Worked as a civilian (GS) for the army for 30 year. This is pretty much SOP.
Everyone talks about honoring soldiers, but in every conflict they are used and discarded, like a used tissue. They come back with life long illness and are just abandoned.
It’s despicable, but is not new. No administration wants to pay the full bill for their wars.
Accurate. We "have no idea what gulf war syndrome is".
Havana syndrome? Eh it's not worth looking into.
"PTSD? Sounds like pussy syndrome to me."
They don't give a fuck about soldiers beyond the "respect". Very few of my coworkers know that I'm a veteran. I don't want questions that they want to ask, and I definitely don't want some conservative mfer to thank me for my service. I seriously hate that shit. I didn't do anything that makes you more safe.
They acknowledge that people go places and do stuff that "messes them up" but refuse to even attempt understanding mental health. "My cousin came back crazy, he won't talk about what they did to him" without realizing that "they" is the system of continuous wars for wartime experience and the military industrial complex's profits, despite them engineering for a war that doesn't exist.
You hit the nail on the head really. I lived with an old UK Marine for two years up until recently and I 100% agree that no-one came back the same but also none of them are really able to adapt back to civilian life because, as you say, they are discarded by the system rather than been given the help they need.
God, I hate the “Thank you for your service” bullshit. I get it all the time and I wasn’t even enlisted. Especially from the conservatives, who thank you, then vote to cut benefits. It’s like fingers down a chalk board.
Literally a made up thing, no medical organization says it's real. PTSD is. But not something made up by people hungover and claiming it's a secret weapon.
a decades long torrent of US taxpayer money will flow to every Trump affiliated contractor imaginable to rebuild all that infrastructure and lost equipment. And a tiny trickle will flow toward treating the wounded. But we'll be paying for this for a long, long time.
Good thing ramen is delicious. How do you guys like to doctor your ramen cheaply? I know about the red pepper packets from pizza places.
This right here, I am trying to feed ten in my home and I can easily spend $2,000 a month if I am not careful. Needless to say I can afford about $0 right now with mortgage and bills. Looks like we will be eating ramen.
Thank you. I love my family and I wish I made like $80 an hour. We all have to live within our means, it is just inflation has made everything so much more more expensive. I also didn't buy a home until three years ago so I am late to the game with a 6% mortgage.
I can totally see why some people struggle and even fail through no fault of their own. If I came down with something awful like cancer it would probably cost my family everything. That is what I think is wrong.
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bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 122 pts · 69d
Worked as a civilian (GS) for the army for 30 year. This is pretty much SOP.
Everyone talks about honoring soldiers, but in every conflict they are used and discarded, like a used tissue. They come back with life long illness and are just abandoned.
It’s despicable, but is not new. No administration wants to pay the full bill for their wars.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 69d
Accurate. We "have no idea what gulf war syndrome is".
Havana syndrome? Eh it's not worth looking into.
"PTSD? Sounds like pussy syndrome to me."
They don't give a fuck about soldiers beyond the "respect". Very few of my coworkers know that I'm a veteran. I don't want questions that they want to ask, and I definitely don't want some conservative mfer to thank me for my service. I seriously hate that shit. I didn't do anything that makes you more safe.
They acknowledge that people go places and do stuff that "messes them up" but refuse to even attempt understanding mental health. "My cousin came back crazy, he won't talk about what they did to him" without realizing that "they" is the system of continuous wars for wartime experience and the military industrial complex's profits, despite them engineering for a war that doesn't exist.
ewo@piefed.ca · 27 pts · 69d
You hit the nail on the head really. I lived with an old UK Marine for two years up until recently and I 100% agree that no-one came back the same but also none of them are really able to adapt back to civilian life because, as you say, they are discarded by the system rather than been given the help they need.
It is quite saddening to see.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 21 pts · 68d
God, I hate the “Thank you for your service” bullshit. I get it all the time and I wasn’t even enlisted. Especially from the conservatives, who thank you, then vote to cut benefits. It’s like fingers down a chalk board.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 68d
i found out that the term is performative politics.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 68d
This is why I hate it. They aren't sincere and it shows, it even comes across in their tone and body language.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 69d
That's reserved for CIA operatives willing and able to convert the guilt of their actions into projection of an imagined enemy.
::: spoiler but also: It's just Cicadas. :::
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 68d
Havana syndrome, spies and diplomats getting drunk on the job and claiming it's a new weapon by Cuba that no one has proof to.
I recently got called a Russian spy because I linked wikipedia saying it didn't exist.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 68d
Hangover + cicadas = nefarious communist plot and wunderwaffe
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 68d
Those communists are so stupid but also so smart to invent new weapons and diseases beyond all scientific understanding.
The enemy is weak and strong.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 68d
Literally a made up thing, no medical organization says it's real. PTSD is. But not something made up by people hungover and claiming it's a secret weapon.
village604@adultswim.fan · 15 pts · 69d
Only 18% of vets get the full benefits they're entitled to. And that statistic was pre-Trump2
dan1101@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 69d
This seems entirely plausible, there is no accountability in this administration.
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 69d
On brand for Plastered Pete or should I say Hogwash Hegseth.
fonix232@fedia.io · 27 pts · 69d
Kegsbreath
Etterra@discuss.online · 9 pts · 69d
And all this time I've just been calling him "Drunk Pete." "Kegsbreath" is fantastic.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 68d
Keg Petesbreath
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 69d
You mean Pentagon Pete, the Piss Poor Peruser of Alcohol and Pedophile Protector?
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 69d
The “pilot rescue”…I haven’t seen any pilots, but I saw a lot of blown up wreckage…
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 68d
There are no winners or losers in war, there are the dead and people who have to live with it.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 68d
Wrong. The winners are the investors and people who own the companies manufacturing the weapons and selling them to both sides.
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 68d
Nah, there's 'suckers and losers', and the people who get away with bossing them around.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 69d
Not Pentagon Pete, the Paragon of Truth!?
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 68d
Secretary Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 69d
He's got 10 shades of eyeliner and lipstick to dress this pig up with.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 68d
he dedicated a whole pentagon room into a MAKEUP ROOM.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev · 6 pts · 68d
Soldiers are just numbers. Numbers are part of statistics, not of human emotions
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 68d
they are just cannon fodder for the military
kreskin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 68d
a decades long torrent of US taxpayer money will flow to every Trump affiliated contractor imaginable to rebuild all that infrastructure and lost equipment. And a tiny trickle will flow toward treating the wounded. But we'll be paying for this for a long, long time.
Good thing ramen is delicious. How do you guys like to doctor your ramen cheaply? I know about the red pepper packets from pizza places.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d
This right here, I am trying to feed ten in my home and I can easily spend $2,000 a month if I am not careful. Needless to say I can afford about $0 right now with mortgage and bills. Looks like we will be eating ramen.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d
Ten is a lot. That must be stressful, I feel for you.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d
Thank you. I love my family and I wish I made like $80 an hour. We all have to live within our means, it is just inflation has made everything so much more more expensive. I also didn't buy a home until three years ago so I am late to the game with a 6% mortgage.
I can totally see why some people struggle and even fail through no fault of their own. If I came down with something awful like cancer it would probably cost my family everything. That is what I think is wrong.
andxz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 68d
No, really? Who would've thought.
Captain Woke couldn't fight a war with a stoned flock of seagulls.