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[–] 119 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Worked as a civilian (GS) for the army for 30 year. This is pretty much SOP.

Everyone talks about honoring soldiers, but in every conflict they are used and discarded, like a used tissue. They come back with life long illness and are just abandoned.

It’s despicable, but is not new. No administration wants to pay the full bill for their wars.

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  • [–] 59 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Accurate. We "have no idea what gulf war syndrome is".

    Havana syndrome? Eh it's not worth looking into.

    "PTSD? Sounds like pussy syndrome to me."

    They don't give a fuck about soldiers beyond the "respect". Very few of my coworkers know that I'm a veteran. I don't want questions that they want to ask, and I definitely don't want some conservative mfer to thank me for my service. I seriously hate that shit. I didn't do anything that makes you more safe.

    They acknowledge that people go places and do stuff that "messes them up" but refuse to even attempt understanding mental health. "My cousin came back crazy, he won't talk about what they did to him" without realizing that "they" is the system of continuous wars for wartime experience and the military industrial complex's profits, despite them engineering for a war that doesn't exist.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    God, I hate the “Thank you for your service” bullshit. I get it all the time and I wasn’t even enlisted. Especially from the conservatives, who thank you, then vote to cut benefits. It’s like fingers down a chalk board.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Havana syndrome? Eh it's not worth looking into.

    That's reserved for CIA operatives willing and able to convert the guilt of their actions into projection of an imagined enemy.

    but also:It's just Cicadas.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Havana syndrome, spies and diplomats getting drunk on the job and claiming it's a new weapon by Cuba that no one has proof to.

    I recently got called a Russian spy because I linked wikipedia saying it didn't exist.

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago

    This seems entirely plausible, there is no accountability in this administration.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    On brand for Plastered Pete or should I say Hogwash Hegseth.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    The “pilot rescue”…I haven’t seen any pilots, but I saw a lot of blown up wreckage…

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    There are no winners or losers in war, there are the dead and people who have to live with it.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago

    You mean Pentagon Pete, the Piss Poor Peruser of Alcohol and Pedophile Protector?

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    Secretary Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Not Pentagon Pete, the Paragon of Truth!?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    a decades long torrent of US taxpayer money will flow to every Trump affiliated contractor imaginable to rebuild all that infrastructure and lost equipment. And a tiny trickle will flow toward treating the wounded. But we'll be paying for this for a long, long time.

    Good thing ramen is delicious. How do you guys like to doctor your ramen cheaply? I know about the red pepper packets from pizza places.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This right here, I am trying to feed ten in my home and I can easily spend $2,000 a month if I am not careful. Needless to say I can afford about $0 right now with mortgage and bills. Looks like we will be eating ramen.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ten is a lot. That must be stressful, I feel for you.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Thank you. I love my family and I wish I made like $80 an hour. We all have to live within our means, it is just inflation has made everything so much more more expensive. I also didn't buy a home until three years ago so I am late to the game with a 6% mortgage.

    I can totally see why some people struggle and even fail through no fault of their own. If I came down with something awful like cancer it would probably cost my family everything. That is what I think is wrong.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Soldiers are just numbers. Numbers are part of statistics, not of human emotions

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    He's got 10 shades of eyeliner and lipstick to dress this pig up with.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    No, really? Who would've thought.

    Captain Woke couldn't fight a war with a stoned flock of seagulls.

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