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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
(www.theguardian.com)
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This bullshit is going to absolutely tank military recruitment numbers.
And also boost retirements of career members who manage and operate the military. Which will be okay with the MAGA Nazis, because eventually they'll have an entire military of followers who will happily kill ANYONE for HitlerPig.
My Dad was a helicopter pilot in the Army, during the late 50s, and wanted to do that for his entire life. Then Vietnam heated up, and he was going to train pilots to go to over there, and might have ended up there himself. Nobody could explain to him why this was happening, and he didn't want to train young men (like himself) to go off and die for a war that nobody could explain, so he quit flying, retired from the military, and got into the insurance game.
I would imagine that a lot of career military are questioning their career paths.
Absolutely.
we can fucking hope so
It would be really bad if the only people left in the military were trump stooges.
Anyone who obeys his orders is his stooge at the end of the day. Doesn't matter how they personally feel about it, unless that leads to them disobeying such orders.
This. And that's a good thing
Military will lose tons of public support for turning on us. All those military holidays? They won't be a thing to celebrate.