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[USAsoldier]

Originally Posted by Russ38

Need I say more.....

Bro I can't take you seriously with having Marilyn Manson as your avatar profile pic lol.
Marilyn Manson removed some of his ribs so that he can suck his own di**.

So umm... that's very telling of ya bruh.

#ModTies

[Russ38]

Originally Posted by Oralist

I served and feel good about it. Our neighborhood places American Flags in our yards on appropriate Holidays. A good neighbor places yellow ribbons on all of the Veterans flag poles. I'm proud to have that yellow ribbon on my flagpole.

Not saying I'm any kind of hero, but I feel good about serving.

As you should....and I thank you for your service sir....

[Russ38]

Originally Posted by USAsoldier

Bro I can't take you seriously with having Marilyn Manson as your avatar profile pic lol.
Marilyn Manson removed some of his ribs so that he can suck his own di**.

So umm... that's very telling of ya bruh.

#ModTies

^^^^^ Fucking really? That’s all you have wannabe soldier? Stick with your tabloids.....this handle is even more of a joke than your other ones.....

[Spoogebob Cumpants]

Would it be outing to say you were the kid on the wonder years? LOL
JK
Just wanted to get that out there, wouldn’t want it to slip out unexpectedly.

[Russ38]

Damn almost forgot about that one....kinda like how it was discovered that Benny Hill is actually Ozzy Osbourne’s dad....who woulda thunck...

[tbone2u]

Damn....Now I don't have to go back and look for all his bullshit. He did me a favor. Thank you

[USAsoldier]

#Truth

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...ed~curatedpage

[USAsoldier]

I was an Army grunt at the pointy end of the American spear. But no longer.
-By Army Major Danny Sjursen

I’m one of the lucky ones. Leaving the madness of U.S. Army life with a modest pension and all of my limbs intact feels like a genuine escape. Both the Army and I knew it was time for me to go. I’d tired of carrying water for empire and they’d grown weary of dealing with my dissent and with footing the bill for my PTSD treatment.

I entered West Point in July 2001, a bygone era of relative peace, the moment, you might say, before the 9/11 storm broke. I leave an Army that remains, remarkably, engaged in global war, patrolling an increasingly militarized world.

In a sense, my early retirement is an ignominious end to a once-promising career. Make no mistake, I wanted out. I’d relocated 11 times in 18 years, often to war zones, and I simply didn’t have another deployment in me. Still, I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t admit that I mourn the loss of my career, of the identity inherent in soldiering, of the experience of adulation from a grateful (if ill-informed) society.

I hope more serving officers and troops gather the courage to speak their minds and tell Americans the score about our brutal, hopeless adventurism.

I recognize that there’s a paradox at work here: The Army and the global war on terror made me who I am. Deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in particular turned a budding neocon into an unabashed progressive, an insecure aspiring dealer in violence into a pacifist, or as near to that as a former military man can get. What the Army helped me become is someone whom, in the end, I don’t mind gazing at in the mirror each morning.

Should I thank the Army then? Maybe so. It’s hard, though, to thank a war machine that dealt death to so many for making me who I am. And no matter how much I tell myself I was different, the truth is I was complicit in it all.

I wonder whether something resembling an apology, rather than a statement of pride in who I’ve become, is the more appropriate valediction. Some peers, even friends, may call me a heretic — a disgruntled former major airing dirty laundry — but I plan to keep explaining that we are engaged in Orwellian forever wars that professional foot soldiers make possible while the rest of the country goes to work, tweets, shops and sleeps (in every sense of the word).

I am not sorry to leave behind the absurdity I witnessed.

Farewell to the generals who knew tactics but couldn’t for the life of them think strategically. Who were unwilling or unable to advise policymakers about missions that could never be accomplished. Who shamelessly traded in their multi-starred uniforms for six- and seven-figure gigs on the boards of corporations that feed the unquenchable appetite of the military-industrial beast.

So long, too, to the chauvinism in the senior ranks that asserts a messianic American right to police the globe. Farewell to the faux intellectualism of men like former Gen. David Petraeus who have never seen a problem for which improved counterinsurgency tactics wasn't the answer and are incapable of questioning the efficacy of force, intervention and occupation as ways to alter complex societies for the better.

Goodbye to the devotees of American exceptionalism who filled the Army’s ranks, and to the hypercapitalism and Ayn Randian conservatism among officers in what is the nation’s most socialist institution. Godspeed to the often-hypocritical evangelical Christianity and the rampant Islamophobia infusing the ranks. Ciao to the still-prevalent patriarchy and homophobia that affects everyone in uniform.

Ta-ta to officers who put “duty” above “ethics,” and to the troops who regularly complained that the Army’s Rules of Engagement were too strict — as if more brutality, bombing and firepower (with less concern for civilians) would have brought victory instead of stalemate.

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Sayonara to the adrenaline junkies and power-obsessed freaks atop so many combat units, folks who lived for the violence, the rush of nighttime raids without a thought for their often counterproductive and bloody consequences. It’s a relief to leave them behind as they continue to feed the insurgencies the U.S. battles far faster than they kill “terrorists.”

Toodle-oo to the vacuous “thanks-for-your-service” compliments from civilians who otherwise ignore soldiers’ issues, foreign policy and our forever wars.

Maybe it’s hopeless for a former Army major to fight American militarism. Still, I plan to keep attacking in that lost cause. I’ll be here, speaking up, as a counterpoint to a system that demands compliance. And here’s the truth of it: I’m not alone in my views; as supportive texts and emails to me have made clear, there are more silent dissenters in the ranks than you might imagine. I hope more serving officers and troops gather the courage to speak their minds and tell Americans the score about our brutal, hopeless adventurism.

I was one of them, an obsequious grunt at the pointy end of the spear fashioned by a warlike government ruling over an apathetic citizenry. But no longer. The burdensome, the beautiful, the banal and the horrific — that was my war story and it is still the nation’s. Goodbye to all that, and hello to what’s next.

Danny Sjursen retired from the Army in February, after tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan, and teaching history at West Point. He is the author of “Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge.” Twitter: @SkepticalVet. Podcast: “Fortress on a Hill.” A longer version of this essay appears atTomDispatch.

[Slitlikr]

If you are truly a gi, you enlisted for the benefits only.
Quit your bitchin.
Shameful

[Prince Akeem Of Zamunda]

How effective are supreme directives?
I need a couple of them shits

[winn dixie]

Originally Posted by Prince Akeem Of Zamunda

How effective are supreme directives?
I need a couple of them shits

More than that! With all the women you harass!
Way to go playing the victim again!

[tbone2u]

Pxs hero is a disgrace to the uniform he wears and to this country.
You should be a shamed sir

[pxmcc]

Originally Posted by Prince Akeem Of Zamunda

How effective are supreme directives?
I need a couple of them shits

they are great for ppl with a life for dealing with obsessed trolls who have no life. i have one S.D. request currently on back-order lol. mods are probably waiting for this person to get banned on points or to blow through enough warnings before implementation lol..

[Russ38]

Originally Posted by USAsoldier

#Truth

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...ed~curatedpage

Like I said earlier.....anyone can cut/copy/paste....what a joke....

[Spoogebob Cumpants]

Gotta think it’s bs for sure... much like big dick guys don’t go around telling everyone how big their dicks are, I don’t think active military guys would be that smart leaving traces of illegal activities to which they could be prosecuted under the ucmj (which gives you zero rights as a human being , much less an American).
I’m calling bullshit.