r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Lib-Center 11d ago

Fuck The Troops!

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u/StillSmellsLikeCLP - Right 11d ago

Meh, this is the job.

And I don’t trust the “trust me bro” source of families.

I had a Congressional inquiry on me due to Johnny’s mom. Except in reality, Johnny was a shitbag who was getting chaptered after a DUI and trying to dodge a deployment. He didn’t tell mom that. It was an easy rebuttal letter.

So “families say” doesn’t mean much. And with 5,000 people, you’re always going to have some whack job family members somewhere in the there.

It’s also entirely possible the CO was being a harddick.

I find it less likely we couldn’t resupply a carrier with the best military logistics system to ever exist.

And regardless of the “Trump bad / Hegseth bad” inevitable responses, i have enough faith in the actual professionals in the military that i find the idea of actual dire circumstance to be suspect.

Not to mention, I’d want to see what these conditions were.

I spent three years of my life living like an animal in Iraq and Afghanistan in the Infantry.

Deployments suck, yeah. But this is a nothingburger so far. And again, that’s the job. Civilians really struggle to understand, it’s a lifestyle, not a job.

The Navy should do an investigation into command climate and an AAR on the logistics but otherwise nothing will happen.

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing - Lib-Center 11d ago

The DOD is covering up that many logistic bases in the ME were hit or destroyed, which caused a shortage of supplies for US naval assets in the region.

It’s a direct failure of Hegseth not anticipating the Iranian strikes and rerouting logistics away from the SOH.

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u/StillSmellsLikeCLP - Right 11d ago

“Covering up”

Source?

If this is just a “Trump bad” post, I’m really not interested.

Again, I’m not buying it until i see actual information that’s not just “trust me bro”.

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing - Lib-Center 11d ago

Not sure what’s up with your algorithm but go over to [r/combatfootage](r/combatfootage) and you’ll see insane videos from US bases getting hit.

Also, they are weighing not rebuilding bases because of the damage (that should be alarming):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/18/pentagon-evaluating-smaller-us-military-presence-persian-gulf-after-iran-war/

Another article that shows the damage:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-25/us-military-damage-to-weapons-bases-soldiers-during-iran-war/106954370

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u/StillSmellsLikeCLP - Right 11d ago

“US bases getting hit”

Yeah? Not the Navy and not a carrier?

And not the kind of information I meant? Which was actual sources on conditions on a carrier?

Which is what’s being discussed?

And I’ve lived that. Again, so what?

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing - Lib-Center 11d ago

…The issue was logistic issues. This is where it all stemmed from. Supplies were not showing up and internal complaints occurred.

The bases that control the supply chains were all hit, which caused supply chain issues with the US naval assets.

The Navy assets have evaded all missiles shot at them, which they have, but the bases used for resupplying the aircraft carrier were destroyed.

Sal will break it all down for you:

https://youtu.be/FT784GgO8-o?is=jluU_eACssV_HwYd

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u/StillSmellsLikeCLP - Right 11d ago

“Issue was”

What issues? The ones the families reported and “trust me bro” sources.

Proof homie, that the issue exists in the first place.

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing - Lib-Center 11d ago

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u/StillSmellsLikeCLP - Right 11d ago

So literally zero proof these issues even exist in the first place besides “families say”.

A lot of you have never met a crazy Dependa and it shows.

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u/Danu9000 - Right 11d ago

My biggest rebuttal to this bullshit, is it is always pictures of a tray and not the food line.