war crimes and abusing recruits are now ok in the military

[moonshinegnomie]

Hegseth: We're empowering drill sergeants to instill healthy fear in new recruits ensuring future war fighters are forged. Yes, they can shark attack and toss bunks, swear and yes they can put their hands on recruits


Hegseth: We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement, untie hands of war fighters… No more politically correct rules of engagement

[haele]

1. Rules of Engagement are there to protect US soldiers.

Basically, he's saying it's okay to engage in genocide - no mercy. Which means there is no constraint for "the enemy" to show any mercy to any of ours who are unlucky enough not to be slaughtered if caught.
Our soldiers can be expected to be treated like Blackwater mercenaries in Fallujah because of his drunken adolescent attitude.
But then again, this administration believes the "war fighter" is a sucker or loser if captured or injured in "battle".

[Redleg]

8. Excellent point

Hegseth sounds just like one of these MAGA fuck-nuts who never served but who thinks the military is full of p*ssies and we need to remove all restraints in order for them to win. Same bullshit talks about the new NFL rules to improve player safety. These "manly men" think they know what is best.

[TommyT139]

2. Are other countries still sending military to train here?

[genxlib]

3. "YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

Someone needs to watch a Few Good Men again.

[Reader Rabbit]

4. What is this "war fighters" crap?

He's always spouting that phrase. He sounds like a little kid playing with toy soldiers: "These are my WAR FIGHTERS!"

[Rebl2]

5. They

already have trouble recruiting people. What has been said in the speech certainly isn’t going to help recruitment.

[Renew Deal]

6. More war crimes for the peace president

[Ping Tung]

7. The DIs didn't refrain from using their hands (fists) when I was in boot camp.

They overstepped when they beat up one guy with rifle butts and became "gone" after the investigation for brutality. as our DIs,

MCRD San Diego 1961as our DIs,

[Redleg]

9. Tough times

Our drill sergeants at Ft. Knox in 1985 were mean and abusive, but they didn't hit any of us. They did cause pain and misery in the way they punished us with "remedial" physical training when we pissed them off. I remember one recruit passing out from having to vigorously run in place and then drop to his back to do sit-ups and then get back up to run in place and then drop again to do pushups over and over again for a good ten minutes. He finally keeled over and the drill sergeants dragged him into their office and shut the door. When the recruit emerged 20 minutes later his eyes had the look of a dead fish's eyes.

The drill sergeants certainly had creative ways to physically punish us and while I can chuckle at it now, at the time it was pretty intense.

[Ping Tung]

12. We had a mile run every morning just before dawn. Some guy from another platoon passed out while running.

Our DI joined their DI in kicking him. They go no response from him. It turned out he'd had a heart attack.
They took him away on a stretcher and we never knew if he lived or not.

Yeah. They were creative in PT punishment. I got called into their hut once for some trifling sin like failing to say "Sir" loud enough. They didn't hit me that time but had me "assume the Chinese sitting position". I had to put my back against the wall and slide down until it was knee level and hold my self up against the wall with my thighs. Within 3 minutes I was pouring sweat from the pain. They had a good laugh and set me loose.

At some point, early in boot, I realized that I had made the greatest mistake of my life when I signed up and muttered the oath.

[Redleg]

13. I remember thinking that the first week. "What am I doing here?"

By the time basic training was finished, I felt like a new and better person and I actually appreciated the work the drill sergeants did.

[lame54]

11. Then, they covered up a crime...

Now, it's not longer a crime

[lame54]

10. No more Geneva Convention...

Because KegsBreath says so