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i say swears online posted:the early 70s was the wind-down phase. In 68 there were 17000 US military deaths, by 74 there was one isn't it worse to die or get otherwise hosed up when fewer of your friends are doing it?
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It's the Chaco War and the only real competitors for me are like, Iran-Iraq in the swaps to the south and maybe the worst of Vietnam.
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Jul 26, 2022 17:51
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Jul 26, 2022 18:47
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If you die in the Congo war you get to come back as a vengeful headless ghost tho
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The Hihway of Death sounds very not nice especially bc I do not like driving
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https://twitter.com/bazaarofwar/status/1347989300718219264 reading this thread and i can't help but think of War as a Service and cryptocurrency for mercenaries
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/bazaarofwar/status/1347989300718219264 The Pope tried this. Think he called it "salvation"
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In terms of casualty rate the Eastern Front has to be one of the worst in modern history. You could narrow it down to parts of the front like being a civilian in Tribuchowce, where there were 50,000 people and the Nazis left fewer than 100 survivors.
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Jul 27, 2022 04:31
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Being a child soldier forcibly addicted to drugs probably sucks a lot of poo poo.
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Chamale posted:In terms of casualty rate the Eastern Front has to be one of the worst in modern history. You could narrow it down to parts of the front like being a civilian in Tribuchowce, where there were 50,000 people and the Nazis left fewer than 100 survivors. In terms of casualty rate for members of the military, discounting units used for actual suicide missions, possibly the closest you get to a regular assignment being a death sentence was being assigned to crew a German submarine in World War II, which had something like a 75% fatality rate. And while the daily discomforts and hazards were different from those of soldiers freezing to death on the Eastern Front, before your almost certain death the weeks, months, or years spent crewing a submarine were still extremely uncomfortable and terrifying.
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Jul 27, 2022 12:59
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The WWI Italian front where they're fighting IN the mountain and you can hear them drilling to get you sounds like the kind of insanity that would make me kill myself the fastest.
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Jul 27, 2022 13:11
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Verdun was pretty poo poo too.
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Jul 27, 2022 14:02
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Being one of the cave "hospital" nurses during Okinawa sounded like a particular kind of hell.
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vyelkin posted:In terms of casualty rate for members of the military, discounting units used for actual suicide missions, possibly the closest you get to a regular assignment being a death sentence was being assigned to crew a German submarine in World War II, which had something like a 75% fatality rate. And while the daily discomforts and hazards were different from those of soldiers freezing to death on the Eastern Front, before your almost certain death the weeks, months, or years spent crewing a submarine were still extremely uncomfortable and terrifying. There were Luftwaffe units whose job was to shoot down US bombers by literally ramming them in midair then bailing out. They had a projected 90% fatality rate. Obviously a lot fewer of them than u boat crews.
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I chose Rabaul because you could have been stuck there for years, completely cut off from home, living a very basic, almost pre-industrial existence. They had to grow their own food to survive and did better than Japanese on other islands calorie wise. However, they also never stopped being bombed and strafed, even though they eventually had no defences at all. Allied pilots used Rabaul for live fire training exercises.
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MikeCrotch posted:There were Luftwaffe units whose job was to shoot down US bombers by literally ramming them in midair then bailing out. They had a projected 90% fatality rate. Obviously a lot fewer of them than u boat crews. in war thunder if I don't get the bomber on the first pass it's rammin' time. good doctrine
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Jul 27, 2022 16:24
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Bomber crews in 1943 had an average lifespan of 11 missions.
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vyelkin posted:In terms of casualty rate for members of the military, discounting units used for actual suicide missions, possibly the closest you get to a regular assignment being a death sentence was being assigned to crew a German submarine in World War II, which had something like a 75% fatality rate. And while the daily discomforts and hazards were different from those of soldiers freezing to death on the Eastern Front, before your almost certain death the weeks, months, or years spent crewing a submarine were still extremely uncomfortable and terrifying. i dunno how accurate it is but Das Boot definitely made being on a German sub seem like hell on earth
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Jul 27, 2022 16:58
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personally, i wouldn't want to die in any war.
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R. Mute posted:personally, i wouldn't want to die in any war. Why do you hate whichever country you live in??
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_of_Future_Wars
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Why do you hate whichever country you live in??
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R. Mute posted:i live in belgium Good answer
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StashAugustine posted:From purely material standpoint I'd rather be on the US side than the North Vietnamese one Also from an ethical one, as it would be much easier to kill Americans.
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Jul 28, 2022 00:22
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In America, you volunteer for war. In Belgium, war volunteers for you!
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:In America, you volunteer for war. In Belgium, war volunteers for you! Yeah but it costs an arm and a leg.
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Oh look another Moynihan being racist quelle surprise
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StashAugustine posted:If you die in the Congo war you get to come back as a vengeful headless ghost tho that son of a bitch van owen
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R. Mute posted:personally, i wouldn't want to die in any war. What about a communist revolution, comrade?
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Orange Devil posted:What about a communist revolution, comrade? R. Mute has issued a correction as of 10:05 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Well it's not every day I learn of a completely insane imperial atrocity I didn't already know about. Holy loving poo poo what in the absolute gently caress?
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This is next level holy wow
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That's pretty hosed up but in looking for corroboration I haven't been able to find any sources saying they actually did that and I found at least one random website that says it's a myth and that photo actually shows dummies, not real people: http://smothpubs.blogspot.com/2018/04/reggane-1960-dummies-in-desert.html. If anybody has sources other than that one tweet I would love to see them.
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Jul 28, 2022 11:54
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Orange Devil posted:What about a communist revolution, comrade? only if I get to be put on a poster/made into statues
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vyelkin posted:That's pretty hosed up but in looking for corroboration I haven't been able to find any sources saying they actually did that and I found at least one random website that says it's a myth and that photo actually shows dummies, not real people: http://smothpubs.blogspot.com/2018/04/reggane-1960-dummies-in-desert.html. If anybody has sources other than that one tweet I would love to see them. If you look closely at that photo it's pretty clearly of dummies not actual people. Not that that means the story isn't true. E) the photo in the tweet, not in the link here. Same photo but in the tweet its much higher quality. Radical 90s Wizard has issued a correction as of 13:12 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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If it were true, French right would hold a remembrance party for it every year.
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War and Pieces posted:only if I get to be put on a poster/made into statues *monkey's paw curls as you die falling into a vat of molten steel*
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