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palipunk · 6 months

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I want to know what universe some of you are living in

#this is the same ‘nobody hates the us military more than veterans’ shit with a different font #like I guarantee you Palestinians hate the Israeli gov more than the people who have benefited off our oppression #just saying #palestine

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dronescapesvideos · 3 months

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U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B Phantom II of Fighter Squadron VF-111 Sundowners drops 227 kg Mk 82 bombs over Vietnam, 1971 ➤➤ HOOT GIBSON VIDEO: https://youtu.be/esJjwizqgk4

#youtube #aircraft #airplane #aviation #dronescapes #military #documentary #aviation history #vietnam veteran #vietnam #f 4 #f 4 phantom #mc donnell #us army #us armed forces #vietnam war

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gwydionmisha · 7 months

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#Pentagon #LGBTQIA+ Veterans #Honorable Discharges #Dishonorable Discharges #News #US Military

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military1st · 7 months

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The U.S. Army Soldiers during Operation Iron Eagle IV, in Zhegoc, Kosovo.

The U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Thomas Duval, Multinational Battle Group-East Public Affairs (2016).

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tygerland · 5 months

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Restrepo (2010; documentary by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington.)

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usarmytrooper · 9 months

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Enlarged by 2.5x and enhanced image for clarity.

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nickysfacts · 1 year

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Albert was dunking on Confederates and challenging Gender norms before it was cool!🇺🇸

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she-wolf09231982 · 25 days

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A War Miniseries of Their Own

Help set a timeless example that serving with pride is also a woman's prerogative in every branch of the military. Sign the petition link attached to support A War Miniseries of Their Own!

Just signatures! Not asking for any money!

This is my own personal petition I’m pushing for. I’m a veteran who is looking to do the HBO War series justice by retelling the story of the military women in America’s history. Who better to play the part than a veteran who’s already been through the training? Please support your fellow Tumblr girl and sign 💚🪖🫡

(Just imagine the fanfics you could write if this takes off!) 😉

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padawan-historian · 4 months

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🗣 Don't just support veterans, LISTEN to them.

#listen to veterans #our world #let gaza free you #free palestine #free us all #ceasefire #military industrial complex #Israel is a military factory #israel is an apartheid state

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lealoha731 · 5 months

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I prefer this version of the uniform 🫡🇺🇸😈

#asian #army #veterans #military #military uniform #hot asian babe #asian chick #asian goddess #asianwomen #asian american #use my pussy #mommy k!nk #wet ass pussy #asian perfection #asian persuasion

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montyjeffrey · 1 year

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Allen R. Schindler Jr. was a 22-year-old American Radioman Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy who was murdered 30 years ago today on Navy Day while on shore leave in Sasebo, Japan, by his fellow shipmates, who were provoked only by the knowledge of his homosexuality.

Allen R. Schindler Jr. was born on December 13, 1969, in Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois, to Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen and Allen Schindler Sr. Allen was the third of four children, and his family was three generations Navy. His grandfather served in WWII and his stepfather in Vietnam; following in their footsteps, Allen enlisted while still in junior high at Bloom High School. After graduation, he shipped out and left Chicago Heights for the first time to serve his country.

Allen was in the Navy for four years. He served on the USS San Jose, the USS Midway, and was serving on the USS Belleau Wood at the time of his death. The USS Midway was Allen’s dream assignment. He described the 11 months he spent on the aircraft carrier as his happiest days in the Navy. The Midway was a relatively tolerant ship where Allen didn’t feel the need to hide being gay.

On the Midway, he saw action in Operation Desert Storm and received a patch for his involvement in the campaign. Allen even extended his four-year tour so he could ride the last voyage of Midway before its decommission and got his own memento — a tattoo of Midway on his arm.

In December 1991, Allen was transferred to the USS Belleau Wood, and the harassment began almost immediately. According to reports, the Belleau Wood gained a reputation for being "the worst ship of all" when it came to homophobia and violence, where there was open hostility towards gay shipmates amongst the 950-plus crew. Newcomers Terry M. Helvey and Charles E. Vins were part of a group on board the ship that routinely harassed shipmates suspected of being gay. Helvey threatened gay shipmates that if they didn’t get out of the military soon, he and his gang were going to personally do something about it, and he continued to harass Allen whenever he could. Allen’s shipmate and friend, Keith Sims, reported Helvey and Vins to the ship’s legal officer, Captain Bernard Meyer, but nothing was done. Instead, Meyer probed into Sims’ sex life. When shipmate Richard Eastman reported being attacked the night before Allen was killed, Meyer took no action to stop the harassment and also probed into his sex life.

Allen was punched, pushed against walls, and repeatedly called homophobic slurs. He told his uncle that sailors had attacked him. Homophobic notes and graffiti were left on his bunk. Sims said they would deliberately spill hot soup on him. When Allen complained to his superiors in March and April of 1992 that his locker was vandalized and he had received multiple death threats, little was done in response. Instead, Douglas J. Bradt, the Belleau Wood Captain, ordered him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, despite Allen not being an alcoholic.

Allen’s complaints continued to go unanswered. By September, he had reached his breaking point and requested to see the captain, but his request was denied. While operating the radio, Allen transmitted an unauthorized statement, "2-Q-T-2-B-S-T-R-8," which read: "Too Cute To Be Straight." The message was heard by much of the Pacific Fleet. Allen described the defiant message in his journal as his way of letting out his "true colors."

