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The word from DD the firstie is that the Brigade is still trying to shake the after-effects of the Covid era — the laxness, skipped rites of passage, softer standards, cavalier attitudes, and so forth. It apparently hit 2024 the hardest, with some trickle-down effect on 2025.I don't understand why -- only a month from being a youngster -- all those plebes did something so dumb.
She says that many mids haven’t been fully indoctrinated, or haven’t fully bought in, or both. “Some of them are just playlng dress-up,” she says. Admittedly, she’s a bit of a hardass, but I’m guessing there’s much truth in what she says.