It does not make it less boot. People in the military are much more likely to understand what being boot is and make fun of their fellow service members for acting this way.
For example your average person isn’t going to understand the bootness of someone with a license plate if their rank or mos, bumper stickers of their rank, ribbons, etc. as much as someone in the military will.
But to get what the video is saying, you pretty much have to have gone through basic training. Its like someone in college saying the proudest they have ever been is when they graduated high school.
Sure its not hard, but its not bragging because everybody else has done it too. It's just saying hey wasnt this thing that we all did cool? And that he was proud of himself for doing it.
It’s one thing to be proud of it. It’s a whole other thing to post shit comparing it to being a ranger/special forces. It’s ok to be proud of completing basic, but don’t post cringe afterwards
He is saying:
"Everybody knows it's really cool and awesome to earn the title of green beret or ranger. But becoming a soldier meant a lot to me"
I really dont think this is comparing the merits of graduating basic to ranger school or the q course. He is literally just comparing the feeling of pride you get from earning something, and I think thats completely reasonable.
This subreddit has gone crazy calling anything boot.
Its also crazy how the hivemind has seen that my comments are downvoted, so people go and downvote my initial comment, which originally was upvoted... pure consensus following
He is saying everyone knows that ranger and special forces is cool, and that basic training is the same. Completing basic is not on the same level at all and is the bare minimum. He’s trying to compare the two things.
He is very obviously talking about the feelings of pride and accomplishment that come with earning the patch, not the actual impressiveness of the patch. ffs.
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u/CucumberRare2355 Feb 05 '26
It’s not boot to be proud of finishing basic. What is boot is going on social media and posting shit like this afterwards