Lincón, who was born in Texas to Mexican parents, was issued only a temporary one-year passport after his passport was blown up in the attack and he was asked for additional documentation to prove his U.S. citizenship. After the AP reached out to the State Department to inquire about his case, the 1995 West Point graduate said he received a call saying the request for more information was a mistake and he would be receiving a passport that would be good for 10 years.
There’s the problem right there. He might be a genuine, red-blooded American soldier, but he’s not quite pink-skinned enough for this administration to care about. Also, I’m willing to bet that new passport will never arrive.
Nine U.S. service members who were wounded spoke to the AP on the record — rare for troops still in the Army — about what they describe as a medical system that left them in many ways fighting to get treatment on their own.
This is what the military should know they fucked up
not hearing about officer fraggings yet. I expect that will start soon
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
They were rare bordering on apocryphal during the Draft days of Vietnam. In modern days, all these idiots and assholes are volunteering to be there.
Far more often, you’ve got people in the trenches who aren’t natural born killers and balk at pulling the trigger on anyone. It’s a reflex military training is designed to force out of you.
One of the things Hegseth’s obsession with War Fighters and Testosterone and steriods is intended to “fix”. He doesn’t want an army full of medics and engineers and mechanics and accountants. He wants a bunch of macho gun totting trigger pullers who go frothing berserk mode when the shooting starts.
The tactical term for such units is ‘cannon fodder’
But they OVERWHELMINGLY support Republicans who CAMPAIGN on Hurting the Troops? HOW could this be POSSIBLE?
If some of them don’t die, none of them get sympathy sex. It’s pretty much that simple! Why would they vote in a way that keeps them all alive and unfucked? You need a war, so you can decimate a generation of stupid young men, so the survivors can screw anything with legs and make a baby boom!
They are solidly in the find out phase of their lives.
What happened to personal responsibility? I don’t want to get wounded in a drone strike either, so I decided not to put on a military uniform and head out to a(n illegal) warzone to distract the world from the cult of child rapists running it.
We need to do a better job teaching our men to be careful what they wear and where they wear it. Because some people in the world see a hostile military bombing them and think it gives them permission to defend themselves.
A lot of recruiting is targeted to high schoolers. They’re not really known for their responsible decisions.
And the recruiters will straight up lie to you.
Yes, but:
I think the ,told u so!" approach isn’t necessarily the best approach if we want to stop the facists as they feed of division and hatred and actively enforce societal conflicts. If we want to beat them we need to relearn to cooperate as that’s the one thing the left (in theory) is superior in.
