they're more of a stopgap in the event of war breaking out

>Expecting under equipped, undertrained inexperienced troops to be able to hold areas against a hardened insurgency force with experience, and means/willpower to take on a superior force

"How does it feel that the Finance Marine shoots better than you, reservist?"

It's like you almost expect too much from NG

they're there until actually trained units can be pumped out daily

I expect professionalism in the U.S military. I am regularly disappointed.

Now that I'm out of country, a lot of NATO countries think we're dog shit but, they don't dare repeat it due to our influence financially and troop numbers.

Well the lack of manpower wouldn't be an issue if the politicians stopped stepping the military down between wars

A lot of the European armies like Poland and the Nordics view us as we viewed the Soviets in WW2

IE: Troop spam

Which is how we view China. It's all perspective.

I mean... they aren't wrong.

The US military has lost a significant amount of training rigour

I dunno, I've become a salty cunt about the USMC now that I'm out

It really do be like that sometimes

rigor* what are we, english?

Mostly because a lot of our veterans are faggolis

I'm at the point where I avoid buying from "Veteran Business," cause you know it's gonna be a dog shit product packaged behind patriotism

y tho

Oh you aint wrong

BUY MY SHIT BECAUSE I AM A VETERAN, DESPITE MY PRODUCT BEING INFERIOR

Because many vets who own businesses and do that "veteran owned," shit behave in a bad manner if they fuck up an order, make a mistake, or have bad PR by justifying it as you're "anti-vet," even if you have legitimate concerns or claims

DO IT OR YOU HATE AMERICA, AND VETS

Ugh

what you really need is a new war to reshape discipline

No other countries' vets do this shit

nothing major like ww3

Seriously

nononono

but something to push your guys shit in and get your act together

Ngl I've been harangued over my view that veterans are not gods and should cease being put on a pedestal

no do not want 3rd world insurgencies

Our veterans and active duty act like fucking tools on joint operations

I was blown away here in Sweden they don't thank me for my service

Thank *fuck*

@Ringleader064 just invade venezula :^)

Do you know how weird that is

Being on the other end is even weirder

@urzu117 I see what you did there.

I talked to some NATO operatives who were high up in the Cold War, and they say the same shit our current NATO guys say

Which is, we dick about on joint ops, don't take them seriously, and have a serious discipline issue amongst all 5 branches until you hit our higher end professionals or our specialists in critical MOSes.