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Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Pekinduck posted:

When necessary the military just lowers recruitment standards from "we'll take anyone" to "we'll take anyone" The Iraq surge was known for this as seen in the legendary GIP thread:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3519705

I've heard the post-vietnam volunteer military was a complete shitshow too.

Can you sum up that 435 page for me?

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Pekinduck
May 10, 2008

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Can you sum up that 435 page for me?

Its entertaining reading trust me.

But the first post gives you the gist.

BIG FLUFFY DOG
Feb 16, 2011

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.


Pennywise the Frown posted:

Can you sum up that 435 page for me?

People in the army are dumb but also half my words are incomprehensible acronyms you’ll have to google.

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

Pekinduck posted:


I've heard the post-vietnam volunteer military was a complete shitshow too.

I saw this in the documentary "Stripes"

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
it's my understanding that we sent our best and brightest so i'm sure it all went fine

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

I believe that they have won the hearts and minds so I wouldn't doubt it

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Punkinhead
Apr 2, 2015

Pekinduck posted:

When necessary the military just lowers recruitment standards from "we'll take anyone" to "we'll take anyone"

I heard this from a marine so take it with a pound of salt but he claimed to know a guy who was legally blind in one eye who got denied from the marines so he just went to the army and they took him no problem.

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