As some of you know, I became disabled in the Marine Corps. They literally add insult to injury there, claiming “No Marine is ever injured, all Marines are faking it” and other such statements. It really makes you feel like less of a person and getting processed out of the military was, hands down, the darkest time in my life.
When I was in, there was an unofficial command to process out Marines using different separation characterizations. I won’t go into it too much, but basically commanding officers were told to administratively separate a Marine with less than an honorable discharge, meaning that Marine is not guaranteed medical care or their GI Bill (money for university). This is completely illegal and was thankfully exposed after I got out, but at the time I was in I had to fight this.
I was working a second job at the time and I was alone. I hated my life. I contemplated suicide. I would drink vodka before work to fake a smile and would emotionally break down at least once a week. My life and career were over, that’s how I saw it, but I fought against the nonsense so I could ensure my rights would be given to me.
Someone fighting with the commanding officer tends to get noticed, and the fatties came to me asking for advice. They told me their “medical problems” and asked how they, too, could try to get a “fair” shake at being discharged. Thankfully, this being the Marine Corps, I could be a shitlord openly and I said, “For starters, stop being so fucking fat. That makes you look like a lazy sack of shit that’s just trying to get out because he’s a lazy sack of shit.” Just because you have medical problems is no excuse to be a bloated whale with screaming buttons on your uniform. I was pretty sure they didn’t have medical problems at all. Some of the stuff they said made no sense, but I tried to set that aside because I know I wanted people to take me seriously so I tried to take them seriously. The problem is that being obese pretty much sealed the deal about it being malingering. Their laziness is what had Marines like me ostracized for actual medical problems.
Then I saw other Marines and civilians who weren’t medically struggling like myself, but were overeating. Here I was, trying to take care of my body the best I could, and then some folks with totally okay bodies were eating themselves into medical problems of their own. That’s what added to the depression, that these people didn’t even appreciate their bodies but they still got to have them without disability (at least at that time).
I was reminded of this from reading about another shitlord’s encounter, and just wanted to share how deeply I hate obeasts and the HAES/fat acceptance movements. It might sound more depressing than enraging, but my rage meter was so high…that’s why I relished being able to call them out as lazy, fat fucks.
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[–] FordGirl 1 point 20 points 21 points (+21|-1) ago
Damn. First, thank you for your service. Second, it sucks you had to go through all that for being actually disabled. I hope you're doing better now and getting what you deserve. It's angering that their bad choices are keeping people from getting what they need, just another example of their obesity affecting everyone else. Obese people have no place in the military, except for human shields and testing dummies for new weapons.
[–] Leelem0n [S] 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
You don't need to thank me for my service and it did indeed suck to have to go through all that. I am permanently disabled so it isn't something that will ease up, it's just something I have to live with. I did fight to get all the shit I needed, so that's good.
[–] theword 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Care to share the disability or how it happened? I'm curious as I plan on going in soon.
[–] jennyanydots817 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Don't forget target practice.
[–] silver_polish 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Disabled? USMC? Just go get some Motrin... /s
Seriously though, this pisses me off so much:
Ugh. You just want to scream to the heavens and shake anyone who acts like that.
[–] Leelem0n [S] 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Vitamin M.
[–] silver_polish 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There's the phrase I couldn't bring to mind!
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[–] vuke69 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
And foot powder
[–] SUPA_FUPA 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Wow so there were Marines who overate themselves into disability? What the hell America... I thought no Marines are obeasts nor do they tolerate that shit.
[–] Leelem0n [S] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
They don't tolerate it and you can be processed out for being in unsatisfactory physical condition, but it takes like a year.
[–] slugsrgr8t ago
You would be fucking surprised.
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[–] burntfishnchips 1 point 5 points 6 points (+6|-1) ago
??? What is the problem exactly?
[–] Liberalhotguy134 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
Thank you for your service and I too can't fucking stand this fat acceptance movement, its equivalent would be the smoking to get lung cancer acceptance movement.
[–] Leelem0n [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
You don't have to thank me for my service and I agree that it's like a smoking acceptance movement. It's just total bullshit.
[–] burntfishnchips 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There's already too much sympathy for smokers sadly.. ugh.. but fat acceptance is just as bad, or even worse. Both are gross, unhealthy and do affect the people around them.
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[–] Leelem0n [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
That shit pisses me off so much.
[–] hypercat 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
My friend destroyed his knees in the marines and he got 22% disabled which sucks because his job is going up and down ladders and stairs all day. And a nice little check of $150 a month in disability. And he had to fight for that. They gave him shit because 90% of knee disabilities are from fats. He's like 150 lbs soaking wet.
[–] Leelem0n [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Fucking fats.
[–] Waluzzle420 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I feel your pain, I served in the Kazakh Army ( Қазақстанның Қарулы күштері) for quite a few years and back in the late 90s the people getting off on disability were obviously injured, now it is just fat pigs demanding payment because they can't do simple exercises.
[–] Leelem0n [S] ago
Man, that sucks hearing this isn't just a US problem.
[–] pray_the_gay_away 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Leelemon, you're my hero. Your presence is an honor to our community.
[–] Leelem0n [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You are a flatterer.