ginalynn8942
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Jul 24, 2024 3:57 PM
ginalynn8942
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Turbogoat
I have spinal compression, wrecked knees and shoulders, massive hearing loss with a dose of Tinnitus, and apparently none of it's service related, thank goodness. I really thought my vehicle hitting that landmine might have done some damage, guess I just got lucky.
eigeress
Some people serve and some give their all to 10 men. Who's to say they don't all deserve medals?
TheMeatIncident
oof
TheMeatIncident
is that all at once?
IgnisInvictus
Does... does it matter?
copperdomebodhi
PSA: PTSD is treatable. If the Veterans' Administration gives you the runaround on mental-health help, the Give-An-Hour program will connect you to a therapist for free: https://giveanhour.org/
NeoAcario
I have screws in both knees... a jacked up neck and shoulder.. and every unknown sound makes me want to grab a gun. But hey, the screws in my knee helped keep my recent injury at only a fracture instead of a break. If I didn't already have screws... I would have needed them.
NeoAcario
And of course the constant eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
cellfreeDNA
I have bad knees and tinnitus, but thanks for the college money.
Sleepy360
And the back. That's crappy also.
th3grimlin
My knees hurt and I can't feel feelings anymore.
NeoAcario
Yeah... but that certainly does help us stay ice cold during any sort of event that other people consider an 'emergency.'
captainnewbi
to be fair, a lot of military guys rush and pressure marriage with girls who are not ready or specifically targeting them to get bonus money while deployed. So they share the blame in thier own victimization. it doesn't help that thier peers implicitly encourage them to do it by bragging about the benefits and other stuff.
I served 6 years in the Marines and my unit was deployed.
And they also foolishly share thier entire bank accounts.
This happens mostly to younger members.
captainnewbi
young girls, typically don't want to get married young, and most guys and girls don't know how well they can survive long periods of no intimacy, so it's just a recipe for disaster that can also create a lot of resentment for each other and the other sex in general.
captainnewbi
additionally, a lot of guys cheat on thier gf and wife while deployed if given any chance
thedroids
So you're saying, in general, don't marry young lol
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
It definitely helps not to. Divorce stats show that. People need to figure themselves out first, give themselves a chance to try out life on their own. After you do that, you have a much better shot at finding a good partner.
thedroids
Yeah I know. I was just kidding a little bit because that's a pretty common sentiment. But your example sheds more might on the specific obstacles young military couples face
ahorseelbowdeepinme
I got relatively free socialized health care for a genetic disease and it's been a real lifesaver
yerpflop
I got relatively free socialized healthcare for a bunch of cancers and autoimmune problems from burn pits.
BaconAlmighty
The VA? yipes
FFSharkHunter
Depends state-to-state and facility-to-facility - just like private practices. My experience in Ohio has been great. My friend’s in Louisiana has been garbage.
ahorseelbowdeepinme
I've been to the Phoenix VA, the one I see in the news the most, and honestly it's not that bad. I have a certikas and my treatments cost something like 25K but I don't pay for it. I rarely have scheduling problems and have never been dissatisfied with the service. I realize my experience doesn't necessarily reflect reality in general but I couldn't afford my meds without the VA.
HashMaster9k
Agreed, but I've found that the VA works differently depending on what state you're in. For example— my wife is a retired Marine. She used to live in WA, and the VA in that state was just in complete shambles, causing her no end of strife. She then moved to OR, and SUDDENLY the VA worked as advertised and actually worked to actively help her. Yes, she sometimes still has issues with Community Care since they are not centralized in OR, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was in WA. So it varies.
sendbobsandvageneiguess
The 2 in Tucson are fantastic
TheLooja
I live in Kansas and I dont know if its the lack of people or what, but my VA experiences have always been pretty easy.
whitelighterskill
That's a thing you should just have access to as a human right lol. I'm glad you got help, but joining the military shouldn't have been necessary for that.
ahorseelbowdeepinme
Agreed, I often point out my experience and my free social health care from the American government as an argument in favor of it being a universal right
Jagadid
But if they did that they couldn't hold it over poor people's heads as an enlistment tactic.
