Comments on YouTube involving United States Military.

[mdk]

You're just mad because you know they're right. American soldiers are garbage and blind patriotism is the cancer killing this country.

@Jorick

American Airmen, though, are fabulous.

[Dinh AaronMk]

I was told to witness this.

So I'm witnessing it.

@Darog the Badger God

You are awaited in Valhalla.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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American Airmen, though, are fabulous.

@mdk

Don't lie: you know they're trying to keep themselves entertained. Being restrained to an armchair is not as amazing as being "muh spaec muh-reene beech sturmenfuhrer git sum seempur fidelus".

[mdk]

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Don't lie: you know they're trying to keep themselves entertained. Being restrained to an armchair is not as amazing as being "muh spaec muh-reene beech sturmenfuhrer git sum seempur fidelus".

@Dinh AaronMk

True, but speaking from personal experience, there's no better feeling in the world than strapping 30,000 pounds of thrust on your back and pretending the clouds are star destroyers.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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True, but speaking from personal experience, there's no better feeling in the world than strapping 30,000 pounds of thrust on your back and pretending the clouds are star destroyers.

@mdk

In all seriousness I got a cousin who is a pilot in the AF currently. He flies shit on and off aircraft carriers and his chill as fuck. Unfortunately I ever really seem to see him when it comes to family gatherings.

[mdk]

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In all seriousness I got a cousin who is a pilot in the AF currently. He flies shit on and off aircraft carriers and his chill as fuck. Unfortunately I ever really seem to see him when it comes to family gatherings.

@Dinh AaronMk

Helicopters, surely? None of our planes (to my knowledge anyway) are built for tailhooks.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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Helicopters, surely? None of our planes (to my knowledge anyway) are built for tailhooks.

@mdk

I was told airplanes. So if the USAF doesn't have shit equipped for carriers then he may or may not actually be air force, but maybe some sort of Navy version. I will need to inquire further when I get the chance next.

[mdk]

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I was told airplanes. So if the USAF doesn't have shit equipped for carriers then he may or may not actually be air force, but maybe some sort of Navy version. I will need to inquire further when I get the chance next.

@Dinh AaronMk

Navy and Marines both have their own pilots -- in fact the Navy had at one point (for several years) more planes than the Air Force. Shittier planes, but planes.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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Navy and Marines both have their own pilots -- in fact the Navy had at one point (for several years) more planes than the Air Force. Shittier planes, but planes.

@mdk

Hand-me downs from the stuff the Airforce got bored with using?

[mdk]

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Hand-me downs from the stuff the Airforce got bored with using?

@Dinh AaronMk

basically it's like..... the F-18 and the F-16 both come out around the same time. Air Force looks at them both and says, "We love this F-16, and we think the Hornet is a piece of shit, and it doesn't perform, and we hate it, and it can go to hell." And the Navy said "Well I guess we'll take 1000 of those then."

Mostly the thing of it is, Navy's air fleet is falling apart from old age and ocean air and all the gay Navy buttsex and whatnot.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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basically it's like..... the F-18 and the F-16 both come out around the same time. Air Force looks at them both and says, "We love this F-16, and we think the Hornet is a piece of shit, and it doesn't perform, and we hate it, and it can go to hell." And the Navy said "Well I guess we'll take 1000 of those then."

Mostly the thing of it is, Navy's air fleet is falling apart from old age and ocean air and all the gay Navy buttsex and whatnot.

@mdk

Can't spell Navy without that.

[Vilageidiotx]

Gotta love the navy. Every story they tell about their days in the service make it sound like they just went on vacation.

[BrokenVeil]

Oh America. You'd think that people would like all the guns, hamburgers and freedom. But being a dirty foreigner lets have blissful ignorance of such things.

[TheMusketMan]

AMERICA IS THE BEST AND THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS THERE BECAUSE FREEEEDOOOOMMMM. Happy now?

Your country has so many fucking problems it's actually hilarious. It's no wonder people are pissed off and sick to death of the bullshit. Let them complain. Maybe something will actually get achieved that way, instead of serious issues being dismissed because you can't bear to have your precious patriotism challenged.

@Halo

I know this country has a lot of problems, but saying ignorant shit about the soldiers who give life and limb so that they can be dumb assess pisses me off.

[Vilageidiotx]

Que sera sera

[scribz]

AMERICA IS THE BEST AND THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS THERE BECAUSE FREEEEDOOOOMMMM. Happy now?

Your country has so many fucking problems it's actually hilarious. It's no wonder people are pissed off and sick to death of the bullshit. Let them complain. Maybe something will actually get achieved that way, instead of serious issues being dismissed because you can't bear to have your precious patriotism challenged.

@Halo

You've not become a very happy person these past years, have you?

[Halo]

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You've not become a very happy person these past years, have you?

@scribz

I'm amazed by your powers of deduction. Reading me like a book from one post on a forum - well, golly-gee that's impressive! Now can we please skip over the usual pseudointellectual, patronising and self-righteous bullshit you come out with every time you turn up so that I can dedicate 100% of my attention to being as salty as possible? It's a hobby of mine.

[Halo]

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I know this country has a lot of problems, but saying ignorant shit about the soldiers who give life and limb so that they can be dumb assess pisses me off.

@TheMusketMan

Yeah, being naive and ignorant about the armed forces isn't any better than being so about everything else. It takes bravery (or stupidity) and discipline, sure, but not every soldier is a hero or deserves your respect. They're just people. There are good ones and bad ones. The sexual abuse and rape rates on military bases is disgustingly high, as a prime example of the sorts of people you would automatically have a knee-jerk response of nigh-on worship to. Judge the man, not the profession - soldiers aren't special just for being soldiers. It's the bravery and selflessness of specific individuals within the armed forces that make those individuals special and worth your respect, but that's true of people outside the military too, no? So don't defend soldiers as a profession more than you would any other profession. Respect individuals for what they do, not what job they have, and only defend those which are accused baselessly.

There are massive problems with the actions and behaviour of the armed forces as an institution and of some individuals who are members of that institution, and they deserve and need criticism if those problems are going to be fixed. Blindly defending either the institution or those problem-individuals just because they're military is stupid and unethical. If accusations are levied baselessly, unfairly or wrongly at a person, then you should defend them. But otherwise, your reaction ("But theyre soldiers giving life and limb, and so criticising them is just WRONG *sheds a patriotic tear*!!!") just gives the shitty ones a free pass to do whatever the fuck they want, because they're untouchable. Seriously, think this shit through.

[scribz]

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I'm amazed by your powers of deduction. Reading me like a book from one post on a forum - well, golly-gee that's impressive! Now can we please skip over the usual pseudointellectual, patronising and self-righteous bullshit you come out with every time you turn up so that I can dedicate 100% of my attention to being as salty as possible? It's a hobby of mine.

@Halo

I'm sure you're not bitter at all.

[Halo]

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I'm sure you're not bitter at all.

@scribz

Just tired of pretending to care when you try to psychoanalyse me. Decided to head it off pre-emptively. I'm actually pretty damn happy with my life. Going to one of the best universities in the world, lots of friends I trust and respect both home and away, getting along better than ever with my family, and got a few hobbies. But that's boring and normal, and it's been scientifically proven that it's impossible for your sort of BS psychoanalysis to conclude that someone is okay and normal rather than riddled with neuroses, bitterness and misery. Every time you turn up you come out with some pretentious life advice and insist that I'm a miserable wreck of a human being, and I just don't particularly feel like listening to it once again.