A serving member who thinks that those who didn't enlist in their generation earlier are soft, entitled or
woke.
Army Boomers are the type to obsess over
old school figures real/fictional
like R Lee Ermey or John Rambo.
They are:
- Hypocritical in demanding respect when they have disrespected
people who served for their race,
gender or even sexual orientation and other characteristics.
- Willfully ignorant in realizing that times are changing and that it is a soldier's duty to adapt to changing conditions but rather than adapt or quit they choose to complain without taking action.
- Arrogant in thinking that being in the military makes you better than a civilian which defeats the narrative that the military is a selfless service. Often they carry an insecurity towards their own masculinity which manifests in being really defensive over criticism of the organization they serve or the need to say they served.
- In denial of recognizing that the past generations that served were not perfect and often romanticized those days despite not necessarily living in those days.
- always bragging about past accomplishments and yet can't conveniently name any accomplishments now. Always obsessing with the past which is a
red flag that they think abuse is discipline or an
old school way which is an admission that they approved or practiced the methods in the past.
Sgt: fucking snowflakes, back in my day we didn't have to talk about feelings and we had to take it like real soldiers! The last good
soldier was in the 1980s.
Pvt: What's wrong with the Sergeant?
Cpl:
Ahh don't worry, he's just being an
army Boomer.
