Posted on 12/17/2023 11:53:01 AM PST by RandFan
They would not even qualify as rear echelon in my army. This is sad. Not laughing matter. It’s over for us.
I learned from the book, Imperial Grunts that Hispanics were over-represented in Special Forces. Most SF personal were Hispanics and Southern Whites — both coming from cultures which were tougher and more macho than average.
Just more war porn that keeps the chicoms and Islamic nations licking their lips in anticipation of what’s coming...
These worthless cannon-fodder cadets will be a glorious feast for almost any other country on the planet...
When they joined did they think they would get gourmet food, private rooms, high salaries and 11 hours of nap time?
When I joined the promise was to go to sea on a nuclear sub. They kept it. Boy did they keep that promise. PS I don’t care what anyone believes. The food on nuclear subs is/ was pretty bland.
Every military unit thinks the other guys have it easy.
My father was a combat engineer in the WWII European theater. They would have to sneak past the front line, secure a beachhead on a river, and construct a bridge by the time the front line caught up with them. As the infantry passed by over the bridge, they would accuse the engineers of digging ditches while they fought the war.
Blame it all on Pat Schroeder (Rest In Hell)
Something that interests me about different units and services is how strong and varied the personal opinions on how the individuals want to face war.
Some won’t get in a tank while others want to be in one, some want to be in the air and would never want to be on the ground, others just the opposite, some want to fight as sailors while others would want anything but fighting on a boat in the vast oceans, submarines versus anything but submarines, and so on.
I would love to read a paper on that.
My dad was first(Army) into WW2 (Operation Torch) and last out. He was a Staff Sgt who filled out forms. One of the forms was the release of men back to the US after the war which is why he was last out. Early 1942 to late 1946. He came back to the US and gambled professionally for several years.
He never fired his weapon in combat and his friends were very envious of that. He never had nightmares. Our next door neighbor was 8th AF B-17’s and saw his brother get killed.
“… offer them citizenship if they serve for 5 yrs….”
The Romans tried that. It didn’t turn out well for them.
>Out of that 10 million I’m sure there’s enough to fill the ranks.
And they will shoot your a## when gun confiscation begins.
My dad joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He had won an award in HS for his typing skills so he was placed into administrative work. He spent time in Okinawa but he never talked about what happened there, although he became quite emotional whenever someone mentioned that battle. In the 50s he became an AF recruiter before retiring in the mid 60s. He was so proud of his USAF career and his remains were interred in the Riverside County military graveyard.
“””””We have all of these unskilled illegals who they allowed to flow into this country, offer them citizenship if they serve for 5 yrs or whatever.”””””
If the American military could be manned and operated effectively with unskilled, uneducated peons, speaking dozens of various languages but no English, with little to zero exposure to technology and advanced thinking of modern culture, and of questionable (illegal) morals and character, and God knows what national loyalties and with what security risks, then we could do much better just lowering our standards for Americans.
I don’t know what you think people do in the military, but you are wrong.
Never heard that one before. I’m using it.
While the military is deteriorating a lot of people overlook how much of our military is killing machines and technology.
While we can look at them and mock them in comparison to ourselves there is the reality that they can still operate a lot of death-dealing technology.
While I worry about our bench depth and all the weaknesses that can show up in a total war like WWII where the system breaksdown and individual toughness and will come into play, these current forces can still deal out massive amounts of destruction and death to enemy forces.
My father suffered from PTSD his entire life. The only safe way to wake him was from a distance.
I thank God I never had to go to war. I turned 19 in 1974.
Why is our military allowing this to continue?
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Because it has been taken over by pu*sies, male and female, who are continuously pressured by Democrat politicians to sanction all manner of anti-military and immoral behavior that will help America’s enemies to destroy our country. Only the units of the Joint Special Operations Command remain largely unaffected by the continuing decline of the warrior ethos in the American military.
My dad was at Iwo and Okinawa. His job was to build airfields. The Marines did the hard work. My dad said the guys who went directly from war to home had the hardest time. They never got to decompress. My dad had a year and a half.
We’re being invaded by illegals. How long until a military overtly crosses the border?
In lead
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