Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "The Burn Pit Problem" video.

  1. The US failed to learn from past failures and will continue to fail because only the "exciting" technotactical stuff gets career-enhancing recognition. We're good at what we're good at but "choose to suck" at many tasks. Inaction is a choice. Military leadership failure is impressively common. Putting on a uniform doesn't work magic on the human inside. Document, document, document! Photograph burn pits if you see them on or off base as future evidence. A problem the naive public and much of the military don't quite understand is the military mind is so mission-focused it ignores everything else. This is normal not new. Buddy letters and all the rest of the documentation the Viet Nam vets had to come up with after that war are still a necessity. A heretical way to reduce waste is reduce the complexity and go full Spartan with no luxuries. Keeping it real all you need is clean water, MREs, field sanitation and shelter. Everything that is not mission-essential should be questioned. While Americans really like luxurious FOBs they forget how many logistics humans are maimed and killed bringing NON-ESSENTIAL items by road. I personally don't need a DFAC if my brother or sister dies trying to deliver consumables. The US desperately needs military reform but the military is (all complex systems inherently operate in degraded condition) too large and complex to fix even if the will existed which never has been the case. Nothing will change that matters so choose your service wisely. Your buddies may have your back. The system does not and never has.
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