As if the military environment weren’t toxic enough already…
WasteBinStuff on
“Warfighter” “Warfighters” “Warfighting”
He’s awfully fucking proud of his new cool saying isn’t he.
Also, didn’t I hear something about no more wars? What the fuck is going on?
Ready-Ad6113 on
The military has a record of recruits (mostly women) going missing or being found dead. The military is a mess internally and this will only make things worse.
joshtalife on
Fort Leonard Wood had a trainee suicide within the last month. Just wait until drill sergeants start hitting kids again and treating them even more shitty. Hegseth cosplays as a tough guy with no regard for the norms that have worked just fine to train our military.
reddurkel on
The people who promote war the most are the people who never have to fight in one.
Seriously. Is he even looking at the highly decorated military leaders in the room he’s speaking down to? These men serve our country and he’s a talking like a guy who got motivation lessons from Starship Troopers.
joshtalife on
On top of that they are trying to force black soldiers out with their new stricter facial hair policy. Look up pseudofolliculitis barbae if you don’t believe me.
ChloeGranola on
And when the horror stories start spreading on social media, recruitment nosedives even more, and they start talking about reinstituting the draft …
ouchmypeeburns on
What the fuck is a shark attack in this context?
harmless-error on
Colonel Jessup, did you order the Code Red?
AbsurdityIsReality on
Yeah we should definitely train our recruits like Russia does, it’s worked out so well for them…
wambulancer on
lmfoooooo recruitment is way down, how do we fix it Pete? “Publicly, loudly state we’re going back to treating the noobs like fucking SHIT!”
brilliance on display from the White House, as usual
Kratomius on
It seems US is getting their new generation of of Private Pyle’s and similar incidents.
Icy_Ad_8802 on
I’m pretty sure a lot of the USA problems would be lessened if the men in power at the moment got together to suck each other’s d*cks as it is pretty obvious that they’re eager to do so.
PassengerNo2259 on
Drinky Pete has one fingernail still hanging on to the doorframe of the closet. Dude it’s okay to come out, no one cares that you’re gay or that your kink is getting yelled at by your daddy dressed as a drill sargeant.
jvlpdillon on
Nobody ever had to defend Mr Rogers for being quoted out of context.
ImraelBlutz on
Tbh when I was in basic in 2012 they did all this minus putting hands on. But I’m pretty sure that’s because it’s proven to be ineffective.
Shit – I was scared of my drill sergeants because they were machines. My Platoon drill was a sniper, would go on our morning PT runs doing like 6 minute miles smelling of Jack Daniel’s and hate. But he also was a good leader, and appropriately taught us what the basic warrior tasks were. Leaders don’t have to use physical violence; they instill respect and discipline through walking the walk and training.
OrangeCone2011 on
These guys all think the world has gotten worse because people pushed back against white people being assholes. Fuck Pete Hegseth, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Stephen Miller, and fuck MAGA.
00notmyrealname00 on
He either doesn’t know, or doesn’t care, why the US is such a strong fighting force. It ain’t how tough our troops are, or how mean they can be. I’ve said it a thousand times, and I’ll say it again right here:
#Battles are won by logistics. Supply your troops with the right equipment and get to objectives before the ‘bad guys’ and you’ll have a greater tactical advantage than any mean-spirited group of Meatheads you could face. Period.#
ehg2012 on
You thought recruiting numbers were down before, just wait until they start implementing this. Gonna be close to nonexistent. And retentions gonna nose dive too
whereegosdare84 on
These fucksticks are still selling some 80’s machismo version of war as if that’s modern combat.
Meanwhile call any MAGA supporter a snowflake and watch them all run to their safe spaces and cry
Coldkiller17 on
Not only that people are going to get raped and abused even more. The Air Force had a big problem with this around 2011 but they cracked down on that. The power dynamic is needed but when you are subject to the abuse and cannot do anything about it then people get abused far past what is acceptable.
Puzzleheaded-Wing-50 on
I’m sick and tired of being lectured on manliness and warrior mentality by a guy who can’t even do a pull up. And no, pulling up to the bar and ordering a beer or six doesn’t count.
LordCrawleysPeehole on
This guy really doesn’t understand what makes someone tough.
darthmahel on
Well, I think he should do everything himself and be beaten as he says the recruits should be. Treat him as bad as the people he wants to use as suicidal troopers to be used against American citizens and pawns on the bored.
Once the horrors start emerging, this will be deleted as best they can and they’ll claim its all ai. As these war mongering rats always do.
