Five years ago me and my family had just PCS’d to Fort Hood TX. I was 16 years in with 4 deployments under my belt and motivated to dive in to my next assignment, continuing to do my part in the ongoing “War on Terror”. I was apprehensive when I found out I was to be assigned to a Military Intelligence unit and even more so when I was assigned to a BN Staff position. I couldn't believe it. I tried my best to fit in but the pace of work and the attitudes I encountered infuriated as well as frustrated me at the same time. “How can these people be so damn lazy” I would often ask myselfI. I came to the conclusion I had to get out of there, I called my branch manager, former Command Sergeants Majors, Commanders, other people I served with trying
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Why are we the ones right in this fight? Are we just creating more terrorist? Was War just a racket benefiting the few at the expense of many brave men and women blinded by incessant jingoistic propaganda? General Smeldley D. Butler one of the most decorated Marines to ever live once said, “For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.” After I retired and started working my first civilian job and I started having more and more questions. I started questing the way society was and I like Soldiers I could see how unhappy and broken people were, not from years of War but from what I know now as Alienation. I think Karl Marx hit the nail on the head with that one, the people I worked with were miserable! Of all the Philosopers we have studied I think I align more with the Stoics Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and the Materialist Karl Marx, an interesting combination I know. Like the Stoics I believe that the only thing we can really control is our attitudes and ultimately, through the decisions we make we can influence our fate. I have told my children many times to try and make the best out a bad situation that you have to be willing to work hard and dedicate yourself to whatever you chose to do in order to be successful, that they will have to “pay the
Why are we the ones right in this fight? Are we just creating more terrorist? Was War just a racket benefiting the few at the expense of many brave men and women blinded by incessant jingoistic propaganda? General Smeldley D. Butler one of the most decorated Marines to ever live once said, “For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.” After I retired and started working my first civilian job and I started having more and more questions. I started questing the way society was and I like Soldiers I could see how unhappy and broken people were, not from years of War but from what I know now as Alienation. I think Karl Marx hit the nail on the head with that one, the people I worked with were miserable! Of all the Philosopers we have studied I think I align more with the Stoics Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus and the Materialist Karl Marx, an interesting combination I know. Like the Stoics I believe that the only thing we can really control is our attitudes and ultimately, through the decisions we make we can influence our fate. I have told my children many times to try and make the best out a bad situation that you have to be willing to work hard and dedicate yourself to whatever you chose to do in order to be successful, that they will have to “pay the