Operation Dessert Storm
The Green Buffets
Meal Team Six

  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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    4 小时前

    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.

      • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
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        They can’t just quit. They’re under a signed contract, which can be penalized with jail time if breached. Refusing orders is also not as simple as it sounds. Each soldier has a duty to refuse an unlawful order. However, if you disobey a direct order, and it is later determined to have been a lawful one, you will now be punished for failing to obey orders, might be a slap on the wrist, might be a dishonorable discharge, or could even be a court martial with jail time.

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    6 小时前

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

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      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

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    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.

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    11 小时前

    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!

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