SunshotDestiny on
When I was going through basic training for the navy, an incident that proves this guy doesn’t know what he is talking about occurred. A recruit was in his rack due to medical for some reason that somehow his petty officers didn’t know about. They did toss his rack, dragged the mattress and him to the ship’s bell, and apparently rang it next to his ears until they were bleeding.
The petty officers got dishonorable discharges, apparently the senior chief either okayed or chose to not intervene so he lost his anchor. Not sure what happened to the recruit, but I think he got discharged with medical. I know of the incident because we had our senior chief moved, but I don’t know if the incident was reported officially to getting in the news.
Hegseth basically would have been ok with this sort of shit, and for what? Macho points?
FreeBricks4Nazis on
I was never a drill sergeant or drill instructor, but I was an officer at an new accession training command, and I worked with Drill Instructors.
Despite what the first half hour of Full Metal Jacket would have you believe, there’s more to the job than verbally and physically abusing recruits. DIs get a ton of training and are (for the most part) incredible professionals. They don’t *need* to put hands on a recruit. There are so many other effective ways to induce stress and instill discipline.
rainbowkittensrprz on
awesome I didn’t think I could be more worried about my brother joining the military
Waveali on
Put their hands on the recruits. Yeah, that should go over really well come rifle qualification time. As a vet, I hate to say this, but it’s probably a good idea to hold off on military service for three years until these human vermin are gone.
MRAGGGAN on
“We aren’t training defenders! We are training WARRIORS!”
> “I [state your full name], Do
solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will support and **defend
the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic;** that I
will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; and
that I will obey the orders of
the President of the United
States and the orders of the
officers appointed over me,
according to regulations and
the Uniform Code of Military
Justice. So help me God
(optional).”
Emphasis mine.
DEFEND. THE. CONSTITUTION.
RoguesAngel on
Secretary of War Crimes is his proper title.
kisspapaya on
A kid who has spent 3 months playing CoD or CS has more military discipline than this chode.
zapdoszaperson on
Its practically a slogan for the administration at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see “People are going to die. Trump 2028” T-shirts.
Hamonwrysangwich on
I’m going to ask a serious question: isn’t the military basically just a huge logistics operation? How much actual killing and warring is involved?
davisdilf on
Such a load of macho bullshit.
QuietCakehorn on
They will drive recruitment down and then they will force Mandatory Service for 2 years. This way they can start weeding out dissenters early.
FarwindKeeper on
No doubt about it, they intend to draft people. Make it a crime to desert or not show up for being drafted. Of course the punishment will be forced enlistment.
Oh and of course non of that pansy care for veterans who are clearly traumatized. Just put them down like dogs when they lash out in public.
If people are too traumatized they can’t fight back, right?
Barl0we on
Motherfucker saw Starship Troopers and thought the boot camp section of that movie was meant to be aspirational 🤪
gorkt on
This is basically the surest way I can think of to drive down recruitment.
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As if the military environment weren’t toxic enough already…
“Warfighter” “Warfighters” “Warfighting”
He’s awfully fucking proud of his new cool saying isn’t he.
Also, didn’t I hear something about no more wars? What the fuck is going on?
The military has a record of recruits (mostly women) going missing or being found dead. The military is a mess internally and this will only make things worse.
Fort Leonard Wood had a trainee suicide within the last month. Just wait until drill sergeants start hitting kids again and treating them even more shitty. Hegseth cosplays as a tough guy with no regard for the norms that have worked just fine to train our military.
The people who promote war the most are the people who never have to fight in one.
Seriously. Is he even looking at the highly decorated military leaders in the room he’s speaking down to? These men serve our country and he’s a talking like a guy who got motivation lessons from Starship Troopers.
On top of that they are trying to force black soldiers out with their new stricter facial hair policy. Look up pseudofolliculitis barbae if you don’t believe me.
And when the horror stories start spreading on social media, recruitment nosedives even more, and they start talking about reinstituting the draft …
What the fuck is a shark attack in this context?
Colonel Jessup, did you order the Code Red?
Yeah we should definitely train our recruits like Russia does, it’s worked out so well for them…
lmfoooooo recruitment is way down, how do we fix it Pete? “Publicly, loudly state we’re going back to treating the noobs like fucking SHIT!”
brilliance on display from the White House, as usual
It seems US is getting their new generation of of Private Pyle’s and similar incidents.
I’m pretty sure a lot of the USA problems would be lessened if the men in power at the moment got together to suck each other’s d*cks as it is pretty obvious that they’re eager to do so.
Drinky Pete has one fingernail still hanging on to the doorframe of the closet. Dude it’s okay to come out, no one cares that you’re gay or that your kink is getting yelled at by your daddy dressed as a drill sargeant.
Nobody ever had to defend Mr Rogers for being quoted out of context.
