Not trying to be sympathetic to these guys but imagine being a 35-40 y/o sergeant or 54 y/o warrant officer in Kuwait and getting BTFO'd by an Iranian missile or drone because Trump felt like fucking around this month.

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 33 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Served the whole War on Terror and nearly got off scott free

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 16 points 22 hours ago

Lol I didn't even make that connection. I know people are young when they join, they didn't know they were signing up for the Imperial death machine, yada yada, but if they enlisted in the late aughts then I'm going to assume they were probably enthusiastic about what they saw going on.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 16 points 20 hours ago

on one hand, i get the feeling - imagining some genx penpusher nerd getting struck directly in the face with a hypersonic missile is kinda a sad demise

on the other hand, infinite shaheds on the yankoid thumbpig bootboys no matter where they are, but especially on those stationed on foreign soil

[–] ghosts@hexbear.net 23 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I hear what you're saying but this is not a choice people make once. It's a choice they make every day of their pathetic lives. It's only fitting they die such embarrassing deaths

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, you can always just take the discharge

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 5 points 22 hours ago

No disagreement here!, these were active ongoing participants.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 17 points 21 hours ago

Occupational hazard.