLE ONE LAH!

There're 3 varying General ranks, namely...

1) Lieutenant-General
2) Major-General
3) Brigadier-General

Let's play a game shall we?

In all COMMON SENSE and by LOGICAL DEDUCTIONS, order the these 3 ranks in ascension of seniority, given the fact that Brigadier is a rank above Major, just so that it's kinda obsolete and non-existent in the rank hierarchy in present time.



Since a Brigadier is higher than a Major which in turn is higher in rank than a Lietenant...

Would your logical answer be...

1) Lieutenant-General -> smallest
2) Major-General
3) Brigadier-General -> Biggest


?????


















WRONG WRONG WRONG!




STUPID army reasonings dictate, with a total lack of common sense and reasoning, that a Lieutenant-General supercedes a Major-General which is in turn more senior than a Brigadier-General, making pure crap out of the individual seniority of the rank prefixes.


VERY VERY VERY ILLOGICAL!

I've been traumatised by this prevailing lack of sense and logic from the day I was enlisted.

Can somebody alleviate me from my hounding curiosity and offer me a decent explanation to this????

Please...

BAH!