Acting Sec of Defense Announces MAJOR Troop Reductions in Middle East Wars (Read 13572 times)

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Acting Sec of Defense Announces MAJOR Troop Reductions in Middle East Wars
« Reply #60 on: November 19, 2020, 09:26:16 PM »
So how about those pro-war imperialist lefties saying the sky is going to fall down if we adopt "isolationist" policies? I guess they were never very good at minding their own business.

The same people who donated to the Biden-Harris campaign and the Clinton-Kane campaign?

Funny how if you simply want to put your own nation's priorities first, you're an "isolationist."  That, even though you have plans and policies that also help our allies.   :wacko: :crazy:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Acting Sec of Defense Announces MAJOR Troop Reductions in Middle East Wars
« Reply #61 on: November 21, 2020, 04:26:22 PM »
This is 2 months old, but VERY germane to this topic.

Lots of facts re: Biden and the military with regard to endless wars, especially Syria.

Follow the money....

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

changemyoil66

Re: Acting Sec of Defense Announces MAJOR Troop Reductions in Middle East Wars
« Reply #62 on: November 21, 2020, 07:54:37 PM »
This is 2 months old, but VERY germane to this topic.

Lots of facts re: Biden and the military with regard to endless wars, especially Syria.

Follow the money....


If biden is elected, i can see more troops being sent overseas. Just hope their families voted for trump and not biden. Or they got what they voted for.

My friends wife voted for clinton in 16 cause she thought trump would bring us to ww3. Her husband is in the army with 3 deployments already. She voted for trump this election.

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msp3

Re: Acting Sec of Defense Announces MAJOR Troop Reductions in Middle East Wars
« Reply #63 on: November 28, 2020, 03:58:19 PM »
Now we know why Trump wasn't *allowed* to win. He doesn't want to invade, occupy foreign countries, and let the "national security" types wantonly kill as much as they like without regard. Oh the humanitarian horror! But don't worry, war is liberal, loving, and good now that the other side will be running them.

Flapp_Jackson

I would join the airforce and do computer stuff,  maybe drones.  But combat ain't my thing.  Use people whos skills best work with the goal.

Air Force **

You don't have the skills for Air Force computer "stuff".  I did that for almost 10 years on active duty, plus another 16 years as a contractor.

I deployed to Thailand, S. Korea, Japan, Alaska, Guam, Saudi Arabia, etc., for operational exercises and actual operations.

The systems I supported for the most part WERE part of combat, as in planning, executing and assessing US and allied air combat missions.  It included database, communications (satellite, ship to shore, unit to unit in country, etc.) and software troubleshooting.

I didn't go into the Air Force with "combat skills."  Nobody does unless they graduated from a military academy and/or ROTC (mostly Army and Marine ROTC cadets did real combat training). 

I trained with and was issued a sidearm when I deployed to the Middle East, even though I was well behind active combat areas.

Drones?  Mostly trained pilots operate those.  You still need a pilot's sense of aerodynamics and performance limits to be an effective drone pilot.  For surveillance and such, it's a lot easier.  Guiding a drone with munitions is a different ballgame.

You might believe things about the military that aren't true, like you can go into a career field such as computers and never be part of the actual war.

So frapping naive.  You really ought to stay in your lane.  It's better to ask questions and get the real info than pretend you know what you're talking about to people who have lived it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw