https://www.duffelblog.com/2014/01/afghan-war/
A Command Sergeant Major serving in Kabul who reportedly said he’d fight the war “so his son wouldn’t have to” in 2001 sort of feels like an asshole right now, after his son joined the Army a year ago and serves with a unit just a few miles away, sources confirmed today.
“When I said that, I thought we were going to, you know, come in, bomb the shit out of them, shoot a few guys, and split,” said Sgt. Maj. Ted Stevens while noting previous U.S. engagements without a prolonged troop presence such as Vietnam and Korea.
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This is a good summary of how horrifying the plot of this game is:
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Damn!, I’m feel like I’m out of breath…
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NukeML
March 6, 2019, 10:24pm
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I’m sure you know that’s a satire site, but this is real:
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I mean, it’s what I replied to. But yeah, it’s a satire site. There’s a lot of articles everywhere making fun of this idea
FAYETTEVILLE, NC—Saying he “never could have imagined” he would have the opportunity to follow directly in his father’s footsteps, 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. Tyler Corcoran was reportedly excited Tuesday to take over his dad’s old patrol route in...
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NukeML
March 7, 2019, 12:01am
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Oops. Missed that somehow. As usual, I’ll blame society for my mistakes.
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A $1 BILLION pentagon slush fund fund that could have been allocated to education, health care or infrastructure…
WTF
That’s just petty cash for the US military; they might’ve found it under the couch cushions.
The Gerald Ford CVNs cost $10 billion each. Not including aircraft. And they’re building ten of them.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/us/politics/us-somalia-airstrikes-shabab.html#click=https://t.co/jLumPjMBoX
A surge in American airstrikes over the last four months of 2018 pushed the annual death toll of suspected Shabab fighters in Somalia to the third record high in three years. Last year, the strikes killed 326 people in 47 disclosed attacks, Defense Department data show.
And so far this year, the intensity is on a pace to eclipse the 2018 record. During January and February, the United States Africa Command reported killing 225 people in 24 strikes in Somalia. Double-digit death tolls are becoming routine, including a bloody five-day stretch in late February in which the military disclosed that it had killed 35, 20 and 26 people in three separate attacks.
Africa Command maintains that its death toll includes only Shabab militants, even though the extremist group claims regularly that civilians are also killed. The Times could not independently verify the number of civilians killed. The rise in airstrikes has also exacerbated a humanitarian crisis in the country, according to United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations working in the region, as civilians are displaced by conflict and extreme weather.
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Gotta keep that socialist apparatus running somehowz…
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