Quote Originally Posted by Mister Adequate View Post
Reddit.

And I'm pretty sure raging neckbeards have never been the army's first choice for front-line infantry.
Actually, they were the army's first choice for front-line infantry for roughly the entirety of human existence. You don't want to risk your skilled and competent warriors in combat when you can send wave after wave of the peasantry out there first. Especially once technology reached the point where you could give them guns that required little training, like in World War 1.