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  • ComradeKingfisher [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Thinking about how during the yearly war games simulating a conflict with North Korea, 80% of the radars we lost were to friendly fire.

    Every single year, it literally took a magic wand to reach the NK capitol and """win""" the war game.

    The commanders kept ordering us to the dumbest fucking locations (partially because there's hardly any good locations to place those things, due to how mountainous the area is), and it took many painstaking hours to plan the route and to let the software execute the route in irl time. So after all this effort, the units would arrive on site, and not two hours later be blown up. We first thought it was because opfor had scouts in the area, but after repeatedly hearing the guys responsible for the arty units execute a fire mission not two minutes before our units got blown up, we got up and had a little chat with them.

    After checking their fire mission history, it turns out the vast majority of our radar losses were from them. I talked to some of the other guys commanding various ground forces, and after recording the locations they lost units at, turns out our arty was responsible for a lot of their casualties too.

    It was fucking absurd. We literally had our locations and routes manually marked and updated on the fucking irl map, and there were in game drones that could tell their controllers if a unit was a friendly. All commanders had to do was check those two things to not murder friendlies. Despite this, the irl officers telling the guys where to shoot would just not fucking check things before ordering a fire mission.

    If it weren't for the civilian contractors being able to use the magic wand tool to revive the units, we would've lost every single radar across the entire army (not to mention dozens of other ground forces) by day 3 of the conflict. Mind you, these radars are absolutely fucking vital, and they're a high value target for a reason. We don't have many of them in service, we don't have many spares in reserve, they take a lot of time to produce, and it takes a lot of time to train a competent crew capable of operating in a neer peer conflict.

    0 fucking communication. Astonishing levels of incompetence. A complete unwillingness to fucking learn from mistakes. A total disregard for the lives they waste. If I hadn't radicalized while serving, the knowledge that my leadership would have gotten me fucking killed through sheer stupidity would've been enough to make me get the fuck out as soon as I could.