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Lmao 4 milly spent on Chem cleaning clogs what a fucking laugh.
To the troops that flush random shit down the drain that really shouldnt be shoved in toilet bowls, regardless of reasons they may do so, critical support to the troops absolutely wrecking the carrier's latrine system. If I may make a gentle suggestion, please do the officer quarters next. The higher up to totem pole, the better. Thank you in advance and may your deployment be quickly cut short due to mechanical issues.
Stop Our Ship in the 60s/70s
Shit Our Ship in the 2020s
Can they not just shit into buckets and throw it into the ocean? What is the issue here with hygene? That there are 1000s of them on one boat?
Critical support to the troops sabotaging their own imperial warship by flushing things they shouldn't.
Unlimited sewage problems on the baby killers
Like, fuck the military, but how do you reconcile the US military decay with it’s 300 trillion dollar budget (that mostly goes into the hands of Lockheed) if you’re a normie ir even regular military personnel?
Yes, this metal box that the Houthis are making for cents on the dollar is worth the $32 million price tag while I’m served industrial grade vomit at the canteen? Are they this servile?
Are they this servile?
..yes? the whole point of conditioning soldiers is to make them eat shit and smile afterwards. course these grains to heaps usually break a person's brain and they can't live normally afterward but the general idea is they die before they outlive their usefulness
Really wrong choice of word there lol of course they’re servile.
ehh not really, there is a limit to how much shit soldiers eat, and imo it's a much taller heap in the US than other places, but thats a big can of grains
From the hand full of soldiers I've met, they know it, and they only care about anything if it affects their ability to either: A) kill shit or B) get out and go to college
The 18-21ish year olds simply do not make it their problem. The officers and career types... that's just a whole other bag.
But yeah basically.
the grift rots the MIC from within. it's functionally legal embezzlement.
300 trillion dollar budget
That's 10x the entire US GDP. The number you usually hear is 1 trillion.
I wonder if it'll end up sinking from a toilet malfunction like that nazi u-boat from ww2
Oh they meant ACTUAL sewage, not the troops
PISS! SHIT! YESSSS! HAHAHA! YES!
The Burger Reich may have to delay their invasion of Iran because these idiots can't even build a functional plumbing system. 🤣
May they rot in shit 😂
Maybe they just need to eat more fiber.
Taking a well known system - the gravity flush toilet - and tossing it out the window.
See, there's your problem - there's no windows on a naval vessel!
If they had just taken the perfectly working toilet design and tossed it out the porthole, then maybe things would have been different.