There’s no “accurate” or “inaccurate” way to do a doc like this, it does give some good fly on the wall observations of the culture. And that’s part of what’s giving me the ick, I can’t believe I used to be one of these bloodthirsty freaks. You got kids talking about dreaming of killing people when they were little children. Others talking about violence as a virtue and the true measure of manhood and if someone’s a good person. The family’s worship of this shit, little siblings wanting to follow in footsteps at like 8 years old… Guys out here saying they want to be “the most dangerous I can be”. Fuck man, this shit it so bleak.

Then the officers, the fucking officers lol. These fucking dorks belong at your local PTA or HOA meeting. The Green Bay XO is just quirky girl power (literally has a straw topper on her Stanley that says so) midwestern wine mom. The MEU CO cheesing it in his official pic looking like a golden retriever. And the speeches they give about their “warrior mindset” are always sportsball analogy.

The whole thing is a recruitment spot and PR/advertising for the MIC. And blatant propaganda straight from the Pentagon. Multiple inferences and allusions to WWIII and China being the chief adversary. Just all around gross, fuck the Marines, fuck the military in general, fuck war.

Edit: lol the SSGT’s buddy got got fighting for

Also, they end with a “special thanks to the department of war”. Sebastian Junger can go suck start a shotgun.

Edit 2: fucking broadcast evening christian prayer on the float. The chaplain is a fucking freak.