Military Culture

July 20, 2023

Rebecca Rodriguez

You know, I've either had a family, a job, something has always been in the way.

But now I've sold my house, I've found this place, a large studio, you should see the space and the light.

For the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and the time to create.

No baby, if you're going to create you're going to create whether you work 16 hours a day in a coal mine or you're going to create in a small room with 3 children while you're on welfare.

You're going to create with part of your mind and your body blown away, you're going to create blind crippled demented, you're going to create with a cat crawling up your back while the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment, flood and fire.

Baby, air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and don't create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.

- Charles Bukowski

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You might have heard that different cultures exist across different ethnicities, but if you have seen some of the most classical military-based movies like “A few good men”, or otherwise have an interest in military life, then you will know that there is a completely different culture in the Military and although civilians might not be able to understand that culture, it is well practiced in the military.

Most militaries across the world have had their members living in a boarding school, away from home, from an early age. They have not spent as much time with their families as the rest of us and therefore have developed a different kind of culture in their habits. One of the most outstanding factors of that culture is the brotherhood embedded into them. Having lived with each other for a significant part of their life, the military has established norms of brotherhood and unity where they would stand by each other no matter what they have to face without ever considering taking the easy way out.

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They also have a rugged way of expressing brotherly love to each other during times of calamity. Military pranks within themselves would seem to be outright insanity to the rest of us but they are a way to bring people into the system and their own way of having fun. As the colonel had mentioned, “we follow orders or people die”, another famous attribute in military culture is that they do not question their superiors very often. They know they need to act swiftly and simply have faith that their superiors will have the best plan to move forward so no matter how ridiculous an order may sound, it is followed. Just like any country has its own rituals and traditions, the military has its rituals and traditions that give them a sense of belonging and they hold them to their heart.