Not a chance. You have to understand that the military as a whole may have a lot of liberals across all branches (still less than half), but with the exception of small numbers of special operations groups in the Air Force and Navy, only the Army and Marines have significant numbers of combat troops. The combat arms specialties in the Army as an example include infantry, cav scouts, artillery and combat engineers, all with significant amounts of combat training above and beyond the stuff taught in basic training. Most sailors never do any real basic rifle marksmanship after their initial training, same with Airforce. And my experience has shown me that the closer you get to real bad-assery (teir 1 operators) the more patriotic and conservative. Air Force and Navy are great at softening targets and controlling airspace but they cannot take and hold ground. That's where combat soldiers (Army and Marine) hold the advantage and the number of liberals is minute in that demographic.
Interesting observation but you have to take my word for it. If the military person had a combat job (trained specifically to fight), gay or not, they are overwhelmingly conservative. I knew many support personnel that were liberal (admin, mechanics, etc) but not a single combat arms soldier. Even the support members for my units were typically hard right because we all were.
I am not worried in the least about squaring off against a lefty aircraft mechanics if it came to it. I have fired more rounds in an average training exercise than they did their whole military career.
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Not a chance. You have to understand that the military as a whole may have a lot of liberals across all branches (still less than half), but with the exception of small numbers of special operations groups in the Air Force and Navy, only the Army and Marines have significant numbers of combat troops. The combat arms specialties in the Army as an example include infantry, cav scouts, artillery and combat engineers, all with significant amounts of combat training above and beyond the stuff taught in basic training. Most sailors never do any real basic rifle marksmanship after their initial training, same with Airforce. And my experience has shown me that the closer you get to real bad-assery (teir 1 operators) the more patriotic and conservative. Air Force and Navy are great at softening targets and controlling airspace but they cannot take and hold ground. That's where combat soldiers (Army and Marine) hold the advantage and the number of liberals is minute in that demographic.
IDk. Purely anecdotal but it just seems for the last 4 years or so every military person I see is either pro-trump or gay. It is about an equal split.
Interesting observation but you have to take my word for it. If the military person had a combat job (trained specifically to fight), gay or not, they are overwhelmingly conservative. I knew many support personnel that were liberal (admin, mechanics, etc) but not a single combat arms soldier. Even the support members for my units were typically hard right because we all were.
I am not worried in the least about squaring off against a lefty aircraft mechanics if it came to it. I have fired more rounds in an average training exercise than they did their whole military career. .
My friend joined the Navy and still has never fired a gun in his life.