Message from @P I L L A R M A N

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2019-05-08 01:20:37 UTC  

I trained with a lot of foreign militaries during my first enlistment and I have got to say that like if it wasn't for the technology difference, the Columbian and Peruvian armies could probably beat the marine corps infantrywise

2019-05-08 01:22:01 UTC  

So marine corps infantry doctrine essentially boils down to "there is a brick wall ahead of us, we are going to keep bashing our heads against the wall until it breaks or falls down, when it eventually does we'll claim that we were successful"

2019-05-08 01:22:30 UTC  

that stubbornness is good in some scenarios but it's what got a hell of a lot of them killed in Iraq

2019-05-08 01:22:41 UTC  

Marines are basically the Slavs of america atm

2019-05-08 01:22:52 UTC  

yeah brute forcing shit doesn't work out so well irl

2019-05-08 01:23:58 UTC  

The army isn't all amazing either but we have our shit together relatively speaking

2019-05-08 01:25:06 UTC  

Honestly if the corps would get it's shit squared away, it wouldn't be so bad.

2019-05-08 01:25:23 UTC  

Their biggest issue is lack of focus branchwise

2019-05-08 01:25:23 UTC  

But with things going the way they are, I doubt they will

2019-05-08 01:25:37 UTC  

I think the Navy is doing the best atm

2019-05-08 01:25:37 UTC  

They don't know what they want to be as a force

2019-05-08 01:25:50 UTC  

Idk man I have friends in the 7th fleet

2019-05-08 01:25:58 UTC  

And they paint a different picture about the navy

2019-05-08 01:26:30 UTC  

I.e undermanned, overworked, shits falling apart, Chiefs are half shitty etc

2019-05-08 01:26:50 UTC  

Turning into the brits

2019-05-08 01:26:51 UTC  

I mean that same complaint can be extended mil wide but you squids got it rough sometimes

2019-05-08 01:27:16 UTC  

Ya we are under manned but it depends on command really

2019-05-08 01:27:18 UTC  

Military in general is in some bad times

2019-05-08 01:28:10 UTC  

Honestly joining in peacetime is kinda stupid unless you do a very technical role

2019-05-08 01:28:18 UTC  

And at that point just go air force and have it easy

2019-05-08 01:28:48 UTC  

Or coast guard and go do something useful

2019-05-08 01:29:03 UTC  

My step brother is a coastie

2019-05-08 01:29:10 UTC  

It's underrated

2019-05-08 01:29:12 UTC  

Doesn’t do shit but fish all day

2019-05-08 01:29:17 UTC  

Everyone shits on it but they're a cool branch

2019-05-08 01:30:07 UTC  

I have only had interactions with him and honestly those are pretty few and far between. But they do some cool drug interdiction stuff.

2019-05-08 01:30:32 UTC  

Lol yeah that's more than you can say for the rest of us

2019-05-08 01:30:34 UTC  

That whole not getting paid during government shutdown is pretty fucked though.

2019-05-08 01:30:48 UTC  

I did some fun stuff in the army but like damn most of it was just waiting around

2019-05-08 01:30:54 UTC  

Saaaaaaame

2019-05-08 01:30:56 UTC  

Yeah that part was shitty

2019-05-08 01:31:09 UTC  

Back in 2014 we had something similar with the shutdown then

2019-05-08 01:31:14 UTC  

When DoD wasn't funded

2019-05-08 01:31:20 UTC  

2011 it happened too

2019-05-08 01:31:25 UTC  

Everything around base was closed for 2 weeks

2019-05-08 01:31:33 UTC  

Nothing happened

2019-05-08 01:31:35 UTC  

I was in Germany and they were like hey no ones getting paid

2019-05-08 01:31:47 UTC  

Yep it's pretty dumb

2019-05-08 01:32:06 UTC  

We were in Graf so it didn’t really make a difference to us at the time

2019-05-08 01:32:09 UTC  

But yeah the constant doing nothing especially once the wars mostly ended is the worst part

2019-05-08 01:32:38 UTC  

Totally agreed. Garrison army shit blows. Deployments are a whole different beast.