I joined in the 80's and the American public felt that the US could no longer win wars. That nobody could wars (except Russia, they could walk through walls and do magic apparently. Fucking CIA cock suckers) against peasants armed with knockoff Chinese SKSs. I chose a job that would make sure I died in the first wave or the first nuclear blasts (It was an 80's thing, you had to be an adult at the time to understand it) but at least I'd do my part in locking our jaws around Ivan's throat. I did a dirty, nasty, dangerous job. For those in the know, it was Ordnance with OJT EOD and OJT NBC. Bad tools, bad equipment, shitty leadership (Half Nam vets half retards all faggotry, like every military ever) and shitty places.
Everyone knew we were losers. We weren't as good as The Nam guys (holy shit did I learn to hate people who went to Vietnam over the course of my life. The most self-pitying but entitled fucking assholes on the goddamn planet) no matter what and if we were what America was fielding, then America was doomed.
Everyone made fun of us.
Our equipment was for losers. The Bradley was junk (watch that fucking Pentagon Wars for your daily dose of propaganda), the Apache would be shot down by pellet guns, the Crashhawk landed on school buses (well, that was deserved), the Shit Hook would fall out of the sky for lulz. The Abrams couldn't beat the T series unless it was 5 to 1 odds even then we'd lose 3 of them. This was honestly the kind of shit we were being told. Ivan could turn invisible, walk through walls, knew super-karate, and could throw a tomahawk while doing a backflip (actual video).
Then Grenada happened. The reality and what you read on Wikipedia are two different things. Just ask yourself one question: What was going on on that island that had them cancel the Beirut Barracks retaliation THAT WAS IN PROCESS and then let Stormin' Norman say "FEED ME BRIGADES UNTIL I SAY STOP!" and the Joint Chiefs, the President, and the DoD go "YES!" Take a good look at some of the units and wht the specialties of the scientists that were bagged and tagged were.
While it happened actors and shit were screeching that it was going to be another Vietnam. On an island the size of like Manhattan or some shit. Get used to this. THis would be screamed every time the military just went to NTC.
But the biggest thing was: America roflstomped them even with the problems. (Grenada led to MASSIVE reforms when we discovered our radios wouldn't even let us talk to each other!)
That led to Hollywood making it seem like nothing actually happened in Grenada. Because, you see, you weren't allowed to be impressed. (Our managed decline was started in the 1960's with the fucking hippies and their stupid fucking CIA back musical faggots)
Then Nicaraqua. The press spent more times on the Marines that got dropped in the mud than what happened. Hell, that's damn near been erased.
Again, out came the pundits: IT'S ANOTHER VIETNAM! THE US MILITARY CAN'T BEAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING BEANERS IN THE JUNGLE!
Then it was over.
Welp, time to sweep that shit under the rug!
Then some shit in Africa. Nothing major. (Now, at the time Special Forces was being used properly, not as bonus super-powered infantry faggotry they do now. Trump uses them right. Biden, Obama, and Bush used them wrong)
Then Panama. There was some shit, mainly around the Delta bunkers near the Canal, but for the most part, we got in there and then we had clear cut IT'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER VIETNAM goddamn it. Anyway, we went in, we dominated, and we left.
A little thing to mention, like a week prior the Panamanian Army was literally training US forces in Air Assault, Airborne, LRRPS, Jungle Warfare, Jungle Survival, Sniper School, Marine Recon, Navy SEAL work. We had to go against someone who knew all our doctrine and had IT"S GOING TO BE ANOTHER VIETNAM goddamn it! Anyway...
Then some more bullshit here and there. So far, all everyone's seen is air assault and airborne and straight ass infantry and SOCOM work that just rolls the fucking dough on these assholes. (Of course, you have to understand the training tempo back then. Even as a REMF you went to NTC at least once a year and ARTEP and PREARTEP and then at least 1 more 30 day training and 2-4 2 week ones, not to mention piggybacking with other units to do all kinds of wild shit because then you have REMF units that can take IT'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER VIETNAM! holy shit shut up care of themselves)
Some more shit in Africa. A little bit in South America. The press didn't report on it, because we were doing fast and sharp shit.
Then the Wall went down. Well, convoy duty moving fuel and food and shit like that that you don't read about much.
Then the Soviet Union went to shit and they had their gay revolution and some tanks rolled up on our embassy and live on CNN/AFN they got fucking popped by the Marines armed with fucking AT4 rockets and their two gay little choppers got shot the fuck down, so they went away to have their faggy little IT'S GOING TO TURN INTO ANOTHER VIETNAM IF WE KEEP LETTING THE EMBASSY DEFEND ITSELF! slap fight with each other and leave us the fuck alone.
Then came the next one. You all remember this.
Desert Shield.
Iraq invades Kuwait for whatever fucking reason (slant drilling, gay porn, what the fuck ever), and it's time to get our murder on. Now, the bit with the incubators, there were people I considered credible talking about having seen the hospitals after the war, and I do know that MI went through and confiscated a lot of cameras and shit.
So we had the buildup to
GODDAMN IT!
Anyway, the day comes and everyone KNOWS we are going to lose.
105 hours later everything's a smoking crater and we're yelling that we can finish this shit because they stopped up in sight of fucking Bagdad.
HOLY SHIT! FLAWLESS US WIN!
I was in the hospital and it wasn't sad and depressed. We were fucking cheering while waiting. We'd fucking won when EVERYONE said we couldn't.
We felt pride in ourselves. In our military. In each other. In our country.
Now, you have people "outdated tanks" "outdated tactics"...
...Take your cowardly ass bullshit and hit the bricks, faggot. Stop acting like obsolete shit doesn't kill.
And we honestly didn't know how good our shit was. And had bad their shit was. When we rolled across the border
GODDAMN IT!
We killed everything in sight.
Holy shit, America is suddenly proud of itself. Proud of its military. Proud of their country.
But that CANNOT be allowed.
So you have Clinton's debacles, where the RoE and the planning were all yanked around.
Know what Reagan or Bush would have done to the Somalis? Fucking left them in a crater for DARING to fucking kill US troops.
Then they just let everyone fuck with our embassies. Kill our troops. Do what they fucking want.
Because they don't want you proud of your nation.
They don't want you to be confident and proud of your military.
Because then you might start believing in borders and maybe that tossing out motherfuckers and fixing your country.
Instead...