Tumescentpie
It is always weird how many people in the armed forces don't understand that it is a socialist program with all of the benefits of socialism. It is really insane that all citizens don't immediately become enrolled in a similar program to our military at the age of adulthood.
Jawesome19
I'm 35 and wish I could still join so my family could have decent benefits
Tumescentpie
Wouldn't it be fantastic if you had all of the benefits of our military just as a citizen? The ubi, the medical, the housing, the food, etc. We have something called currency sovereignty and the only thing we'd have to do to afford it would be for congress to make it so. We could instantly increase the standard of living across the entire US, but we won't because rich people love the value of the dollar too much and won't give up any of their own wealth to combat inflation.
FFSharkHunter
I’m the same way, and with my VA coverage it’s continued. I don’t know how anyone can look at the current state of things and say it’s tenable. My wife has had arthritis her whole life, and if it wasn’t for the good fortune that her parents had great health insurance and now she does she wouldn’t be able to walk. The medication that keeps her a productive member of society and keeps her quality of life up would bankrupt us, and we pull in just about $150k/year as a household. It’s criminal.
hungoveratworkguy
PleaseRespectMyAsshole
I worked with a girl whose husband cleared their bank account of $30k and left her while we deployed to the Persian Gulf. There was a very real fear that she was going to kill herself.
Erumun
how is he the king of incels with a wife?
InsertTabA
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king, he didn't say she was a good wife.
raiker333
He was celibate. Prob why she screwed 10 other dudes.
afstephanie31415
I'm a female combat vet. My husband did this twice to me.
JustOneLocust
I also choose Theodosia.
Oatmealman1
The amount of times I hear about spouses cheating on their enlisted better half... It's just disgusting. Don't fucking get married if y'all gonna be whores (men and women, ofc).
L4dead2
I would always tell anyone I knew in the military, don’t marry the first person you meet
alisa2089
This is the root problem honestly. I was dumb enough to do it, marry someone in the military because the military said it was required because he was being stationed somewhere else. Oy vey.
BeerBatteredandBold
My response to most authority is to assume they are incompetent and I show up way too early to everything.
Cpthornswoggler
I can't imagine the PTSD of drone warfare. They're either dropping small changes without you hearing or seeing anything, or coming right at you motors screaming.
ArkoneAxon
It's also a problem for the drone pilots. Not only do they suffer the same guilt and issues as conventional bomber pilots, but they don't even have the chance to refuse to bomb civilian targets. Libyan pilots dropped their bombs on empty fields and bailed out rather than drop them on civilians - but a drone operator is stuck in the same room as an officer with a loaded gun saying, "DO IT."
DdCno1
Still, I've seen at least one video of a Ukrainian drone operator guiding a surrendering Russian soldier to safety. It's incredibly rare though.
ArkoneAxon
Yes. It depends on the organization. Ukranian drone operators are not U.S. operators. Remember that Chelsea Manning was locked up and tortured by Obama for whistleblowing about how as many as 90% of the casualties from our drone strikes were civilians.
ChimkenDumplin
Knew a 'Nam vet once through a roommate. We were at his apartment one day chillin' 'cause he had good weed (relatively; as good as an illegal-weed state gets) 'cause...Coping mechanism. 'Bout twenty minutes on, I reach for the fuckin' thing and dude pulls a big-ass knife from the sofa cushions and starts losin' his shit. ...I moved too fast, while high, so pretty slow. But too-fast enough. And now there are drones n' all this? Fuckin' hell...Could not convince me to sign up for any of this shit.
MarioBoon
"KingOfIncels" really sound like the name a veteran would take...
pinkmansaidthebest
But, he got the mustang or charger right? Right?
Lowslefthand
If you join the military to be a firefighter do you get a Charger or a lifted truck?
L4dead2
I hate you. How’d you know I got a charger
HashMaster9k
Yep, and the $750 a month payment on their 22% APR loan for it, too!
L4dead2
Hey I only got 18%
HashMaster9k
This guy didn't have a mandated Staff Sargeant there to cover his ass, like he was supposed to.
thebonesofmyancestors
Someone called Hetero @KingOfIncels should be assumed to be a raging liar 100% of the time.
