Are you kidding? This is what they look for
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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I mean... volunteering for military service has a certain crazy aspect to it at any time... but you'd be surprised at how many fail to ever become recruits because of their record or general unfitness for service.
it's easy to assume you 'want a bunch of killers' but really what you want are people who are predictable enough to trust with rifles, crew served weapons and ord.
On the first day of Basic, when they ask your platoon if you know why you joined, being the first one to answer correctly when asked: "To Kill People" gets you asked what MOS you signed-up for, and you had better have a good excuse for giving that answer(I did my research, full stop). They do NOT want that level of self-awareness in a fresh recruit, not one they'll send to the front lines in a Combat Arms roll anyways.
They have no problem making trained killers out of anyone who doesn't give-up or attack them( I mean like, normies; Yes, they can make a killer out of you and likely any of the nicest people you've ever met - With very few exceptions, even among vegans, pacifists, ascetics, what-have-you, humans are predators at the end of the day ). Restraining the overly enthusiastic is another matter entirely, so no, its not what they look out for or approach with anything but wariness, bordering on paranoia.
"I mean I wanna, I wanna kill.
"Kill.
"I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood 'n gore 'n guts 'n veins in my teeth.
"Eat dead burnt bodies.
"I mean kill, kill, kill, kill."
And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!"
and he started jumpin' up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!"
And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
Obie came in with the twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one…
you can get anything you want at alice's rest-ur-aunt
excepting Alice
"11b is for people who crave long romantic walks in the sandbox with the squad. However, if you crave drugs and a book deal in addition to killing, we can put you in contact with the Navy recruiter and get you into the SEALs."