Neither am I. I like shooting guns and blowing stuff up. I'd prefer not to get shot at, but I didn't like that spreadsheet I worked on today either. But yeah, getting ordered around all the time...that would either break my will or I'd blow a fuse.
The idea was to break an individual down then rebuild them into the unit the army needed, all taking orders, acting and reacting the same. This started at Valley Forge in the Revolutionary War. I think that might have been from the furrin general Ben Franklin sent from europe to help out.
Funny thing about that man. In europe he was a lowly lieutenant on the general staff of some general. For lack of a comma the letter described him as a lieutenant general instead of a lieutenant, general staff. Washington told him he would promote him to Captain General and put him to work!
It was a general at Valley Forge, I think this one, that started this pattern of training US troops, something carried forward at least a couple hundred years. The lieutenant turned the starving ragtag mob into soldiers and was a big part in winning the Revolutionary War! Commas can make quite a difference!
I had some physical issues that insured I wouldn't go play in Uncle Sam's games, something I was very grateful for. I had been hiring and firing, making many of the decisions running a business since I was twelve, giving orders too of course. I was much more inclined to give them than take them!jm,;'['