Leave it to a young Lance Corporal to cut thru the BS & give it to you straight.

“They’re not willing to do the job it takes to defend their country,” said Lance Cpl. Lucas McGary, a rifleman with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. “They’re so worthless that their worthlessness doesn’t faze anyone anymore.”
Wow.. That's deep

All that same team stuff is 1st & foremost, but sometimes you need to hear if your a steamy pile o'shh..

It reminds me of what a LCpl/fireteam ldr told Maj Gen Natonski, MEF Fwd Cmdr Iraq, in a pacified Fallujah. This was after Natonski got caught in a firefight while leading a media tour. The insurgents fled into a building & Natonski jumped in the young team ldr's stack to "help" clear the building.

After clearing a reporter asked how'd it feel to have a selfless leader willing to lay it down & shoulder the same risk. The reporter was expecting some form of Adoration, but the young Tm Ldr just looked at Natonski & said he was a little too old & overpaid to make a good LCpl and walked off pissed w/the rest of his fireteam.

When asked if he was offended Natonski said no he would've been more offended by a Marine too afraid to speak his mind.