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riversedge

(80,781 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:00 AM 10 hrs ago

commanding general of Marine Forces Reserve distributed this letter "Prepare your family"








The commanding general of the Marine Forces Reserve just distributed this letter to reserve troops.

"Prepare your family."

The Trump administration is preparing young American men and women to face combat, and potentially death, for another pointless forever war.

The commanding general of the Marine Forces Reserve just distributed this letter to reserve troops.

"Prepare your family."

The Trump administration is preparing young American men and women to face combat, and potentially death, for another pointless forever war.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 (@joshuaeakle.com) 2026-03-28T22:19:43.155Z





Your Commander in Chief is on the green

(@sanneru.bsky.social) 2026-03-29T14:47:57.657Z

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commanding general of Marine Forces Reserve distributed this letter "Prepare your family" (Original Post) riversedge 10 hrs ago OP
Official Family Preparations attached C_U_L8R 10 hrs ago #1
I.O.W.s are you ready to go and kill Iranians and possibly die in an un-winnable war for Donald Trump, Bibi Botany 10 hrs ago #2
Senator Collins will express concern.... Thunderbeast 4 hrs ago #21
And as WW III gets closer and closer, as more American come home in coffins or on stretchers, and Botany 3 hrs ago #22
And it's 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 infinity what are we fighting for? Blues Heron 10 hrs ago #3
From your lips BaronChocula 7 hrs ago #13
The younger men of the Trump family will be preparing their Polymarket bets tanyev 9 hrs ago #4
"Fight's on!" Kid Berwyn 9 hrs ago #5
While Trump golfs, some in his Admin are looking for a way out of TrumpsWar with luck riversedge 8 hrs ago #7
Crazy Train must nonstop loop in his head. Kid Berwyn 5 hrs ago #18
I wish trump would start a draft DownriverDem 8 hrs ago #6
Any draft he and his henchmen would establish... llmart 8 hrs ago #8
Preserve stability in the Western Hemisphere? lonely bird 8 hrs ago #9
The US has long considered itself the world's policeman, and ... eppur_se_muova 7 hrs ago #17
Send MAGA to the meat grinder Eddie Haskell 60 8 hrs ago #10
Along with AI robots... BattleRow 7 hrs ago #12
I wonder how many will think to themself nope Figarosmom 8 hrs ago #11
"Prepare to die in a war BaronChocula 7 hrs ago #14
Damnit. A lot of "our" daughters and sons will be gone. irisblue 7 hrs ago #15
War! Scalded Nun 7 hrs ago #16
Are your orders legal? n/t returnee 5 hrs ago #19
Do we know this for real? I tried searching for sources but didn't come up with much except for social media chia 5 hrs ago #20
That was better than I expected Renew Deal 2 hrs ago #23

Botany

(77,304 posts)
2. I.O.W.s are you ready to go and kill Iranians and possibly die in an un-winnable war for Donald Trump, Bibi
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:18 AM
10 hrs ago

Last edited Sun Mar 29, 2026, 12:32 PM - Edit history (1)

… Netanyahu, Mohammad bin Salaman, and to try to distract from Donald Trump’s decades long association with Jeffery Epstein, Vladimir Putin, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel’s Child Sex Trafficking
election rigging, black mail, kompromat gathering, money laundering and murder syndicate. Just remember that as you are laying on some dirt road in Iran dying from having your legs blown off that
your family back home in Tennessee will get a nice folded American Flag and Trump will go golfing
and talk to Vlad Putin on the phone who was using his Russian satellites to make you a target.

Botany

(77,304 posts)
22. And as WW III gets closer and closer, as more American come home in coffins or on stretchers, and
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:37 PM
3 hrs ago

the world’s economy hits the shit bucket not one of those Republican mother fuckers will have
the courage to stand up for what needs to be done and that is stop this war and get that bat shit
crazy mother fucker out of the White House and stop him from destroying it too. For the love of
dog this nutz! I don’t want America to have anything to do with policing or be involved Iran’s business.



tanyev

(49,264 posts)
4. The younger men of the Trump family will be preparing their Polymarket bets
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:44 AM
9 hrs ago

to place shortly before the official announcement is made.


Kid Berwyn

(24,346 posts)
5. "Fight's on!"
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 12:23 PM
9 hrs ago

Who has authority to send our nation's armed forces to invade a country that was no threat to the United States?

We the People.

And We weren't asked.

Kid Berwyn

(24,346 posts)
18. Crazy Train must nonstop loop in his head.
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:45 PM
5 hrs ago

Anyone who did even one of the things the tangerine traitor has done and they’d be in jail the next second.

Instead, we’re supposed to cheer his treachery and collect his merch.

May John Roberts rot in hell, too.

llmart

(17,609 posts)
8. Any draft he and his henchmen would establish...
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:05 PM
8 hrs ago

would have the same loopholes for the well-connected and well-to-do sons that were in place during Viet Nam. Bone Spurs would be at the top of his list for reasons to not be called up.

lonely bird

(2,934 posts)
9. Preserve stability in the Western Hemisphere?
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:12 PM
8 hrs ago

Um, no. It is not about preserving stability. It is about chaos.

Figarosmom

(11,936 posts)
11. I wonder how many will think to themself nope
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:40 PM
8 hrs ago

Time to get out if they have fulfilled their obligation. I wonder if stop-gap is in place?

Scalded Nun

(1,690 posts)
16. War!
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 02:20 PM
7 hrs ago

"And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Iran;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die." Country Joe (updated)

chia

(2,817 posts)
20. Do we know this for real? I tried searching for sources but didn't come up with much except for social media
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:26 PM
5 hrs ago

International Business Times and a ProPakistani website.

Renew Deal

(85,118 posts)
23. That was better than I expected
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:44 PM
2 hrs ago

It’s basically saying get your affairs in order and be ready.

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