Article is from late last year, but I can’t imagine its gotten much better for them since
Good, stay that way.
They’re so desperate I saw airforce recruiter pamplets in a tropical smoothie. I guess its the only branch appropriate for someone who likes “healthy” food and/or cold smoothies. (Funny since I briefly thought about the chairforce before realizing I didn’t want to die for oil.)
Thankfully they have banned trans people from joining the military, and they’ve even started kicking out long time trans soldiers with a dishonorable discharge.
I started freaking out about a draft but then I remembered I’m 34 and trans so seems unlikely, unless they get very desperate. If they do I’m fragging my CO
Draft me I’m normal I can be trusted with a tank
But have you considered them using ISIS + The Kurds?
Gil Barndollar is a former Marine officer and a current scholar of U.S. foreign policy and national security.
gil’s been trying to get the draft reinstated for a long time.
i actually surprised myself by getting to the end of this piece. took a long time since i was shaking my head in disagreement every other line lol
If I get drafted my life is actually just over
take an officer or two with you
They wouldn’t dare, I’d kick their ass
Thank you for keeping me safe dirt owl. Guessing my therapist can vouch for my gender dysphoria too.
I’d be happy to help you in any way I can to leave the country if you ever felt the need. I’m sure others here could help too depending on the country you wanna go to or can go to.
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idk how concerned I should be
Unconcerned.
If a draft does happen, just don’t report. It will be stressful but its doubtful that the US policing forces will be able to do both “deporting all brown people” duty and “rounding up everybody who didn’t report for the draft” duty.
Shit, when you do regular military service you are expected to do a “Reserve” stint that lasts some amount of years after your active duty term is over. Thing is, unless you did some really niche job, nobody is going to take the time to hunt you down if you don’t report to a reserve unit. Even with all the “we never meet recruiting numbers” articles and “retention is horrible” articles.
It’s always a good idea to maybe contact an org that might have your back if shit hits the fan, some kind of support network at least.
Obviously nobody is doing a ground invasion of Iran. It’s so annoying seeing people frame it this way. As has been mentioned all over already, they’re going to do the air bombing campaign of Libya, Gaza, Vietnam, Korea, etc.
They don’t need to do some meticulous ground invasion if their goal is just to reduce a society to rubble. They’ll just drop bombs and fire missiles until people are dying of water-borne diseases.
We’ll see. There are a lot of factors to consider, not just troops obviously. We’ll have to wait and see if it has any real lasting impact.
It’s still interesting to note how low the morale of US citizens is.
I’d say dying by nuke doesn’t sound like a bad deal right now, honestly. Better than internment camp or wasting away as an elderly person in an isolationist society with no medical care or safety net after working constantly to make others rich. The problem is worldwide, too. It’s not just the US.
hang in there, you ain’t alone.
The problem with militarism is eventually you run out of others people’s teenagers.
Tell that to Russia.
Hey Russia, you’re all out of teenagers
The US wasn’t ready for Iraq and Afghanistan, either. I remember a general on TV saying we’d need 4 million troops to occupy Iraq. We had 4 million troops total stationed across the globe. Still, Bush decided to open up a second front.
The difference is in 2001 the US was at the height of it’s power.
A problem easily solved by having a recession.
This was what happened during the build up to WWII in Nazi Germany and Japan.
In fact, Europe is already doing so with their militarization budget. In China, anecdotally, I am already seeing more and more military recruitment ads. Not surprising given the high rate of youth unemployment in China right now.
We are going to see more and more military build ups across the world as the global economy enters a recessionary phase.
I seeI hope we don’t get into another world war. But there are some serious parallels with the 1920s-30s right now…
Even history can’t stop making remasters instead of new IPs
Same here in Canada re: military budget and military recruitment ads (targeted too e.g. at natives)
well, you’ve got to run out of violent sociopaths eventually
There’s no shortage there. They just aren’t interested in risking death.
two dudes in glasses in the pic lol if I’m going to war I’m not doing it with my fucking glasses on
I know contacts will fuck you with chemical weapons in your eyes but tbh you’re fucked then anyway and I need my peripheral vision and for my vision to not fall off my face
In basic they don’t let you use contacts, they issue everyone who needs them identical glasses with identical sports straps.
If wartime I would recommend shatterproof eye protection, comes in shaded and unshaded, prescription and non-prescription. There’s a reason why “operator” dudes all kind of end up looking the same, it’s cuz that’s what works.
How identical are we talking here? Just frames or lenses too?
hmm okay “standardized” would be a better word than “identical”, I’m pretty sure they give you your specific prescription it’s just that all the glasses look the same.
As a long-time glasses wearer I don’t imagine they’d be 100% identical, that would be near useless for most wearers who weren’t like, -1 myopic if that were the only glasses provided.
Anyone with astigmatism or a higher prescription (probably starting at -3 and stronger) would be probably better off not wearing glasses at all than wearing mis-prescribed glasses, and at that point their eyesight would be too poor for standard activity.
Frames also need to increase in thickness as the prescription increases, because the lenses get proportionality thicker too. A thin frame will either be too narrow/weak to hold the lenses, and the overhanging glass is a physical hazard
Yeah, it would be stupid and counterproductive, but we’re talking about the US military so I figured I’d ask.
Yeh definitely worth asking and tbf I don’t have any special insight into how the military would do it other than the fact that I’ve walked around with glass in front of my eyes for most of my life.
I’m guessing maybe they’d have standardised frames and lenses that go up in gradations of 0.5 or 1, and can easily be swapped out. They probably wouldn’t allow for astigmatism because that’s different for each person so the correction may be off for some wearers, but so long as the degree prescription is okay they probably make do.
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Literally the first line of the article:
Coverage of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza is mostly dominated by talk of weapons.
It goes on to address this perspective and make an argument why troops are important. Did you actually read it before coming to that conclusion?
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It depends what kind of war. Drone warfare is great if the opposition is a non-state actor or a weak state where obliterating them at a distance and letting someone else deal with the clean up is on the table. Against a state on relatively equal footing that has the capacity to deal with drones and would require a proper occupation in order to defeat, it’s not that useful.
That’s what happened in Ukraine, a lot of the weaponry the U.S. sent over that was good at taking out ISIS didn’t fare so well against the proper Russian army.
All the blob actors are making noise about confronting China. There is no confronting China without a draft. Even if this is all a charade to juice stock prices, it could easily get out of control. Anyone who is of a draftable age or has friends or relatives of a draftable age in the US should have a plan for getting that person out of here.
my plan for the draft is the same as what I’m doing for student loans, ignore it ignore it ignore it, make them drag it out of me kicking and screaming, and then go nuts and kill my CO if they kidnap me to boot camp
and then go nuts and kill my CO if they kidnap me to boot camp
The only moral way to serve in the US army.
And if Iran is downing your F35s China will sink your aircraft carriers and whatever’s on them within the week. The weapons they’ve sold are outdoing the Eur*s’, imagine the shit they keep for themselves
Even with a draft, how are you gonna get anyone there?
Trump Cruise Lines. if you contribute your own money during conscription, you can upgrade your travel package and rank. a contribution of $1 million earns you the rank of Commodore and you are allowed to steer the ship!
I said how are they gonna get them to China, not Davey Jones locker
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