US armed forces are trained and readied to face violence anywhere in the world, but alarm is growing as enlisted personnel are falling victim to violence in ...

It’s so bizarre when you find out these military bases are entire small towns with chains of restaurants, high speed roads, and everything short of a suburb.

Also, my favorite part of this video and much of the early COVID days were how clowns were wearing their masks outside where there’s nobody around, then take them off when they’re in a tiny enclosed space, interviewing their subjects at a spit’s length from each other.

Also, the soldiers deserve it. If I knew that my baby killing job would also include being systemically murdered, SA’d, and my complaints tossed out the window, I would simply get another job that doesn’t involve killing babies. trump-who-must-go Suckers and losers getting abused for a Camaro lease

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      i think that woman (Specialist Vanessa Guillen) who was murdered at Ft. Hood in 2020 was taken apart before being buried. that story went wide due to activism from her family and community keeping it in the news and like a dozen officers were “punished”/found culpable. and that’s the story that was made palatable for the public.

      i used to pay closer attention to military stuff when i was younger, because i worked alongside guys that got out. not like infantry guys, but like 4-and-out types who turned wrenches, loaded planes, and fixed computers. from 3 different guys in 3 different branches who did not know each other, to a person, they all said large bases and postings (like aircraft carriers) were nightmares and dreadful places to be posted. like a cross between a self-contained dystopian city and a straight up prison. organized crime syndicates that “everybody” knows about operating with impunity, places on base or on ship that are unsafe to go (because you’ll be beaten up and robbed or worse).

      the army guys said Ft. Hood–the most populated US military base on the planet–was fucked. none of the insane stories that came out of that place ever surprised them. that murder in 2020 is the tip of the iceberg. technically, it’s “Fort Cavazos” now because it was renamed from “Hood” in 2023 due to that being a confederate officer’s name. absolutely also to probably try and get the stink of being such an infamous shithole off it. anyway i remember in the 2010s some prostitution ring was broken up that was set up and run by a guy that organized sexual harassment training on base. not to mention the occasional story of murder that would have something gripping enough about it to make the news.

    • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      Okay… its not “lots” of beheadings, just a few.

      I think it was Fort Bragg (pretty sure its Bragg) where both JSOC (the special special forces types) tend to be based and trained out of alongside regular airborne troops.

      On occasion somebody will find a headless body in the training areas.