RonMexicosPitbull posted:

people here think bush is actually retarded but that dude flew fighter jets at an age where a sadly high % of people (if e/n and the new years resolution threads are any barometer) here are too mentally ill to get their driver's license.

etalian posted:

Also americans have child like wonder at believing media stories or a administration talking point

Tillman was a hero killed in a firefight since the actual facts tell a more depressing story.

RonMexicosPitbull posted:

I bet theyd just let you hop in day 1 if you told them you beat all the Ace Combats

Frostwerks posted:

tillman was a legit good dude who turned down a potentially lucrative career in the nfl after the post-911 patriot wave hit america like a tsunami and was quick to realize just how much he'd been had.

etalian posted:

His unit destroyed his body armor and also burned his personal journal to help cover up what really happened.

CountingCrows posted:

my favorite part of the "well made movie" was when they used the same sound effects from the battlefield 4 video game commercials. Dzzzzzt, dzzzzt.

Frostwerks posted:

tillman was a legit good dude who turned down a potentially lucrative career in the nfl after the post-911 patriot wave hit america like a tsunami and was quick to realize just how much he'd been had.

spacemang_spliff posted:

didn't he die as a result of friendly fire?

spacemang_spliff posted:

didn't he die as a result of friendly fire?

etalian posted:

Yeah and the government had a intensive cover-up campaign to claim he was heroically killed in combat.

RonMexicosPitbull posted:

people here think bush is actually retarded but that dude flew fighter jets at an age where a sadly high % of people (if e/n and the new years resolution threads are any barometer) here are too mentally ill to get their driver's license.

a creepy colon posted:

Wow, not a lot of supporting our troops goin on in this thread.. heh

etalian posted:

afkmacro posted:

So why are we impressed that this garbage idiot killed 300 sand jawas? Isn't that his loving job? A meaningless job at that. If you think about all the blood, effort and money spent on iraq and the state it's currently in couldn't you technically argue that this fucktard didn't do enough ? Maybe he should have stuck that 50 cal up his own rear end in 2003 and saved the world the trouble of having to hear about bradley cooper bulking up on roids for a movie.

Monkey Fracas posted:

I was reading this article (http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/) and it said a big part of the whole unassailable military-worship thing is the fact that not that many people are in the military compared to like WW2

like there just are not enough people around to spread tales of military incompetence and dumb things that happen in the armed services anymore or something and it has become this mysterious force nobody understands or questions

proof of concept posted:

the best answer you're going to get is the article linked in this post, which you should read because it's really good

ethanol posted:

whoa, that's pretty deep. makes me want to join up and kill some babies to get the real story out

quote:

Like Mooney, I also heard many of Kyle’s friends and associates tell this story. Details varied, but the ending was the same: Kyle drove away without being charged and, as Mooney put it in a related blog post, later received “e-mails from police officers all over the country, thanking him for ‘cleaning up the streets.’ ” Mooney never saw the security tape or found other corroborating evidence, such as police files or a coroner’s report for the dead carjackers. “Consider this story confirmed by the man himself,” he wrote in the blog post, in which he described Kyle as a “true American badass” and a “real-life action hero.”

There is cause to be skeptical. The counties of Erath, Somervell, and Johnson cover the stretch of highway where the incident supposedly happened. Tommy Bryant, the sheriff of Erath County, told me that he could “guar-an-drat-tee it didn’t happen here.” Greg Doyle, the sheriff of Somervell County, said that he had “never heard” the story, which he found “kinda shocking,” and added, “It did not occur here.” Bob Alford, the sheriff of Johnson County, told a local reporter, “If something like that happened here I would have heard of it, and I’m sure you all at the newspaper would have heard of it.” These denials do not automatically disprove the story, of course. And it’s true that certain operatives, from certain government offices and agencies, drive government-registered vehicles whose license plates prompt civilian authorities to contact a call center in the event of an accident or a traffic stop. But a SEAL with extensive experience in special-mission units told me that the notion of such a provision being in place for a former SEAL driving a private vehicle was “bullshit.”

ArmZ posted:

that nyer article is lol tx for posting

quote:

Kyle seemed to consider himself a cross between a lawman and an executioner. His platoon had spray-painted the image of the Punisher—a Marvel Comics character who wages “a one-man war upon crime”—on their flak jackets and helmets. Kyle made a point of ignoring the military dress code, cutting the sleeves off shirts and wearing baseball caps instead of a helmet. (“Ninety per cent of being cool is looking cool,” he wrote.)

Like many soldiers, Kyle was deeply religious and saw the Iraq War through that prism. He tattooed one of his arms with a red crusader’s cross, wanting “everyone to know I was a Christian.” When he learned that insurgents had placed a bounty on his head and had named him al-Shaitan Ramadi—the Devil of Ramadi—he felt “proud.” He “hated the drat savages” he was fighting. In his book, he recounts telling an Army colonel, “I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.”

ethanol posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

pengun101 posted:

jesus gently caress. they look like lovely bad guy mercs in a video game. the ones that get off shooting civies because "gently caress it" and think ROE is evil and inevitably beg and poo poo themselves when shot.

etalian posted:

For some reason sending over texans with crusader cross tattoos, who also hate muslims didn't work out to well for the USA.

etalian posted:

Jarhead is a good military film because it doesn't show the military in a positive light.

JethroMcB posted:

After it was over I walked out of the theater and saw them standing in the lobby, starring at the ground and not saying anything. It was kinda surreal.

ethanol posted:

It was the cuck scene