Operation Dessert Storm
The Green Buffets
Meal Team Six

  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 hours ago

    I’m not pleased they’re being deployed, but these guys aren’t choosing to go to these places. They signed up for national defense (and not the kind that blows up schools in a desert on the other side of the world) and often helping with major disasters.

    The Texas National Guard absolutely did not sign up for policing cities in Illinois or Oregon, and I’d bet vast majority are not pleased to be there.

  • Kirp123@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Does the US National Guard not have fitness requirements? Because I doubt those guys can run or do a pull up.

    • Firoaren@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 hour ago

      Yes, but they sure don’t have qualified recruits anymore.

      You don’t pass your PT tests, no benefits, but you don’t get to go “oops I quit” either. So you wind up with situations like this - even unfit soldiers can’t be replaced these days

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    3 hours ago

    But Call of Duty told ME that the National Guards are forces to be reckoned with because they’re fit and can take Burgertown from the Russians! Are you saying they lied?!

    In all seriousness, however, a US general’s concern was correct that America is too ill-prepared for a war, precisely because most Americans are ill-fitting.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    39
    ·
    9 hours ago

    Pretty sure they were already failing to meet standards when the tax payer flew them up there for no reason to begin with. Could have saved a lot of transport dollars with a preflight check in. Hell, a zoom call would have outed some of them!

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      7 hours ago

      These guys? They look like troops, not generals. Don’t recall ever seeing Schwarzkopf carrying an assault rifle.