Raising soldiers from children.

[CurseSealofEarth]

duh?retard

I don't think you're making the point you think you are.

 

[Jin Hayami]

Sounds f'd up to me, most would be zombies obeying every order. I know if I was raised to be a soldier, I'd be the one to tell the commander to go F himself, then I would run away.

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Dude. Any Drill Sgt. in the world would **** you down with their voice alone. Do it to the CO and every ****ing NCO in that company as well as the CO himself would destroy you mentally, physically, and emotionally.
Try to run away. We had a female try to go AWOL when I was in basic. Sprinted out of formation on our way to church. Her friend chased after her and the Drill Sgt yelled "Get her!" One of my friends who was a strong safety in college accidentally horse collared the wrong girl into the dirt. Caught they caught the right girl at Burger King two hours later because guess what? ***** didn't know the way off post. In basic when you are told you're a "dead man" it means that they are going to **** you down, smoke you, put you on every ***** detail, berate you at every opportunity, and then smoke the shit out of all your friends so that you feel even more like a piece of shit and to make them hate you for being a shitbag ***** loser who gets to explain to every future employer why they have a general or dishonorable discharge from the military.

As for you punching the CO in the face. Every basic cycle has a few guys that say they'll do it. Mine had a guy named Fox. "Man I ain't afraid of no ****ing drill sarn't. I'll knock that mother****er out if he steps to me." Drill got on the bus. Said we have ten seconds to get off the bus. Fox proceeded to not only try to quit within fifteen minutes. He actually cried that night and said he wanted to go home. Ended up labelled a ***** for the rest of the cycle. Then failed out of AIT and got kicked out. So yeah. Talk shit. The ones that do always break the easiest.

the point is winning a war is not something important. having a decent life is.

Disagree strongly but the rest of my post is going to be very long so I'll merely agree to disagree on that one.

The idea of raising children to become soldiers is indeed possible but extremely hard to execute properly. It wouldn't involve an elite selection of who got into the program or not because at that age children are what you make of them. The selection process for SF, Seals, Rangers, CAG, etc isn't about being well trained. It's about whether you have the mental fortitude, maturity, and integrity to meet their standards. They are designed to weed out the retards, the pussies, and the shitbags.

The biggest struggle in a program like you suggest would be mental. You would be amazed how hard it is to get fifty grown ass men just to show up with the right equipment. There's always one or two ****ed up. However obviously if you take a bunch of eight year olds and drill it into their heads for a decade they'll eventually get routines down. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll be smart enough to think on their own and operate as an individual as some of these programs require. They would doubtlessly be outstanding regular soldiers as far as team work and battlefield knowledge would go but a well trained moron is still a moron. Hell the top two reasons people fail out of SF is that they fail their language course or they can't get the clearance. Even then people typically don't realize that SF dudes primary duty is to simply train foreign soldiers to fight. Which means even more that you can't have an idiot in that specific MOS.

I would also worry about injury. I'm 22. I've been in for four years. After all the jumps, ten mile runs, ruck marches, and general ass kicking that comes with the job I feel like I'm 32. So they would be breaking the kids bodies down even faster. Really I just don't see it as practical. The government would spend millions of dollars raising and training these kids. A quarter would physically break before they could qualify for any special operations community. A third wouldn't be smart enough especially if they have to compete against soldiers that grew up having to think for themselves. So about 40% would actually make it to the operations community. Those numbers are no better than we have now.

Meanwhile the broken ones would be collecting disability for the rest of their lives. The stupid ones would end up in a regular military unit with individuals they couldn't bond with on a regular level because they haven't had the childhood experiences required to function with normal people. Trust me the super hoo-ah guys in the army are generally hated because lets be real. Nobody likes an uptight prick looking down on them and never bullshitting around with the other guys. Then when they get put in leadership positions the morale of the entire team/squad/platoon whatever is ****ing destroyed and when morale is low soldiers tend to get into trouble.

So lets look at another option. Starting them a bit later in life. Say...teenage years. Oh wait we already have military schools. We also have a saying in the army. Everyone hates a ****ing ring knocker. (West Point graduate) Mainly because they come in after spending four years in a school learning to be an officer and have about as many ribbons on their uniform as the newest private. Plus they get into all these awesome schools. Why? They're ****ing officer candidates. So the army is sending them to these schools. Taking slots away from the enlisted. Then a bunch of cadets end up failing out before graduation anyway.

Really its just infinitely more practical to start soldiers from adulthood.

 

[ShishaMastah420]

>_>

I doubt anyone in this thread even actually read the OP

The one post above me dude sounds like a juice head, lmao.

This is actually a practical idea IMO; strengthen them mentally from 1-12 then from 12-18 strengthen them physically by 20-21 Fuq'n Assassins.

I believe they practice this somewhere in Asian way back when.

 

[Jin Hayami]

>_>

I doubt anyone in this thread even actually read the OP

The one post above me dude sounds like a juice head, lmao.

This is actually a practical idea IMO; strengthen them mentally from 1-12 then from 12-18 strengthen them physically by 20-21 Fuq'n Assassins.

I believe they practice this somewhere in Asian way back when.

Lol I'm on test boosters not steroids. And like I said. Possible. Not practical. You still have to be smart to implement training correctly. Otherwise you're just following doctrine and the enemy always knows doctrine. Better to make kids grow up thinking for themselves if you want special operations soldiers.

 

[YowYan]

Whadyou think our current global education system is?

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

So we are the soldiers of obedience and the empire :3

 

[BlacLord™]

Totally unrealistic.