https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/home/2023/02/14/being-a-marine-is-enough-of-a-bonus-no-2-marine-corps-general-says/
Literally the single greatest self own in history I think. At least in twitter history.
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lol
The Army is committed to the health, safety, and well-being of our Soldiers
if someone sent me to die in Iraq I would consider that a lack of concern for my health, safety, and well-being
Kill and be killed for the imperial extraction machine, paid in exposure 👍
nice, i hope the U.S. military does lose "the fight for the future". :freedom-hater:
lmao
Even though I was a lib and joined the Marines, I wouldn't have done it without the $10k signing bonus I got for my MOS.
completed it, got all the other benefits too. The GI Bill is great and every single person on the planet should recieve it or something equivalent.
I've heard there are grunts that can't even afford food with their pay these days and are getting official guidance from the Army on how to apply for food stamps. Combined with the huge numbers of young people being disabled by Covid I really wonder what the war machine plans to do for manpower over the next few decades.
One of the points on my own personal Belden plan involves proposing tripling the salary of the enlisted by cutting money from weapons purchases, to cause a larger rift between the enlisted and the commissioned officers who are trying to get a job consulting for a defense contractor. Like why shouldn't a US Army private make $75K a year plus benefits?
I honestly thought you lived on a base and ate mess hall food, or do they charge you for that???
In the army, unmarried enlisted soldiers below the rank of staff sergeant (E6) live in the barracks and eat at the mess hall.
Married enlisted and all officers get an allowance for food and housing, the amount varying from base to base.
For example, a married PFC (E3) with 3 years of service stationed in San Diego gets $2.4k (before taxes) in base pay, $3.6k for housing, and $452 for food. This is all well and good for soldier and their spouse (barely), but when you add kids into the mix and how fucking expensive they are it quickly becomes obvious why families are struggling.
IDK why bit there's just something incredibly funny about how he's framing this.
"Okay, so we started the last game off with the assassination of Not-Soleimani. How do we top that?"
What American war crime will be assigned to our enemies this time? I've got my money on the Amiriyah shelter bombing,
Marines are hilarious. Obsolete, largely without purpose, would probably be wiped out in the first days of a peer or near peer war due to being, you know, infantry. But intensely proud of that.
Curious to see how it goes if the death cult is asked to actually die.
Honestly, they serve more an actual military purpose than the fighter jocks or much of the surface fleet.
Edit: I guess one issue with US infantry is that they are trained with the assumption of compete air superiority.
Yeah. the US does have total air superiority, but if anything happens to challenge that there's no way the US will be able to pivot to ground warfare quickly, if ever. Like if the S-500s can reliably shoot down F-35s or someone invents a giant ass laser that can melt B-52s the whole US war machine crumbles.
More evidence that the people running the Machine today are the propaganda-ingesting failsons of those who did in prior years.
The Marines and Army are two different branches of the military with different recruiting metrics, this isn't an own
haha clearly the marines are taking all their recruits. You should ask those guys for some
