Incarcerated men would also be more acceptable as casualties than good men.
I’ve often wondered why the US didn’t empty our prisons and airdrop all of our convicts on Afghanistan instead of sacrificing so many good men and trillions. And for what?
“”I’ve often wondered why the US didn’t empty our prisons and airdrop all of our convicts on Afghanistan””
To do what, sell stolen goods and open black markets, to set up brothels, rape, rob, and murder, ignore orders, go on patrols and just sit down when out of sight of the base, to retreat instead of fighting to the death for things the sociopath doesn’t care about to lie, cheat, and steal in an organization that deals in guns, food, gasoline, explosives, pensions, vehicles and that depends on honesty, teamwork, and dependability?
To forge supply sheets and hijack our supply trucks, to do what?
they did in the Nam war, 10 in the pen or 4 in the Cor.