Tbh when I was in basic in 2012 they did all this minus putting hands on. But I’m pretty sure that’s because it’s proven to be ineffective.
Shit – I was scared of my drill sergeants because they were machines. My Platoon drill was a sniper, would go on our morning PT runs doing like 6 minute miles smelling of Jack Daniel’s and hate. But he also was a good leader, and appropriately taught us what the basic warrior tasks were. Leaders don’t have to use physical violence; they instill respect and discipline through walking the walk and training.
These guys all think the world has gotten worse because people pushed back against white people being assholes. Fuck Pete Hegseth, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Stephen Miller, and fuck MAGA.
He either doesn’t know, or doesn’t care, why the US is such a strong fighting force. It ain’t how tough our troops are, or how mean they can be. I’ve said it a thousand times, and I’ll say it again right here:
#Battles are won by logistics. Supply your troops with the right equipment and get to objectives before the ‘bad guys’ and you’ll have a greater tactical advantage than any mean-spirited group of Meatheads you could face. Period.#
You thought recruiting numbers were down before, just wait until they start implementing this. Gonna be close to nonexistent. And retentions gonna nose dive too
These fucksticks are still selling some 80’s machismo version of war as if that’s modern combat.
Meanwhile call any MAGA supporter a snowflake and watch them all run to their safe spaces and cry
Not only that people are going to get raped and abused even more. The Air Force had a big problem with this around 2011 but they cracked down on that. The power dynamic is needed but when you are subject to the abuse and cannot do anything about it then people get abused far past what is acceptable.
I’m sick and tired of being lectured on manliness and warrior mentality by a guy who can’t even do a pull up. And no, pulling up to the bar and ordering a beer or six doesn’t count.
This guy really doesn’t understand what makes someone tough.
Well, I think he should do everything himself and be beaten as he says the recruits should be. Treat him as bad as the people he wants to use as suicidal troopers to be used against American citizens and pawns on the bored.
Once the horrors start emerging, this will be deleted as best they can and they’ll claim its all ai. As these war mongering rats always do.
When I was going through basic training for the navy, an incident that proves this guy doesn’t know what he is talking about occurred. A recruit was in his rack due to medical for some reason that somehow his petty officers didn’t know about. They did toss his rack, dragged the mattress and him to the ship’s bell, and apparently rang it next to his ears until they were bleeding.
The petty officers got dishonorable discharges, apparently the senior chief either okayed or chose to not intervene so he lost his anchor. Not sure what happened to the recruit, but I think he got discharged with medical. I know of the incident because we had our senior chief moved, but I don’t know if the incident was reported officially to getting in the news.
Hegseth basically would have been ok with this sort of shit, and for what? Macho points?
I was never a drill sergeant or drill instructor, but I was an officer at an new accession training command, and I worked with Drill Instructors.
Despite what the first half hour of Full Metal Jacket would have you believe, there’s more to the job than verbally and physically abusing recruits. DIs get a ton of training and are (for the most part) incredible professionals. They don’t *need* to put hands on a recruit. There are so many other effective ways to induce stress and instill discipline.
awesome I didn’t think I could be more worried about my brother joining the military
Put their hands on the recruits. Yeah, that should go over really well come rifle qualification time. As a vet, I hate to say this, but it’s probably a good idea to hold off on military service for three years until these human vermin are gone.
“We aren’t training defenders! We are training WARRIORS!”
> “I [state your full name], Do
solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will support and **defend
the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic;** that I
will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; and
that I will obey the orders of
the President of the United
States and the orders of the
officers appointed over me,
according to regulations and
the Uniform Code of Military
Justice. So help me God
(optional).”
Emphasis mine.
DEFEND. THE. CONSTITUTION.
Secretary of War Crimes is his proper title.
A kid who has spent 3 months playing CoD or CS has more military discipline than this chode.
Its practically a slogan for the administration at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see “People are going to die. Trump 2028” T-shirts.
I’m going to ask a serious question: isn’t the military basically just a huge logistics operation? How much actual killing and warring is involved?
Such a load of macho bullshit.
They will drive recruitment down and then they will force Mandatory Service for 2 years. This way they can start weeding out dissenters early.
No doubt about it, they intend to draft people. Make it a crime to desert or not show up for being drafted. Of course the punishment will be forced enlistment.
Oh and of course non of that pansy care for veterans who are clearly traumatized. Just put them down like dogs when they lash out in public.
If people are too traumatized they can’t fight back, right?
Motherfucker saw Starship Troopers and thought the boot camp section of that movie was meant to be aspirational 🤪
This is basically the surest way I can think of to drive down recruitment.