I don't know why.

Fate or something.

They’re sniper fodder here

Guess it’s the jungle

Maybe it’s the title

2LT

2-lite

Get recognised as bright fucking snowflakes

I realize that is a terrible pun

First rotation the 2lt got popped while doing hearts and minds so when he got replaced we put him in the oldest cams we could find and kept him dirty.

Oh God

Made him look as unimportant as possible.

You know what my biggest complaint is on though?

Fucking logistics

oof, getting purple hearts here is an embarassment. means the enemy qualified on you

Mate don't even get me fucking started.

Cunts can never bring enough and yet we still get blamed

So I have two good ones for ya before I go to sleep haha

Logistics is why America wins

One is we had an arty unit attached to us for a bit

Logi couldn’t give them their shit on time so they had to procure their own fucking rounds

Being under usa command was always the best. You knew you'd never run out of bullets.

Turns out some of the shit they got were goddamn _flechette rounds_

Hahaha

Wew

Oooooooo boy the shitstorm that followed after that

Mate

These cunts were firing the 107’s like nothing

Third rotation without usa support we were gathering aks and all the ammo we could find.

And then it’s like... the fuck is that whistling shit

All of a sudden wood is turned into Swiss cheese

The other one

So we had a guy, luckiest cunt if I ever saw one

Had his helmet _shot clean off_

But he comes out of it with not even a scratch

😂

We ask logi if they can bring us a replacement

And I shit you not this is how they respond yeah

Uh you don’t have any spare in HQ?

Like

_HQ_ what the fuck mate we’re in the middle of the fucking _jungle_

As force recon _what fucking HQ_

Oh yeah nah we’re not gonna send a single helmet for a single guy you guys will have to figure something out

So we end up pretending to be a bunch of hobos

Buying a fucking cast iron pot

Shoot through a couple of eye holes in the cunt

And got him to wear that for the next two months

😂 😂 😂

that's awesome

As far as I know the pot is still hanging in our barracks in Nueva Ecija

But in both instances we got blamed

The first for “not ensuring proper and efficient use”

I still have the piece of frag that nearly got me

Also for “irresponsible use of a mass casualty weapon”

Lodged right into my cover.

Oh fuck

_Close_

Mate if we ever meet

I have a scar on the back of my head yeah

Cunt glanced me

If it was lower by about half an inch I’d have no head

Its always the close calls that stick in your mind hey?

Fucking oath

I'm fucking covered in scars. The only ones I remember is where some POS nearly got me.

I’m just glad most of it is covered by a shirt

I’m not sure how it is up there but vets aren’t exactly looked up to around here

man you live in a shitte place

That's just Australia

^

I'll ask my aussie buddy when we chat tonight

how his area is

The sad thing is the military here seems to be getting fucked up with SJW nonsense too

They seem to be lowering standards for women now

Let more of them in

If it's not ANZAC day when they get the day off civilians really don't care.

And the ads are getting super cringey as well

don't you guys get a year of unemployment too?

well a year and then check in in order to get another year

I got a dishonourable from a third world country mate, no such luxury for me

fuck bro

Also as far as I’m aware, the VA here isn’t much better than in the US

Especially when it comes to mental health issues...

45 weeks of pay if you're medically discharged and the you have to prove to a government body that it was the armies fault you got hurt

Canada has a similar issue re: lowering standards. I worry about JTF2

It was easy for me because I was blown up but for others not so much.

Is there a country that handles mental health issues well?

Prolly not

The US was at least trying early on I think, but...

Like

People go on and on about the barbarism of late 19th and early 20th century psychology

Mental health is hard to diagnose and treat. Its probably almost impossible to get right.

Dissolving the institutions was a terrible idea tbh. Now they're just homeless

Institutions would make it easy and probably drop the suicide rate.

But they seem to forget that the entire reason we know as much of what little we do know at the moment is _because_ of that shit

It's not perfect but better than nothing.

my buddy was blown up too and got an honorable

Hefty reform was needed for sure, but dropping funding was a step in the wrong direction

I honestly think we need to raise the age of combat troops.

You reckon raise enlistment to like 21 or something?

People who's brains aren't fully developed shouldn't be in combat.