Also recently: "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide" - 317 points by rbanffy 5 days ago - 563 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220339
Morale is so bad that people are trying to off themselves and they aren't even being shot at yet. I have low faith in the USN in the event of a Taiwan contingency. And I think the idea that they can force Iran to their knees with a blockade is looking sillier every day. Brutal.
I think that psychologically not knowing when it will end is extra difficult. When I served in Afghanistan I knew pretty well how long the deployment would be so my expectations were set. If they kept adding extra months I'd imagine you start to feel like Yossarian.
I haven't served in the military, but I have been onsite in awful places at someone else's schedule and whim.
Getting extended arbitrarily is horrible. The only thing worse is when they let someone else go home early, and force you to stay for no real reason. (Not even drawing straws or similar.) That genuinely broke me. Doing this to people is cruel, full stop.
(Fortunately, for as bad as it was for me, it did at least make it impossible to ignore my mental health, and was the beginning of a long, long road of treatment.)
Absolutely disgusting treatment under any circumstances, but even worse on what arguably was/is a mission of "spectacle" to distract from Epstein revelations, and an insanely miscalculated "walk in the park" one-day assault, like Putin tried.
And the two at the top (bottom) of this don't seem to care one iota.
Sure frame it as bad news. The real story is that Kennedy doesn't have to worry about precious American body fluids being compromised by foreign UHT milk. (I don't think you could have synergy like that before DOGE.)
Also recently: "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide" - 317 points by rbanffy 5 days ago - 563 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220339
Morale is so bad that people are trying to off themselves and they aren't even being shot at yet. I have low faith in the USN in the event of a Taiwan contingency. And I think the idea that they can force Iran to their knees with a blockade is looking sillier every day. Brutal.
Not to make light of it but deployments are hard!
I think that psychologically not knowing when it will end is extra difficult. When I served in Afghanistan I knew pretty well how long the deployment would be so my expectations were set. If they kept adding extra months I'd imagine you start to feel like Yossarian.
I haven't served in the military, but I have been onsite in awful places at someone else's schedule and whim.
Getting extended arbitrarily is horrible. The only thing worse is when they let someone else go home early, and force you to stay for no real reason. (Not even drawing straws or similar.) That genuinely broke me. Doing this to people is cruel, full stop.
(Fortunately, for as bad as it was for me, it did at least make it impossible to ignore my mental health, and was the beginning of a long, long road of treatment.)
Absolutely disgusting treatment under any circumstances, but even worse on what arguably was/is a mission of "spectacle" to distract from Epstein revelations, and an insanely miscalculated "walk in the park" one-day assault, like Putin tried.
And the two at the top (bottom) of this don't seem to care one iota.
A national disgrace.
50/50 whether they will get a shipment testosterone shots.
Sure frame it as bad news. The real story is that Kennedy doesn't have to worry about precious American body fluids being compromised by foreign UHT milk. (I don't think you could have synergy like that before DOGE.)