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cool, cool now show the career paths in the military people follow broken up by income classes
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https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1213607199278338051
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Wheeee posted:cool, cool To become and officer do you have to go to one of the West Point, Air Force Academy, Naval Academy? Can you rise to upper levels without going to those? Seems hosed that people that were in heavy fighting are limited to how far they can advance.
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Jan 5, 2020 05:15
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Class mobility built upon a foundation of imperial oppression is a morally excusable thing, and furthermore
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Like the military seems like the very thing you want to be about meritocracy. The best people leading your nation into war. Let's put a guy just out of college in charge of people that have been fighting in war for a few years.
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iirc you have to have a college degree to be a commissioned officer
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Wheeee posted:cool, cool I remember looking at the staff pictures of 1st Marine regiment and noticing every CO was white and every SgtMaj was black except the one Hispanic one. Anyway being a troop makes you complicit but it doesn't mean they aren't taken advantage of.
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Strasburgs UCL posted:I remember looking at the staff pictures of 1st Marine regiment and noticing every CO was white and every SgtMaj was black except the one Hispanic one. personally i prefer when things are simple and black and white so i know who to hate unconditionally
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1213672645549576192?s=20 https://youtu.be/84-l0qpnAm8
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ngl, i'm pleased to see muqtada al-sadr back in the mix
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stop blind linking youtubes in this thread you fucks!!
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1213672645549576192?s=20 So this means the US is going to either have to leave or overthrow the government they created right?
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gonna have to reinvade Iraq and rescind the Taliban peace talks just to have bases to invade Iran with
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Raccooon posted:So this means the US is going to either have to leave or overthrow the government they created right? there's always the guantanamo option of maintaining the bases against a fundamentally hostile government and population i'm sure it'll go swimmingly
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Jan 5, 2020 05:39
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Raccooon posted:So this means the US is going to either have to leave or overthrow the government they created right? we could and probably will just ignore it and dare the Iraqis to evict us forcibly
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Raskolnikov38 posted:we could and probably will just ignore it and dare the Iraqis to evict us forcibly We will be liberators! *holds country hostage because tormp* When does Iraq vote on the thing?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:we could and probably will just ignore it and dare the Iraqis to evict us forcibly I don't know how supply lines work for US bases in Iraq but seems problematic.
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Raccooon posted:I don't know how supply lines work for US bases in Iraq but seems problematic. The US shifts to a war economy to supply parts for all the Ospreys that break down or crash on supply runs
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Trump triumphantly announces that he has ended the war in Iraq as they kick us out
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Iraq is going to declare Kamala Harris the interim us president and the Khive are going to occupy the embassy
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Raccooon posted:I don't know how supply lines work for US bases in Iraq but seems problematic. it’ll be like a dozen different gitmo all dependent on air supply. a dozen dien bien phus at once
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Strasburgs UCL posted:I remember looking at the staff pictures of 1st Marine regiment and noticing every CO was white and every SgtMaj was black except the one Hispanic one. The Canadian Army Infantry Regiments are similar but throw in some French guys. Poor people, most women and most minorities sign up to be cooks, mechanics, electricians or carpenters and get out after their 3 year hitch. Middle class guys from the suburbs - white or otherwise - either take Football Studies or go to the Military College and come in as officers or overwhelmingly go into the combat arms as grunts to live their Call of Duty fantasy.
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Valleyant posted:We will be liberators! They were planning to try to hold the vote Sunday, so today sometime
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saudis are right there and we can easily airlift from there tbh
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Raskolnikov38 posted:it’ll be like a dozen different gitmo all dependent on air supply. a dozen dien bien phus at once That's what I am wondering. Are they air supplied or require routes through the country? Surely all the bases can't have runways for supply aircrafts.
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Raccooon posted:I don't know how supply lines work for US bases in Iraq but seems problematic. The Berlin Airlift but for an entire country and forever
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millions of gallons of fuel to fly in water every single day lmao
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Grondoth posted:Trump triumphantly announces that he has ended the war in Iraq as they kick us out Wasn't this exactly what Obama did.
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:saudis are right there and we can easily airlift from there tbh until iran starts lobbing missiles into saudi
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Raccooon posted:That's what I am wondering. Are they air supplied or require routes through the country? Surely all the bases can't have runways for supply aircrafts. helicopters, also we could land supplies at Baghdad international and dare the guards to stop the trucks
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Raskolnikov38 posted:millions of gallons of fuel to fly in water every single day lmao Dying for trump's water bill
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Grondoth posted:Trump triumphantly announces that he has ended the war in Iraq as they kick us out I genuinely believe it is the only way the war will ever end
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:saudis are right there and we can easily airlift from there tbh "easily"
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gradenko_2000 posted:Wasn't this exactly what Obama did. Yeah the real reason why Obama out got kicked was the Status of Forces yearly agreement didn't give complete immunity to the US military. etalian has issued a correction as of 05:54 on Jan 5, 2020 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Wasn't this exactly what Obama did. I think it was more that the government had a decision already in place as to when we would leave, negotiated in the Bush years, Obama honored it, and I feel like he took more flak for that from republicans than he got credit for leaving even though he didn't actually do a goddamn thing so it shouldn't have mattered But I don't know. I don't remember clearly enough. I don't think they very clearly voted to kick us the gently caress out, though, after we did something really horrible.
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