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M3333's avatar

I worked for the US Department of Defense for 22 years and met some really great patriots. I am absolutely livid at the draft dodger Orange Monster and his plastered Petey! Both are war criminals!!!

Margaret Rivera's avatar

Best comment by far -- 'Pete -- you need to go and spend 2 weeks on this USS Abraham Lincoln. No special treatment, just bunk and eat w/the guys and carry on duty, just like the guys. Oh and don't forget to get that testosterone shot before you go -- make sure you're all pumped and ready to fight.

Julie's avatar

Great work Heather 🙏🏻☮️

Sue P 1953's avatar

Heather,

Thank you for keeping this horrible situation front and centre,

Just when I believed that this regime could not sink any lower, it has found another shovel.

Daniel Shim's avatar

Last carrier based navy to cite the myth of their service members “superior warrior ethos” as justification for not rotating their soldiers, seamen and aviators home for regularly scheduled rest was the IJN during WWII - and it cost them dearly.

Kido Butai got crushed at Midway after operating nonstop well before even Pearl Harbor, but rather than tell citizens at home what had happened, the Japanese military diverted wounded survivors after the battle to heavily guarded out of the way naval installations away from Tokyo, Kure, Sasebo, and kept their own wounded seamen interned till the end of the war so that they couldnt tell their families what happened.

By 1943, because they flew all their experienced airmen nonstop, without rotating them home for leave until they died, there was such an acute shortage of capable aviators that the IJN drastically lowered the standards for entering flight training AND they drastically reduced the amount of training given, to a much lower quality of brainwashed flight cadets.

And of course by 1944, rather than injecting these young clueless kids with testosterone, they were sousing them with sake, before ordering them to go die for the Emperor.

Dipshit Pete is an ignorant landlubbering motherfucker who doesnt appear to me to read, so these basic lessons on carrier warfare and naval aviation from WWII are completely lost on him, and leave no prayer that he could have possibly learned one fucking thing from the history of the Middle East.

What is tragic is that the price of that kind of ignorant dipshittery of schmucks in his position or the position of Japanese WWII military leadership is always paid for in the price of wasted young human lives.

N Wingrove's avatar

Thanks for repeating what families have been saying, seeking help, and getting none. Maybe, hopefully, public outcry will help bring change.

Janette Reget's avatar

More evidence of how this administration is destroying our country

Dale K. Nichols's avatar

Thank you, Heather.

A Sailor’s Life For Me

Let me regale those at home with a tale

Of what it’s like at sea

For two hundred eight consecutive days—

A Sailor’s Life For Me

Life on board is not what you think

With no hot water for weeks

The showers are moldly, the toilets stink—

A Sailor’s Life For Me

Half-cups of rice and tortillas, at times

With nothing else to eat

We wait for mail that never arrives—

A Sailor’s Life For Me

Morale is gone, to them we’re pawns

They say, “indefinitely”

When asked how long this could go on—

A Sailor’s Life For Me

Some friends of mine at the end of their rope

Have taken their lives at sea

The rest of us still cling to hope—

A Sailor’s Life For Me

Dale K. Nichols

https://nevertrumppoetry.substack.com/

john andrew singer's avatar

trump couldn’t win a monopoly game