Current US Military

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Re: Current US Military

Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:08 pm

it's like the Green Berets

if you've ever met them, you know what they are like

those boys don't go a drinking & carousing & causing trouble like the 82nd Airborne

them Delta boys are God fearing

they read the Bible, they go to church, they live a clean life

that is what makes them so elite, that is why they pass the Q course, they are true believers
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Re: Current US Military

Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:28 pm

it's like Hanarchy says to me : oh Smitty, you professional soldiers just did it for the money

are you kidding ?

how much money did you think we made ?

$1800 a month is not going to get me to go over the top into a hail of gunfire

this is only one thing that would have got me over the top

Jesus Christ himself

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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:41 pm

I hate this revisionist nonsense that Soldiers are mere mercenaries
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Re: Current US Military

Post by Smitty-48 » Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:45 pm

C-Mag wrote:
Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:41 pm
I hate this revisionist nonsense that Soldiers are mere mercenaries
I would have done it for free

since I was ten years old, all I wanted to be was an infantryman

the pay was $1800 a month, just enough so I could afford to not have to get a job on the side

I still did take a job on the side, as a bouncer at nightclubs

but that wasn't for the money, just a way to meet girls
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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:48 am

DOD spending Cool Mil to study pond turtles.

https://www.patriotproject.com/defense- ... d-turtles/

Maybe we can weaponize them
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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:36 pm

Taliban is rolling - 3 cities captured in 3 days
https://freedomist.com/taliban-take-thr ... hree-days/

Trying to win wars with SpecOps is stupid, futile and a waste of time. In the 20 year history of GWOT, the only real victories we had came from pretty conventional warfare. COIN failed, Operators failed, the Generals failed.

The Taliban is winning because they are closing with and killing their enemies. They are not playing fuck, fuck SpecOps, spymaster games. They are just going force on force, that's how you win.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by The Conservative » Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:41 pm

C-Mag wrote:
Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:36 pm
Taliban is rolling - 3 cities captured in 3 days
https://freedomist.com/taliban-take-thr ... hree-days/

Trying to win wars with SpecOps is stupid, futile and a waste of time. In the 20 year history of GWOT, the only real victories we had came from pretty conventional warfare. COIN failed, Operators failed, the Generals failed.

The Taliban is winning because they are closing with and killing their enemies. They are not playing fuck, fuck SpecOps, spymaster games. They are just going force on force, that's how you win.
I said from the beginning we should have glassed where they were.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by C-Mag » Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:45 pm

This is a classic case of lions led by lambs.
Our leaders don't have the intestinal fortitude to war real war, and are too afraid to make the case of its necessity for victory to the American people.
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Re: Current US Military

Post by Hastur » Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:20 pm

The Conservative wrote:
Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:41 pm
C-Mag wrote:
Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:36 pm
Taliban is rolling - 3 cities captured in 3 days
https://freedomist.com/taliban-take-thr ... hree-days/

Trying to win wars with SpecOps is stupid, futile and a waste of time. In the 20 year history of GWOT, the only real victories we had came from pretty conventional warfare. COIN failed, Operators failed, the Generals failed.

The Taliban is winning because they are closing with and killing their enemies. They are not playing fuck, fuck SpecOps, spymaster games. They are just going force on force, that's how you win.
I said from the beginning we should have glassed where they were.
The Taliban are the Pashtun people. 15 million in Afghanistan and 40 million in Pakistan. Good plan. :roll:
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Re: Current US Military

Post by TheReal_ND » Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:57 pm

Anyone else think the taliban is kind of good for Afghanistan?