introvertedobserver
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- Jun 12, 2020
Re-read - humanitarian mission, not combat mission. We have many allies and territories we can leverage for that. No crisis happening? No problem, fall back to joint training. Something we regularly do anyways. Also I think you're off context - your last sentence is literally the situation we're talking about. Pulling an Eisenhower.Send them overseas to do what where? The U.S. isn't embroiled in any overseas conflict right now, and attempting to purposely do so would only destroy whatever support the government had left at this juncture. One of the reasons people support Ukraine is because the U.S. government isn't fighting the conflict itself. And you don't just federalize an entire state's national guard and send them overseas. The U.S. didn't do that during any of its past conflicts. They utilize rotating deployments from different states. An attempt to do that would only raise even more of a stink. Federalizing a state's national guard is a last resort, mostly to deal with issues within the state itself.
I haven't been out that long - your first paragraph is pretty BS. Not necessarily that they're doing more with less, but that there's no regard to work/life balance. There absolutely is. At least in my and my friends former units (about 2 dozen different units, going off of the people I'm still in regular contact with). That doesn't mean there are never late shifts or long field trainings, but doing so for prolonged periods of time needs higher-than-battalion level approval. There's a whole bureaucratic mess involved with it. Work day's still generally 6:30 (PT) then 9-5 give or take an hour. Shit, having a PT formation before 6:30 requires CG approval (for an indication of how high that shit has to go).You might not agree with what I'm saying, and you'll probably tell me it's wokery and Brandon or whatever, but that's the reality.
Your second paragraph is also completely bullshit. MHS Genesis has nothing to do with connecting with civilian insurance to get medical records with MEPS.. MHS Genesis is the new system for DHA-run healthcare facilities. It's not even fully implemented yet and MEPS doesn't even have access to it (yet).
Maybe you're thinking about PMRS which allows MEPS to get your prescription history for any prescriptions that require fed notification when proscribed (controlled substances) and have done since 2001? Or perhaps you're conflating it with the required HIPAA waiver that allows MEPS to pull your medical history if they so choose, which has been a thing for 20 years at this point.
It's also not that difficult to get a waiver for a lot of shit. Some things take longer than others. It has gotten harder since when they were real desperate in 2005. At that time they were waivering people that attempted fucking suicide during basic in other branches (had a guy in OSUT with that waiver, unsurprisingly he pulled a repeat after a month and got discharged). They were also waivering drug addicts. Had 3 different guys go out and get lit up on dope and crack and they got General Under Honorable discharges because their condition was pre-existing and waivered. Where as the guys who didn't have that waiver and popped dirty all got OTH. One guy got courts martialed and BC'd out, but he was all sorts of ate up. Got popped driving high as fuck and then went AWOL. When they brought him back he had to live at the CQ desk until his CM.
It's not all "wokery and Brandon", but that's a big fucking part of it. They (Democrats) are absolutely trying to get rid of and deter conservatives from joining to shift the ideological makeup of the troops. Jan 6 scared the shit out of them and made them start wondering how the troops in general would respond if an ideological conflict broke out. The outlook for them was...bleak to say the least since only about ~28% of those enlisted in the armed forces considered themselves Democrat aligned, while half considered themselves Republican aligned (Military Times, 201