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Holy hell... I continue to be dazzled by how anticommunists can just omit something as serious as the USMC's ineconomy from history. Not even Wikipedia has an article on the individual replacement system, and few of its other articles mention it.
Much of my knowledge about the Western Allied forces comes from learning about the Jewish adults who served them. For example, there was one instance where a unit almost committed a massive war crime were it not for one defective grenade. More generally, though, Jewish staff sometimes had to put up with casual antisemitism, and Imperial America apparently failed to investigate the mistreatment of its Jewish POWs.
I kind of get why hardly anybody wants to talk about the USMC's inefficiency. The fact that Westerners are now pretending to care about antisemitism and yet nobody talks about Imperial America's antisemitism throughout the 1940s is just... mind-boggling.
Indeed, I never appreciated the sheer disregard the US army has for its soldiers until watching that. The fact that IRS went on all the way through Vietnam really says volumes.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
