I have to confess something. For two years, I was a contracted IT worker for the US armed forces. (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by BeamBrain@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I don't want to give too many details so as to avoid doxing myself. I never left the US and wouldn't have done so if asked, but fundamentally, I don't think that really matters. It's all part of the same machine. It was well before I became anything that could be described as communist, but all that means is that it hit that much harder when I had to come to terms with what I'd been a part of.

Maybe that's the sort of thing you can't ever make up for, but I'll spend the rest of my life trying anyway. If anyone on this site never wants anything to do with me again after having read this, I understand.

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[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago

I was in the Marines and took part in the occupation of Iraq. Some people don't want anything to do with me, and honestly, respect. But I'm generally welcome here. And people like us can report from the belly of the beast and speak to specific evils, we need to get this information out. I've talked at least 3 people out of joining up, and many many people into considering that the military might not actually be a good thing and or turned them against war.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the response. I'd like to hear about some of the stuff you've seen, if you don't mind.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

Gonna be honest, it's too long of a story and I don't really want to get doxxed. But here's the cliff notes.

Insane amounts of money going to even the most basic things. Like contractors can just slurp up mountains of cash just to build a plywood shack.

Intel on various oppositional country's governments where various industrial parts that have multitudes of uses are reported as "possibly nefarious". This then gets leaked to the media to say "they're building wmd's".

Really gross abuse of rank and file service members.

Extreme alcoholism and sexual assault.

Learned how the whole apparatus has its tentacles in every country around the globe.