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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    I’m a bit over 30 and most of them look already like boys to me. Wonder how bad that must be with 50.

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deM
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    Hand grenades are vastly superior fighters compared to Navy SEALs. When hand grenades complete their mission, they simply cease to exist, but Navy SEALs get book deals, shit takes on twitter and a podcast

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      When hand grenades complete their mission, they simply cease to exist,

      Non-service connected condition.

      SEALs get book deals

      This is a conundrum…

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    As someone who is supposed to be there to defend American ideals, shouldn’t he be happy the kids are exercising those ideals and voting? It means he’s doing his job well. And yet this.

    Rather worrisome regarding Trumps future use of the military against Americans he doesn’t like. Shows a willing level of aggression there that is disturbing.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    Give this man a Fleshlight and a mattress and push him out to sea. He ain’t thriving, hangry for that Harris voter balloon knot like it’s a Cracker Barrel steak. Fuck outta here with that Roman empire shit.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      They need to be easy to train, goal oriented, and loyal enough. I would imagine a lot of psychopaths go into the special forces because of the requirements.

      As long as you only talk about making an organic twink farm, you’re good.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deM
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      it seems like Navy SEALs specifically don’t for whatever weird fucking reason, and that’s how you end up with conspiracy believing dolts who want to eat twinks

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
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        It is likely that they were stable before seal training. But decades of high stress training and dangerous missions while being fed a diet of jingist propaganda to justify the risk will have some side effects.

        • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deM
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          the explanation i see at the old place is as follows: navy seals were afraid of irrelevance when war moved to sandbox, so they changed their skillset (why tf does navy make a raid 1000km inland?) and loosened recruitment selection in the process. this allowed shitheads to join and over time they made navy seals deeply entrenched culture the festering ulcer it is today, which brings in more shitheads and criminals and what have you. rangers or delta force or whatever other SOF unit do not have this kind of problem including book deals. there was an incident where green beret was killed by seals because he found out about seals’ money laundering. similar problems appear in canadian paras

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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      Sounds like you’ve never met a special forces guy

      I was 12, on base with my dad and there was a SAS guy there for joint ops or something. He proceeded to give me a detailed account of how to turn I beams and c4 into projectiles and claimed they used said tactic in Iraq. Fucker had charts.

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      10 hours ago

      They do! To make sure their psychologically unstable enough to be trained as special forces.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        I feel like the army could just recruit the few who go into Fort Polk sane, then again they would have to acknowledge that base is cursed if they did that. Seriously I aint military but that gods forsaken base has popped up way too many times in my studies to not be cursed, and the worst part I think the general intelligence of that hellhole has only increased with time.

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      They used to but the War on Terror increased the demand for SOF so much that they couldn’t afford to be as picky anymore.

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      who exactly would you trust to do that successfully?