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Duncanpup

(14,460 posts)
1. Is the military a reflection of society.
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:27 AM
13 hrs ago

No not this with this all volunteer military. Where I’m going is in my 3.5 years i only met one dude in my two rifle platoons that came from money everybody else was basically came from the blue collar
sector.
Yet here we are kicking troops out over identity politics and it is bullshit. A lot of the people calling for this never even served yet if you’re medically able to deploy then what is the problem.

It’s kind of like desegregation around Korean conflict will the black soldiers fight. And desegregation proved all the racist wrong. I told dude who was complaining about women in infantry. I said 160 women have graduated RANGER course and several women have graduated Special Forces assessment yet the RANGER course is finest leadership course the army has. Yet it is 62 days of ball crushing existence and the dropout rate is high.

Not sure where I went with this yet it just pisses me off this attack on transgender troops.

If they succeed in doing this and it is not challenged in courts. Next up will be the LGBTQ military members. And there has been LGBTQ in every army from Hannibal crossing the alps to today.

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