Nothing screams "supporting the troops" louder than reducing the quality and availability of medical care when they are sick or injured.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Seriously, normally we at least wait until they're veterans
Lol no we don't, being injured while in service gets you a "suck it up or you're malingering"
800mg ibuprofen if you're really really sick though.
"Marine candy"
Suckers and losers gonna suck and lose.
Is this the same army that just got their budget DOUBLED when the orange took office? Or am I missing something here?
Incomprehensible amounts of corruption in the military industrial complex
Considering the US military is quite literally the highest funded in the world by a league of its own, you know you've fucked up somewhere when that still isn't enough money.
Maybe its a good economic strategy to not get into pointless wars to distract from the very top brass being a "friend of Epstein"
It's a US tradition not to have healthcare coverage.
How is it possible we can spend as much as we do, trillions, and our soldiers aren’t taken well care of?
This alone is enough to make one want to revolt, I don’t mind if my tax dollars go to the military if the military service people are given what they rightfully deserve. The shortchanging is downright offensive.
The money goes to contractors
How is it possible we can spend as much as we do, trillions, and our soldiers aren’t taken well care of?
The trick is that a lot of the so called military spending is only officially military releated. In reality it's support for the industry to keep contracts running that make no sense and are far from economically viable.
So like the interest on the national debt, we just have to keep paying?
This country has gotten really weak at figuring out how to question government spending constructively.
The US got lazy because the leading role of the dollar in global finances actually made it so much easier for them than for anyone else to run on debt without actually paying that much.
Could they still have spend the money more efficiently? Sure, but some waste in a system that naturally ran better than anyone elses public finances wasn't much of a problem.
The US keeping up current foreign policies and making former long-term allies divest from the US and from the dollar as the de facto global currency is what weakens the US at an incredible pace.
.... So what you're saying is that you got half a trillion.dollars extra this time and somehow there is no money?
Are you sure you aren't copying the Russian armed forces? Should we start checking the armor of Abraham tanks to ensure the armor hasn't been replaced by cardboard?
Fuck the rich
Jest in time for memorial day!
Make sure to remember that!
Hegseth probably has a yacht and private jet now or some such bullshit. Meanwhile. This.
Just trump showing his love of the military. "Come home whole or don't come home who cares" trump probably.
It’s always strange seeing governments talk nonstop about “readiness” while quietly cutting the kinds of things that actually matter once people start getting injured.
A dead soldier is cheaper than a wounded soldier. They are gearing up for the next major kill-off since COVID didn't work as planned.
Oh boy I can't wait to bleed to death for some pedo
This channel should change the name to "US news in English". If you send something in other language it's deleted.
There's an easy fix.