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I mean, operational readiness is higher now than pretty much any period before. I fail to see how someone trans, gay or any other "woke" group impacts the military. You literally served with draftees that were forced into service and became malcontents because they didn't want to be there. How effective were they? Not to mention the entire culture of "fragging" and you want to talk about readiness in today's military? Ok, lol. I promise you the Marine Corps of today is 100x more lethal than in 1969.

This mentality is why Marines like me will celebrate when the VFW and the old service organizations finally die. Maybe what follows can then be inclusive of everyone who has served

Hi S. We miss you at group!

Politics? I don't like the exclusion of other combat veterans, period. If you are not white and male, you are not welcome at most VFW's plain and simple.. The issue is there is a class of veterans that for some reason think they are above any younger veterans, and that's horseshit.

If we haven't "won a war" in 30 years, I guess we have your generation to thank for starting that streak. The non-hot take reality is that warfare isn't symmetrical anymore, just like it wasn't in Vietnam. Victory in most modern wars isn't determined strictly on the battlefield but in nation building and that's where we have largely failed the last 20 years.

"Doesn't have tanks" "underfunded" "shrinking". Two thirds of those are issues that go back to 1775. When are Marines ever "well funded?". Militaries shrink when they stop large combat operations, like 20 years in Afghanistan or the end of US involvement in Vietnam. Lastly, what the hell does an amphibious force need with a MBT? Especially when a lighter more mobile vehicle can fill practically the same role? Your comments here just demonstrate how out of touch you are regarding your understanding of the modern Marine Corps as a littoral force and the shift back to the Corps roots in amphibious operations because when we fight China it won't be a massive land battle, it'll be fought over artificial islands. If you are worried about tanks, go look at how effective they were during most of the Pacific campaign in WW2 (not very).

I mean it's pretty clear you don't understand modern force alignment because instead of having a discussion about the organizational strategies of the Marine Corps in the modern era, you're just repeating a junk headline about the Marines getting rid of tanks.

Responsible for your losses? What does that even mean? And where did I say you "don't understand warfare"? I said you don't understand modern Marine Corps force alignment (because you don't).

You are projecting so much insecurity in just this short exchange. You don't have to prove shit to me and I don't hate you in the least. I do wish you were a little more open minded instead of buying the BS spun by the media about the "woke" military. If you actually served in the modern US military you'd see just how capable and competent it actually is, but by all means keep living in your reality.

Dude. So you have spent 641 days in a country fighting a sentence for 32 days. What sense does that make!? It's not like you got convicted of drug smuggling. Take your sentence, serve your time and leave. You would have been out of there two years ago....