Uzique wrote:
by 'military' i was talking about sandhurst; that's how my sentence clauses are constructed, basic reading interpretation... and my point stands. i think having personal experience with people in various areas, ranks and stages of british military involvement entitles me a little more to comment socially on the relation to 'class' than you, mr. armchair general. i was talking about sandhurst and the reputation for upper-echelon public-school alumni, there is nothing incorrect about that statement. kindly gtfo.
You are wrong.
Fundamentally the idea of class and military are woefully incorrect in the modern armed forces of the western world. You have a
chain of command, based on a rank structure, not a fucking class structure, although the British military is notorious for it's "holier than thou" officers. An officer from a lower class family is no better nor worse than an officer of equal rank from an upper class family.
Just because you know a person or two in the "military" doesn't mean you know jack shit. You want to know something go do it, I did. You learn everything you know from sticking your nose in a book at some hoighty-toighty upper class college as you would have us believe, drinking tea with your pinky extended so far out it's blinding a poor innocent butler in the next room.
Also, the USAF does not suck and I take great offense to you saying so. If you really have a beef with the USAF then I would say you have a beef with the entire U.S. armed services, which in turn makes you pretty un-American, probably even a terrorist sympathizer, most left wing college liberals are and you fit the bill perfectly. You probably shed a tear for the dutch crotch bomber didn't you? Another thing is, how in the fuck are you gonna call yourself alumni when you haven't even graduated, or for that fact, may NOT even graduate (and I doubt you will).