Posted on 03/28/2023 5:46:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Right now, many of us vets are looking back on our years of service and wondering what the hell we did it all for. We used to know – for the USA. Yet you look at the disaster that is our country, our culture, and our beloved military, and you just want to go find a wall and pound your head against it. But a lot fewer folks are going to have this problem in the future because a lot fewer young people are joining our military. The Pentagon can't meet its recruiting goals, and, of course, the fault is our young people, our potential soldiers, for being unwilling to sacrifice their time, and sometimes their lives, in support of the bizarre social pathologies that our garbage ruling class embraces.
The military lost our trust, and it seems uninterested in earning it back. Time for the normals to go on strike until the military becomes a military again instead of a camouflaged faculty lounge.
Why the hell should anybody join the military right now? Don't tell me that it is "to defend the United States" because that's not what the military's primary occupation appears to be anymore. Let's review. We just had former admiral and current Biden Baghdad Bob, smarmy State Department Spokesperson John Kirby, announce that a "core part" of United States foreign policy is "LGBTQ+ rights." You know, not a lot of normal people particularly want to suffer and bleed for that blue coastal fetish. Maybe they do in the rich liberal neighborhoods where Kirby's masters live – actually, they are happy for your kids to suffer and bleed for it, not their own. Oh, and you know what else is a strategic priority? The weather.
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I served in the USMC during the Korean War. Every since I have wondered why I so stupidly volunteered. We haven’t been in a legitimate war since WWIl. I keep remembering President Eisenhower’s warning about the Military Industrial complex. We have lost so many ‘good’ men. I don’t recognize this nation anymore.
Just remember, America hasn’t won a war since 1945. And how many trillions have the military spent?
I also served in a misguided sense of “Patriotism”. We were pawns of the deep state in what ever their quests were. People now are even more misguided. I do not trust the Pentagram, the governments nor the banks but I do trust fellow soldiers.
It seems to me that a major point being missed here is that now REAL war is right on our TV’s and computers.
It’s one thing to watch a war movie, even a pretty grim one. It’s another to see, say, a tank take a hit and a guy with half a leg blown off crawls out, or gets launched a hundred feet into the air, and you know it’s real, and you know it, or worse, could happen to you...
Best saying I ever heard, “There is a reason the Pentagon is shaped like an @ssh0le.”
Depends on the neighborhood. I felt safer in Iraq than I ever did in philly.......just saying.
Walmart is closing stores in bad places
Yep.. Always said/say it is a jobs program.
Went in in ‘82, 41 years later still hanging out in the Defense Department (I like the old Department of War name better)..
The change from War Department to Department of Defense was a prescient statement of the total language control to come
there were dozens of court cases filed (60+)... ALL were rejected without being heard (to avoid allowing evidence to be submitted).
this is how they play.
it’s also the system we have.
protesting does nothing unless those ‘protests’ are going to be ‘mostly peaceful’ and burn down/ attack the various govt agencies.
“Americans” is too broad. It should be Conservatives.
"We're 10 and 1!"
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
John 16 :33
Miley is horse shit
I regret having served. The country is not worth it. I am glad I was not killed.
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