>You’re a cunt.
>Which period did your soldiers look the coolest?
For me, it’s the 18th century.
You’re a cunt
Thomas Miller
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Luke Davis
Luke Reyes
>hurr I like rags
Robert James
>minutemen
>not the Grenada aesthetic
Noah Harris
i think the period between vietnam and iraq was probably one of the best times to be in the us military
Kevin Fisher
Not in 1973 to 80 it sure wasn't.
Juan Butler
why is that?
Joseph Clark
Oh, I dunno. Try all the low morale, thugs/criminals being recruited, scanty budgets, racial tension, soldiers doing and selling drugs on base, etc, etc.
Jonathan Ortiz
what happened in 1980 to change that?
Tyler Rogers
Reagan reformed the US military along with some generals like Colin Powell who had been junior officers in Vietnam and had new, better ideas to run things than the previous generation. Budgets were increased, training standards and professionalism hugely improved, and old relics from WWII like the K-Ration and the Jeep were retired and replaced by more modern stuff. Drug testing was implemented and alcohol was no longer glamorized.
But the 70s was absolutely the pits and the military especially the Army was a barely functional wreck back then. It was very hard to get volunteers after Vietnam and only the lowest scum were willing to enlist. Even more terrible experiments like the "The Army Wants To Join You" campaign were tried which including painting barracks in pastel colors and having soldiers make command decisions communally instead of obeying orders from their higher ups. Of course it failed because you can't have a feminized, homosexualized military. A lot of equipment was outdated since the US military outside of Indochina had been neglected for years and were expected to face the Warsaw Pact with 1950s gear.
Wyatt Williams
thanks for explaining. people talk about vietnam a lot but i've never read much about what happened to the military afterwards
John Bennett
Jimmy Carter revived draft registration and even considered bringing the draft itself back with the Army's poor state of readiness.
Wyatt Barnes
mid-late 1800s, except it was only 1 guy, and he wasn't a soldier, he was a bushranger (australian version of a highwayman/outlaw)
Ian Mitchell
Fucking paddys
Hunter Ward
>and old relics from WWII like the K-Ration and the Jeep were retired and replaced by more modern stuff. Drug testing was implemented and alcohol was no longer glamorized
Reagan also retired the relic known as Hyman Rickover. An episode in July 1981 where Rickover personally commanded a crash dive test of the USS La Jolla and almost got the submarine destroyed by ordering it to stay for several minutes past its designed depth level was used as an excuse to fire him because people couldn't seem to figure out why an 81 year old man was conducting crash dive tests of submarines.
Brody Jackson
American soldiers look retarded now, want to know why? Because they have air support and armored infantry that they need to fight people literally wearing rags. Fucking pathetic muttmerica
Jayden Bell
WW2
Alexander Sullivan
Not much to choose from, hm?
Anthony Evans
WWI
Brandon Foster
>get conscripted and shot on some beach by Turks 9000 miles from home
GJGE.
Anthony Howard
F
Leo Bailey
>t*rks still end up with more casualties despite their homeground advantage and our incompetent pommy leadership
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William Campbell
forgot pic
Joseph Nguyen
there was never conscription for anything except home defence except for a little bit in vietnam
Jaxon Perez
We were just a colony until after WWI. Then a sense of an Australian state was born
James Moore
Samuel Cruz
>tfw your best soldiers in history were a bunch of unwashed peasants fighting with agricultural tool
Andrew Wood
samurai of 16th or 17th century.
Kevin Brown
WW1 probably. WW2 had average uniforms in North Africa and shit ones in Singapore and Kokoda.
We weren't a country when wars had good looking uniforms
Thomas James
>get conscripted
That's one of the big things about Gallipoli, people still thought they were British back then and rushed to enlist. There wansnt any need for conscription since so many males enlisted.
It was when they all got fucked up fighting for the British who didn't really give a shit about them that Australians actually started to form their own national identity.
Adrian Ramirez
Victorian Era