InfantryDort
@infantrydort • 103,615 subscribers
Just an Infantryman trying to close with and destroy. Motivated to make the U.S. Infantry lethal again. Active Duty LTC. 11M to 11B to 11A. Views are my own.
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"I don't even look at soldiers as being black, white, red, yellow, green, purple, or pink.... if we ever run into anybody who does, we get rid of them." -GEN Schwarzkopf I remember saying exactly this just a few years ago, and getting immense grief for it. Never again.
InfantryDort414,473 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Uploading a video like this is pretty rare for me. So it should show you the level of urgency I think it deserves. Iran’s new weapon isn’t a missile. It’s a lie aimed at the morale of American military members and their families, built by mixing real hardship with fabricated deaths, fake mutiny, and propaganda until people stop knowing what to trust. The warning is simple: if we keep treating information warfare like PR, we will lose battles without the enemy ever having to sink a ship. While I fundamentally agree with the problems laid out in this video, I disagree in part with Iran being the sole mastermind behind this strategy. I think it's very useful for the adversaries of America to take advantage of. And I will say emphatically that the media of the United States (whether they are useful idiots or not) are largely to blame for aiding and providing comfort to our enemies. They are directly responsible for supporting the armed enemy combatants of this country. Whether they mean to or not, it's happening in real time. Whether you want it to be true or not, X (and media in general) is a primary battlefield of the moment. Not some side show. The key terrain... is you. Watch every minute of this.
InfantryDort66,219 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
I want to illustrate to leaders of any organization how difficult it is to break the spell of individuality when leading Americans meant to operate as a unit. I was teaching ROTC cadets in California years ago—smack dab in the epicenter of American individuality. I tried teaching tactics and skills to prepare them for Advanced Camp. But my words fell flat. They were completely absorbed with themselves. I'll admit, my annoyance turned into rage. So I turned to the only surefire method I knew to forge a unit—pain. In doing so, I broke every ROTC rule in place under then-MG Peggy Combs. She wanted us to coddle them into excellence. That doesn’t work. Anyone who's been in the Army more than 5 minutes knows that. I didn't care if I got fired for this. I had 6 hours of PT and 2 hours of lab per week. 8 hours total. For 3 weeks I took them out to a field and made them sprint, bear crawl, low crawl—whatever I felt like. And after every single individual rep, I asked one question: “Why do you want to be an officer in the Army?” And after every rep, for 3 weeks straight, I heard answers like: “I want to be the first man or woman to do X.” “I want to be the first in my family to do Y.” “I want to be better than everyone else.” “I want to prove I can do it.” Me me me me me. The longer it went on, the angrier I got. I’ve smoked others and been smoked extensively. I knew I was crossing a line in this moment though. I wanted to break them. I wanted them to quit. Every time they failed to say what I was looking for, the exercises got harder. In my mind, I saw my brothers and sisters who died in battle due to bad leadership. I daydreamed about them during every rep. Their memory made the anger intensify. Then finally, after one last rep, a cadet said: “I’m here for the Soldiers I’ll one day lead. For everyone to my left and right.” Or something more selfless to that effect. That was it. I walked off the field and dismissed them. I finally found them worthy to teach. I added the “Miracle” clip because I don’t have footage of my own experience getting my individuality broken. But that scene speaks to me. I’m from Winthrop, Massachusetts. I know the Eruzione family. So it felt right to add the video below. I’ve risked my career doing this kind of thing—turning up the heat to where it needed to be. Because I was taught, and still believe, war is binary. You win or lose. Live or die. How do you expect to destroy the individual without group suffering sometimes? You can’t make a good meal without heat. You can't make elite Soldiers without it either.
InfantryDort35,086 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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