Originally Posted by
sigtauenus
Or until they get the opportunity to play with us, and witness 8 hours of mission planning and 2 hours of briefing for a 1 hour flight followed by a 2 hour debrief (ie, lessons learned). I think the exact quote was "holy ****, I had no idea you guys actually worked this hard..."
True. I don't buy the "it teaches discipline argument at all" There are countless other methods to this madness then telling Marines not to do something that doesn't make a hill of beans worth of sense just for the sake of doing so. I digress.