****BREAKING**** Pete Hegseth Said Drill Sergeants Can Hit Soldiers In Their Charge

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Didn't Ike make General Patton apologize for slapping two soldiers?

[RockRaven]

1. He's watched Full Metal Jacket too many times.

Like his boss, his knowledge of the real world is based more on fiction than practical experience.

[BattleRow]

9. He shoulda watched "Platoon."

What a film!

[Ponietz]

2. And relieved him of duty for almost a year -- after the apology

[underpants]

3. Ritualistic beatings are normal in the Russian Army. Look where that got them.

In basic they couldn’t hit us but they didn’t need to. There was a Drill Sargent in another platoon that I heard hit some of his guys with basically the base of his open hand.

[surfered]

4. The beatings will continue until morale improves

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. You served. Thank you. I realize a certain amount of toughness is required for you own safety

But were your superiors ogres?

[underpants]

6. No.

I was in a messed up unit but we did what we had to. The only beatings we’re amongst enlisted guys (pink belly - a hazing) but never an NCO or an officer.

[The Madcap]

11. I remember a video

Of russian soldiers beating and killing their commander with a shovel. Is that what the drunkard wants?

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Great for recruitment.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Hegseth would have learned a lot if he had gone to Vietnam when the soldiers were conscripted.

That's the first time I heard of the term fragging.

[Aristus]

10. Another asshole who thinks the Armed Forces are still in the dark ages.

The Army proved a long time ago that one does not have to use physical abuse to discipline a trainee.

[Torchlight]

12. These pasty, flabby civilians sure want the people around them to be fit

Creepy administration gets creepier every day.

[JT45242]

13. They'll get bonuses for hitting people of color and women

Big bonuses if they make the same groups quit.

They just want white bullies.

[B.See]

14. In effect he's giving them orders to be as lawless as they want,

without fear of reprimand, reprisals or consequences.

No doubt a NECESSARY component of what's coming next, when Armed Forces under Trump's command OCCUPY America (starting with our inner cities) under a declared martial law (founded upon pure bullshit) and a military DICTATORSHIP.

[twodogsbarking]

15. They all have weapons. What could go wrong.

[twodogsbarking]

16. Is he a recruiter?

[Abolishinist]

17. Careful, sometimes they strike back!

[madamesilverspurs]

18. Hegseth has always struck me (figuratively speaking)

as one of those guys who struts and swaggers, then cries like a baby when someone slaps him (a la ZZa Zza). I admit that's based on nothing more than acquaintance with a couple of guys who acted just like him. But yeesh. Also yuck.


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[Kaleva]

19. Boot camp like the Greatest Generation endured.