Originally posted by Wild Shadow
i am talking as a prior marine and view of how some of my fellow marines would laugh at army cats with captain america shield on their sleeve...most of us marines have trained our bodies for combat condition we have bn in combat or practice over and over skirmishes for that eventuality...
ive showed friends scans and comics of captain america and his corny views and behavior and all of my non comic reading friends laugh and think he is retarded.... and point out "he had to be army" as a obvious put down...
as a old school combat vet yes, he has earn all our respect... as a leader of marine no he hasnt nor would he...
any marine that would follow one of his orders on a marine military base without getting explicit confirmation from a marine superior would more then likely be under for a courtmarshal...
remember u cant respect a fictional character and captain america is an army representative and has very little respect to actual marines as a symbol for what it is to be a marine technically caps ideals dont mesh with marine standards....
technically cap doesnt meet the marine standard....
thousands of marines earned their physical conditioning and are more deserving then cap with decades worth of MA skills..... also being a supersoldier candidated doesnt mean u severely outclass all military personnel and units....
so their would be many ppl who have contempt for cap as their are marines who have it now...
To an extent I can see where your coming from. I wouldn't join the army or the marines because I dont like being told what to do, but I respect people in the army and the marines on principle that its an honourable thing to risk your life to defend something you believe in. Im sure there are some bad people in the army but I think some of them believe they are doing the right thing. Often on comic forums you get these comic fans who put too much into what people like Superman and Batman say and they dont understand that its a comicbook and their moral values to an extent wouldn't work in the real world. You just know if certain fans had to deal with real violence and suffering they wouldn't come out with that bullshit.
However on the other hand sometimes I think you just don't listen and only hear what you want to hear, for example.....
thousands of marines earned their physical conditioning and are more deserving then cap with decades worth of MA skills..... also being a supersoldier candidated doesnt mean u severely outclass all military personnel and units....
Didn't I already explain this? Cap had a condition, lets put it this way he was so frail they wouldn't let him in the army. As I already explained to you already if a person was born with that condition they wouldnt get very far in training, but despite that Cap still voluntereed. So techinically really hes more deserbing than you and your boys because he started off with less.
Also if you bothered to read a Cap comic and stop making up stuff you would know for the most part the SSS doesnt make that much difference and he still needs to train. There are numeorous examples of him taking out superhumans without the SSS.
I also dont know if Cap doesnt fit the marine standard, be specific. What exactly does Cap do that clashes so much with the marines?