Note from the Editor:
Life as a newly-graduated Marine is an odd mix of minor excitement, diminishing pride, and increasing dread; we who survived training and got approved for fleet duties have reason to be quite proud, but keep finding more and more retards filling billet quotas and shitting on everyone, so this pride is sure to fade fast. They don’t create any sense of urgency in us, nor any motivation to obey their orders, let alone look up to them for any combat expertise or even general guidance. Beyond this, we know that we may very soon get horrifically disfigured, mutilated, captured, or killed. No matter how desensitized and well-trained we have become, and are still becoming, men raised to be mortals and blunt tools will still have surges of negative thoughts and emotions.
After spending an entire deployment being abused far beyond understandable hazing, and being used as sniper bait for no reason at all, I come to see the American military for what it is; random scum from fallen cities, crudely organized and poorly armed, sent around the world to “help” and “fight” “wars”, when really they have no idea about the mentalities, interests, and needs of the people they are sent to help. Their idea of fighting is a shadow of what real fighting once was. The wars we find ourselves ordered to participate in are so dragged-out and over-complicated that not even our smartest can honestly make sense of them. No one here has a clue what the root causes or realistic solutions for any of this are. We are simply here, trying not to die –though many of the dumber and mindless ones in our units ARE trying to die. You wouldn’t believe it.
In the years ahead, I’ll go through much more training, much more bullshit, and hundreds more missions during my last deployment. The following episodes/issues of this first season of MKM will open with Editor’s Notes giving you glimpses into all the milestones along that dark way. Thank the gods, as I write and publish this, they are long-since in the past. What a nightmarish challenge this phase of life was to get through, even as an exemplary war-fighter, trained to damn near perfection.
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