“Getting random indirect fire is not the same as watching the entire gym and coffee shop and some dorms get blown up from a door less than 50 meters away,” said one service member.
US troops experience real war for the first time ever
"Hm... This is a lot different than Call of Duty..."
This is in fact nothing like Boss Baby 
It's like when reddit brigade got hit with a Russian missile almost immediately after crossing Ukrainian border and survivors started whining that it is unfair.
It's so funny. What did they think war was?
Killing brown people with overwhelming force, of course!
Calling in an airstrike on a family picnic from half a mile away
"Getting random indirect fire is not the same as watching the entire gym and coffee shop and some dorms get blown up from a door less than 50 meters away,"
and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
Wow, guess Marcus Aurelius, a literal Emperor, wrote a book about something else...
These people aren't even human, I swear
This guy has been trying to back up his point by citing Meditations...
Holy fucking shit
oh pooor babies, don't want to fight a foe that can actually punch back. If it was invading another weak country, these same troops would only be thinking about their free health care and college.
I am harm's way, you're not supposed to send me into harm's way
the entire gym and coffee shop
wtf do soldiers even do
Secure the existence of our treats and a future for white mocha Frappucinos
I laughed too hard at this holy shit lmao
Paid vacation where you execute doctors and newlyweds for fun
This reminds me of the "Survivor fight" scene from Curb Your Enthusiasm
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Huh, wonder what this graph says.
maybe the data simply reflects a renewed interest in arena FPS games 🙂
googling "fragging" on my barracks wifi before I immediately get court martialed and executed
“Getting random indirect fire is not the same as watching the entire gym and coffee shop and some dorms get blown up from a door less than 50 meters away,” said one service member.
Thirteen troops have been killed in the war so far, and at least 232 have been wounded.
Putting those two lines next to each other seems to imply the author has some doubts about those figures too.
Its The Cradle, so yes, that is the intention. The huffpo article which it's summarizing does not have those two lines next to each other.
Is US militarism built largely on the shaky ground of claiming to be the best, untouchable military force? An agreed upon humiliation on the world stage really could kick off this long-coming chain reaction then.
Certainly since Vietnam it is.
Damn you probably shouldn't have signed up to kill babies if you're afraid to die.
“Getting random indirect fire is not the same as watching the entire gym and coffee shop and some dorms get blown up from a door less than 50 meters away,” said one service member.
The US does not have an army, it has a colonial police force with delusions of grandeur.
It is morally correct to frag your CO
do not be a good german. You have more in common with the Iranian workers than you ever do with the owning class.
Huh, i wonder if it have something to do with a remote probablity of being killed because they attacked a opponent that can fight back, for once, instead of just massacring helpless people like usual.
Of course not! Americans famously have high levels of empathy for West Asia.
American GI, you have readily access to firearms and explosives, and you greatly outnumber your leaders
Just Do It™
For any US navy soldiers who may be lurking, just remember that apparently their carrier laundry rooms are very flammable...
and the toilets are very pluggable.
It's for bad reasons, but doing the right thing for bad reasons is still a step up from doing the wrong thing for bad reasons.
"Your imperialist government will never defeat us. Our soldiers are politically motivated and strong. You are weak. You have no cause. No one wants you here. Why do you stay? Tell your officers you want to go home, GI. Tell them you will not fight anymore. Tell them you are defeated."
I don't think the US has been under any sort of artillery fire since Vietnam.
Frag out
When war isn’t operators like CIA Jim
Sure, and I have a bridge to sell these troops!
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