US Military Opinion

[JuIcY]

After talking to a few close friends in the military; Marines and Navy, Ive been sitting in my chair and thinking... do you think the US roster for military service is less experienced and motivated (by moral ambition) than what it used to be when the US entered world war II? for the blatant and bold forum nubs, Do you think the US military has the capacity on a per soldier level to handle the stress of Afghanistan?

 

Just a question of curiosity

Edited January 29, 2010 by JuIcY

[Lt. Awesome]

I'm actually not sure, in world war 2, you really could shoot any enemy you see.

But, with what I heard, you have to have permission/proof to shoot someone in iraq, aswell as you don't know which person in the crowd is an enemy oor civilian, they wear the same things

 

 

So no

Edited January 29, 2010 by Lt. Awesome

[FukLife]

I say "shot anyone that looks suspicious in irag!

[CantBeFaded]

kill em all and let god sort em out

[Weeman]

I'm actually not sure, in world war 2, you really could shoot any enemy you see.

But, with what I heard, you have to have permission/proof to shoot someone in iraq, aswell as you don't know which person in the crowd is an enemy oor civilian, they wear the same things

 

 

So no

 

QFT

 

WWII there could have been a lot of court marshals and war crimes if the dirty little skeletons of your grandparents came out, even for our side. most killed indiscriminately (just not brought to light of court).

 

 

but nowadays we already have bad press so its a shoot on after you've been shot at basis and it pisses me off cause i have a few friends over there too.

[vandium]

All (most) motivations are based on energy and spreading America's control.

 

To be honest, our motivation in Haiti is not really based around helping them.

It is based on controlling the situation so that we don't have one of the largest terrorist breeding grounds just south of our border. But at the same time create the appearance that we are saviors.

(sound familar?)

 

The plan to invade the middle east was not a matter of winning and losing the "war on terror". There is no way to win this "war" we are in. We MUST have a presence in the middle east, and in the eastern hemisphere in general. People are always going to hate us, and try to attack us and destablize our economy and government.

 

As you see with Iraq. The plan was for American forces to leave by 2011 (iraq enforced). Well now we have found a way to just manipulate those troops to Afghanistan, for an additional 10+ years. There is no way to fix these countries that live hundreds and thousands of years in the past. The only thing we can do is say we are there to fix it, so we can keep a large military presence in the Eastern hemisphere.

 

Which is really somthing that has to be done. Iraq was the easiest way in, and Afghanistan is the easiest way to stay in. The plan was never created to get in and out. I think we truly understood that we would further destablize the surrounding countries, so that we could "help" them stablize.

 

But of course, this is done by training and resources that we have/will supply.

This is also training for us, because it is real life war training. We are learning a lot from these "wars".

 

It had to be done, times are changing, and changing fast. Sucks....but all this drama we had had these past years are required to prevent a total catastrophe in the future.

 

(These statements are based on personal observations and math.)

[Guest The_Monkey]

(These statements are based on personal observations and math.)

 

I see what you did there...

[Dr.jiggles]

Its de3finetly harder and more stressing since they cant just blow/shoot everything that they see, also they are carrying much heavier and much more difficult to work with equipment.

[vandium]

I see what you did there...

 

No you don't!

[JuIcY]

Good post vandium, that makes sense to me.

[jalepeno]

back in world war 2 our military was supported by civilians back in the states to an extent of every business completely devoted their efforts to the war. today more often than not american citizens would more like to have our soldiers back at home rather than fighting a war. so yea in ww2 american soldiers were more motivated to fight because people cared.