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In reply to the discussion: Kegsbreath: So "Captain" Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order & discipline... [View all]sop
(17,078 posts)30. Hegseth recently quit AA and joined AAA. Pete figured they could tow his car home from the bar.
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Kegsbreath: So "Captain" Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order & discipline... [View all]
demmiblue
Nov 25
OP
In the Nam, he'd have been woken one morning by a grenade tossed in his hootch. Just sayin', it could happen.
marble falls
Nov 25
#3
2nd Lts used to scatter like roaches when a high ranking NCO came into the room.
Irish_Dem
Nov 25
#84
Yes Trump is destroying the US military by taking away the ability of troops to make decisions in the field.
Irish_Dem
Nov 26
#135
That's because a strict hierarchal society does not have the flexibility to allow initiative.
haele
Tuesday
#145
Exactly. Trump is destroying the US military by installing a losing command structure.
Irish_Dem
Tuesday
#146
This scene from the movie, Rules of Engagement is pretty much the truth in '68.
MarineCombatEngineer
Nov 25
#114
There were little rules, one was don't stay too close to the radio man. another: don't stand up yelling orders.
marble falls
Nov 25
#121
Yeah, back then the antennas on our PRC 25's were a dead giveaway, unlike today's
MarineCombatEngineer
Nov 25
#122
One way to look at it, another way is that in a hellish situation soldiers who had no stroke in the decisions ...
marble falls
Nov 26
#139
Can someone confirm that the medals are actually in order and the rows are not reversed?
TheRickles
Nov 25
#4
You'd think the self-absorbed former TV yakker who loves his own selfies would know that
Attilatheblond
Nov 25
#31
It alway amazes me that when someone like Kegsbreath is too fucking stupid to realize they're
MarineCombatEngineer
Nov 25
#19
I know if I had said any of these stupid things that these people say I wouldn't show my face in public
Walleye
Nov 25
#42
"So 'Captain' Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order & discipline...
sop
Nov 25
#10
Putting Kelly's rank in quotes "Captain" is an insult and insinuating Kelly does not hold the rank of USN Captain.
Irish_Dem
Nov 25
#12
Exactly. We are witnessing the destruction of the finest military in the world.
Irish_Dem
Nov 25
#56
I have thought for eight years now that Putin must laugh himself to sleep every night
Walleye
Nov 25
#87
You are right, I should've said foreign enemy, which is what we usually think of as an enemy
Walleye
Nov 25
#86
Wouldn't surprise me in the least that Hegseth thinks he is talking to an O-3 (Army captain).
Irish_Dem
Nov 25
#58
We used take the train to Yokosuka from time to time to shop, as their base exchange store...
3catwoman3
Nov 25
#71
Hegseth recently quit AA and joined AAA. Pete figured they could tow his car home from the bar.
sop
Nov 25
#30
And right there is proof of why stupid people shouldn't drink and post shit they know nothing about.
MarineCombatEngineer
Nov 25
#38
Fascists strike back when their authority and illegal actions are challenged.
Martin Eden
Nov 25
#41
Hegseth is an ignorant dick. He put Captain in quotation marks like he is pulling some kind of rank on Kelly.
flashman13
Nov 25
#63
Hegseth should be required to take a breathalyzer test before he is allowed to make any public statement
Blumancru
Nov 25
#82
It takes a "Major Asshole" to put an honorable officer's rank in quotation marks.
Harker
Nov 25
#101
Generals, admirals, and other high-ranking officers must feel let down to toe the line to this drunken minor major.
Norrrm
Nov 25
#102
Does he still have to take his wife along to hold his hand at meetings because he's not safe to be let out on his own?
Emrys
Nov 25
#107