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
Reminds me of the chick that dropped her boyfriend off for deployment and immediately went to shoot porn
Niagaran
Karma for signing up to kill brown people for oil. ACAB extends to the military - they are all cut from the same cloth.
HotDogPantsX
AReallySatisfyingPoo
I also choose this guy's wife
cgt9803
Everybody did
johnson442
Get in line, apparently!
trigonman3
gigglefitsmcgee9000
Somehow I doubt Hetero @Kingofincels ever served in the military or was married.
Manhoarder
Something that I've heard a couple of times is that people who serviced get LIED to about not having some sort of promised compensation by their upper ranks? I'm sorry it sounds so vague, there's a specific word for the compensation that I forgot, I heard PirateSoftware mention it a few times.
BallyHille
Yeah, this kinda backfired...
Freak0zoid
Yeah. I remember the clusterfuck when this dropped
lifeisadadjoke
In a row??
irisewithredeyes
On death row!
Nandortherelentless
ManByTechnicality
Leave mymother out of this.
Jangande
I've seen that done in air force dorms
BattleSalad
Simultaneous fireworks too
lordsupafly
He was only gone for the weekend...
Dalael
At the same time.
mratio
BlackHeartConstructs
Yes, but that's per day
Donoiw
Nah, it doesn't matter how the fireworks are laid out.
CoarseAndSalty
Yes, behind a couch, do you not understand this meme?
datphone777365
Daily.
Lightsmith
At once
dadof2as
They weren't always queued up nicely
ptenopus
Yep, the video is on PwnHub
fewmenchew
Did he stutter??
yetanotherdoug
In a column
powwerbottom
"One time I sucked six in a rooowwww" https://vimeo.com/2809672
RandomGuy12345678910
baals
Nice
AlonzoMoselyFBI
lifeisadadjoke
Nice catch! Thanks!!
MadamPuddifoot
I think that was the top comment when this was posted last week, too
bingtittletittlebong
Try not to "f any guys" on the way to the parking lot
DanimalRC
Hashbrown123
I can't buy a pack of smokes without runnin' into nine guys you fucked!
080080
goddamn this was a great movie!
Futanarya
just in the parking lot
OmnesMundiLardum
Let me tell you a secret. In the heat of the moment, it's okay to go A to M.
BaconAlmighty
On the way out of dropping me off for my deployment
historycat
BobaFettApproves
She made you Lassagnnna
Strostkovy
all at once
TrustMeImADog
But she only got seven holes...
IAmTheBadW01f
That's quitter talk
IgnisInvictus
First thought: That math don't math right. (It's 6, if you don't count the ears. ) Second thought: Why am I mathing? This is hilarious!
Strostkovy
7 through holes, sure. There are more blind holes.
UpvoteBuddyJesus
I'm always curious why the answer is never, I killed some people who didn't need to be killed for reasons that were later proven to be bullshit. I mean, killing people impacts you.
datphone777365
Cus the right wing civis will likely shit on you till ya take the lead supplement for speaking up and being a traitor. Its most likely gona be ya family that does it too.
CoachMcgurl
Because that's not a fun memeable answer.
SkirtSpinner
being fair, the majority of us never fight. i just fix computers for military air fedex, for example
PagetheFound
Several reasons i think. Murdering people up close, is very different then killing demonized enemy's from afar. 2ndly, learning a while after the fact that a action you first believed to be right was wrong, is way less impactfull. 3rd: You know "collateral dmg" is unavoidable in times of war and have made your peace with that. Lastly: Being able to kill is a quality frowned upon today, but was very much a ( evolutionairy) nessescity for those b4 us, and thus might not impact others as it may you
sumthinsumthinsumthin
At the same time?
Shadowborne
While he was still in basic, she was pro training.
zlinos
That would be slutty..
sumthinsumthinsumthin
I support her in having her desires become a reality.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
I mean if you're gonna cheat, at least go big.
ginalynn8942
Probably 😳
sumthinsumthinsumthin