Comments by "Joe Swanson" (@joeswanson733) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. in a bygone time people were so poor that one of the reasons you joined the military was ... 3 squares a day.... economic prosperity and military enlistment have a correlation one with another. if people have more opportunite in the private sector world enlistment drops because if you have easier options that pay similar money... take the easier options. also andrew tate is not wrong on profits that military make on behalf of companies. major general Smedley D. Butler author of war is a racket recipeint of 2 congressional of medal of honors... said in his time in the miliary ... they were basically mercanaries in uniform.
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  2. korea was already in doubt. vietnam was alread a very big red flag already.
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  3. if you just add in obesity / mental illnesses you will have a bunch of 4Fs.
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  4. i find this entire conflict weird as both sides do not have enough infantry a war of this size you'd think a country would send at least 500,000 soldiers and support assets/personnel.
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  5. that test is not easy.
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  6. the only way the military is worth staying in is if you make flag rank but .lol we know how tough it is to make flag rank in the military.
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  7.  @Blaking_Bad  a more older term for general officers or the admiralty (1-5 star generals)
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  8.  @Blaking_Bad  more like o7 to o11
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  9.  @Blaking_Bad  fleet admiral o11 is still on the books but ... obviously only is used ina WW2 scenario
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  10. nope even during WW2, korea, vietnam, WW1 ever since the selective service act began they allowed for medical waivers, educational waivers, primary breadwinner waiver etc. that's not going to chnge. also rich kids have joined the military in the past, they just go to ocs, become officers, or go to the service academies and become officers or join the air national guard. that's the route GW bush took. the easiest way to outfox the draft is to just break your foot, feign medical illness, psychological illness, or just leave the country. you're not going to outsmart the rich folks. they wrote the rules. just be glad they don't have the replacement system from teh civil war wher you can just pay for someone to take your place. $250.00 in 1860 dollars.
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  11. just to use a past campaign as a reference point. battle of okinawa took 3 months us military side =541,000 personnel (183,000-250,000 combat troops) japanese side 76,000 + 30,000 okinawan conscripts us military casualties 12,520 killed 38,000-55,162 wounded 221 tanks lost 12 destoyers sunk 115 amphibious ships sunk 9 other ships sunk 386 ships damaged 763 aircraft lost over a patch of land hat is only 463 sq miles.... now of course given circumstances time, tech etc this is the idea you can take from fighting a dug in opponent that is willing to do anything to defend theier land. ukraine is 233,031 sq miles... ukraine has 900,000 active military personnel plus 2 million reservists now that they've also mobilized civilians into emergency conscripts.... ok at a population of 44 million with a age group of 18-60 being around 27 million. but let's say you only factor in the men we're talking 13.5 million emergency conscripts. i think russians advances so far are impressive given their hurdles.
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  12. 1.) i thought the only thing stopping the top brass from basically straight out abusing the lower ranked enlistees was teh UCMJ? or is the UCMJ no longer even working? 2.)last i checked according to act of congress officers are gentlemen. so by default they're already a rung higher.
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  13. to be fair the amphibious landing crafts weren't supposed to deliver troops or material to the beach head until the beaches have been cleared... ok so the D-Day landings, Iwo jima, peleliu for example were not really textbook amphibious landings. these airlifting campaigns are gonna be pricey. anything that's air related is gonna cost a lot more than boat related.
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  14. cough you're still in the reserves and turns out they can still call you back even if you're in the inactive reserves.... O_O
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  15.  @geraldshields9035  you've been out long enough and during peace time. People are concerned about if we get into conflict with china those that have been out under 10 years could be called back if it's bad enough
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