I don't know why I feel like I am in the twilight zone here. Back in my day, if you didn't have a high tech afsc it's because you weren't smart enough to do anything else except pull guard duty. Infantry was something you did if you couldn't walk and chew gum. Vietnam was someplace those guys went because they couldn't get into college, and, there was no shame in not going. The military wasn't something to strive to get into, it was something to try and get out of.

A lot of that is because our special military operation in Vietnam was a conflict a lot of people here felt we had no business being in. I remember how hesitant we were to even get involved in middle eastern affairs before the gulf war. We had serious doubts as to the validity of going over there to fight for oil. At least 31 years ago. Panama, wtf are we even doing?

Anyone remember Chaz/Chop? You know, where those larper dudes got all dressed up in their pink frillies and ended up blasting those kids in the car?  How people said they were sorry for those kids being dead but, muh revolution? Where's the protests? Our own government's lame assed response to the billions of dollars in destruction? Oh yeah, stand back and stand by.

The biggest mistake here is in believing that any of these people is larping. The problem is not that they're larping; it's that they're not. You think guys putting on flowered shirts and going to lobby day came out to larp, all 50,000 of them? And VetBro stuff, and cancel culture, and cross dressing dudes, and furries waiting in the wings for a chance at your kids. Please extract your cranium from your rectum. People went, and people died violently, by gunfire.

The ones who didn't show up, were the defunded and emasculated cops, and/or the disarmed Natl Guard. Yeah, bro, just trust the police, bro, or the national guard, bro, and , trust the media won't lie about it bro, and, the government won't lie about it either, bro. But your job is gone, your business is burned, the media says it's peaceful, and you can go to the riot, just not to church, and not to the bar. Your kids can't go to school, but, they can go to drag queen story hour, and those people in the animal suits, probably can't wait to yif on your kids, just like disney.

But it's all good bro, cause we gotta fight the rooskie bro, just not when they're here, burning down our stuff.  

I had one day of combat in 1988, in the Navy - I am as "tactical" as a donut.

TL; DR: Government is an incompetent liar, & a joke, & the joke is on you if you still believe.

Waiting for 400 page book + movie telling us all about it.



Everyone else has the right to have an opinion about his opinion.

This,  civilians who pay for training are motivated.  They practice to keep up on the training they paid for.  


A civilian is most likely to encounter another civilian, who probably had no training.  The encounter is always unplanned and the good guy has to figure out how to eliminate the threat without injury to innocent bystander

I look back at the men that raised me (All WW2 Vets) and I know easily why we won the wars. None of them were on the path to join the Armed Services before the wars began. They went in out of love of country and a pure sense of duty.

This thread was designed to increase the OP’s post count.

What if I never served, but I got my multicam hat with the IR flag patch both in Baghdad?  Or if even though I never served a bunch of the stuff hanging on my AR was attached to the rifle I carried in Iraq?

How does that fit?

I hope well, so it doesn't fall off the rifle.

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3/3.

Were you a Corpsman?

My son was a Corpsman with 2/8

Nope

You think that is funny?

You just increased yours by this dumb post.

Meyer was cooler before he went to Afghanistan

Ah shit does this mean I have to throw away my nightvision, chest carriers, suppressors, guns and helmets?

To close with and destroy the enemy by fire or maneuver……

Or something like that.

Meyer is correct.  If you have never seen the elephant, you are a LARPer.  No different than the person that never played football screaming about what the Quarterback/Coach should have done and how the team would have won if he was Quarterback.

News flash.  We did not start winning the Revolutionary War until we adopted European tactics/formations/training.  Say thanks to Kazimierz Pulaski, Baron von Steuben, and Marquis Lafayette to name a few.  The revolution was won by a few frontier sharpshooters is a myth.

I know enough to be tacticsl regardless of what I'm wearing friendo

So people that served for 20 years without a combat deployment are LARPers?

Dark humor is a thing. It is kinda funny.

No, just the ones that never went to the zoo.

Hasn't  yet.  The hat flew off my head once whole riding a motorcycle.   I executed a tactical  u-turn and picked it up.

Yep.

He’s trying to monetize his service and heroics and stay relevant.

Him and the seal that shot Osama.

Just because they’re heroes in one regard, doesn’t mean their opinion is any more or less valid

Plenty of “LARPers” stacking bodies in Ukraine right now. Fuck that guy.

I can help you dispose of them.

Does Minot have a zoo? I would hate to think that for decades we had LARPers sitting in planes with hot nukes.

First, I do not know what being “tactical” means, but I wonder if he thinks the Taliban or the Viet Cong qualified as tactical?  Or were they playing dress up also.  It appears to me that based on his view on this point he may think the greatest tactical military to ever exist have been giving up countries to men playing dress up.

Sounds very Black Rifle Coffee Vet Bro
I bet he doesn't support non vet citizens owning evil guns either.

+1

Where does this put people that will not shut up about their high school football career when they are 40+ and haven't touched a ball since they were 18?

So unless you've actually done it, you cant comment on it?

Guess GD is done talking about politics and abortions . . .

He was in a BRCC skit. I think he was also in that movie they made (Range 15?)

At least fucking fat chicks is still on the menu.

With all due respect to Dakota, I disagree.  Marine Corps vet, combat wounded in Desert Storm, blah blah, I've attended some of the finest training the military has to offer, and some of the best i've been to, are from folks that have never served.  While they didnt have "real world" experience to bring to the table, I did consider them experts in their particular area of knowledge, and have learned a lot from them.  I understand fundamentally what he is trying to say, but to dismiss certain folks because they've never served is a mistake.

Slow down with all the details. It’s hard to keep up.

Well... yeah.

He doesn't have any links.  You're The Great Internet Explorer that found a gem from the past no other has seen.

Plus a good helping of "show up here on this date, or we come looking to arrest you".

So if all you did was sit in a nuke silo but never actually launched a real missile you're just a LARPer?

It's gonna be real hard for REMF retiree to flex on a one term cook who spent a deployment serving up Yakisoba and potato wedges on a COP in RC-E.

Just want to make sure I have my LARP meter calibrated right. A 21 year old illegal Mexican roofer has more experience in penetrating national defenses and operating in a nonpermissive environment than a 18X that hasn't done a combat tour yet so in comparison until he deploys the SF guy is a LARPer right?

Yes.

Didn't really know much about him except for his winning the MOH. Because of this thread, I looked him up.
Honestly, he strikes me as the kind of person who's all "Muh service!" because his military service is the only worthwhile thing he's ever done.
Other than his time in the Marines, he seems like a bit of a boob.

I was a grunt. My GT was 123. I chose to be a grunt, much to the chagrin of my recruiters and their quotas.

Dakota never stopped being a boot fuck during our 07-08 deployment and nothing changed when he left for the ETT.

@armoredman Tanker Wars?