On September 24, Allen went to see the Belleau Wood Executive Officer, where he formally declared he was gay and requested an administrative discharge and transfer. Allen told the XO, "If you can’t be yourself, then who are you?" The XO agreed but told Allen he still had to take what was coming to him. Allen also informed Captain Bradt and Captain Meyer. He was told the processing of his discharge would take two weeks, but his superiors insisted he remain on the ship until then. Although Allen knew his safety was at risk, he obeyed orders.

On September 25, Allen was called to appear at a captain’s mast to deal with his unauthorized radio message. He had requested that the hearing be closed for confidentiality, but Captain Bradt disregarded his request and opened the mast to 200–300 crewmen in attendance. Allen made no admission of his homosexuality at the mast. Some shipmates took it as an invitation to harass him with impunity. Allen’s rank was reduced from RM1 to RM3, and he was punished with a 30 day restriction to the ship.

As word of his sexual orientation spread quickly throughout the Belleau Wood, Allen’s friends began to avoid him. Allen confided in his ex-boyfriend, Navy veteran Jim Jennings, how increasingly difficult it was becoming for him to avoid confrontation. On October 2, he wrote in his journal: "More people are finding out about me. lt scares me a little. You never know who would want to injure or cease my existence."

Straight sailors who knew Allen and were concerned for his welfare introduced him to a trio of gay entertainers working near Sasebo; one of the entertainers, Eric Underwood, said Allen told him "people harassed him 24 hours a day" and that he had such a hard time going back to that environment that he had to coax him to the door. When the Belleau Wood was getting ready to leave Sasebo, Allen was reluctant to leave Eric’s room and was trying to stretch out the goodbyes. The next night, he was dead. Entertainer Valan Cain had gone to the public restroom where Allen was slain and found blood all over the walls and inside the urinals. By the next day, someone had left a bouquet of flowers on the floor. "You could see blood streaks almost to the top of the roof," Cain said. Many servicemen interviewed afterward expressed revulsion at the attack. One serviceman remarked, "Whoever did that should hang."

On the morning of October 27, 1992, Allen called his mother and told her he was coming home for Christmas. It would be the last time he would ever speak to her again. Just before midnight, Allen’s mutilated, disfigured body was found sprawled out on a public restroom floor.

Terry M. Helvey and Charles E. Vins stalked and followed Allen into the public restroom, where they ambushed him, then savagely, sadistically, and brutally beat and stomped him to death until he was unrecognizable. His mother could only identify him by the tattoo of Midway on his arm. Every organ in Allen’s body was destroyed. His face and head were caved in, and he had shoe prints imbedded into his face and chest. The pathologist who performed the autopsy on Allen said it was the worst case he’d ever seen in his whole career, even worse than a case of a man trampled to death by a horse, and compared the damage done to Allen’s body to that of a high-speed car crash or a low-speed airplane accident.

Captain Bradt, who tried to keep the murder quiet and had threatened Allen’s shipmates, was sent to shore leave in Florida. For testifying against Helvey, Vins was given a four-month sentence, of which he only served 78 days. Helvey was given a life sentence, but since 2002, he has been eligible for parole. He was denied parole on March 7, 2022.

Allen Schindler’s case became synonymous with the debate concerning LGB members of the military that had been brewing in the United States, culminating in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Allen’s mother, Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen, after learning the truth about her son’s death and the Navy’s subsequent coverup, became one of the most outspoken and sought-after advocates for gay rights to serve openly in the military. In 2011, the DADT policy was repealed, allowing LGB servicemen and women to serve openly in the military for the first time.

Allen Schindler loved the Navy and was a proud sailor who volunteered to fight for his country — to lay down his life if he had to. He didn’t sign up to die to advance gay rights, but that is ultimately what happened. It was brave of him to come out when he did in the environment that he did, and he died because of it. He was a hero.

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uncanny-tranny · 7 months

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The hyper-veneration and almost fetishization of the USA's troops have honestly given rise for some of the worst types of people who want power without effort, I think.

It's why you see some entitled asshole troop who think they can do whatever to civilians because we "owe" them for them "putting their lives on the line" or the type of person who thinks they personally will stick it to a random Afghan civilian for what "their people" did on 9/11 (a racist institution fostering racism? Colour me shocked (sarcasm)).

As a US citizen, I'm personally really concerned with this attitude we have toward troops. As somebody who hates the institution of the military, I also hate that it fosters a genuinely toxic mindset - it's much like the mindset that is instilled in cops; however, when you are overseas, the people you harm are not typically US civilians, so people can sweep under the rug the injustice of terrorizing civilians who aren't "like us."

#politics #had somebody go 'do you know i am a VETERAN?!?!?!?!' to justify why he was being a complete knobhead...#...chances are he hasn't stepped foot on a military base sure but... it wouldn't shock me if he WERE in the military...#...like my dad was enlisted in the aftermath of 9/11 and the amount of meatheads who ranted and raved about 'getting back'...#...like they were batman going after the joker was EMBARRASSING. you aren't a comic book hero ffs...#...and honestly that's what broke the illusion of the troops being like... uniquely special...#...and the military thrives off of this illusion because it is its shield. the more we venerate this idea of the American Hero...#...the more justification it has to continue existing as it does.#gd bless the people victimized by the US military complex. the people suffering the most from US occupation #being a military kid really made me hate the military industial complex at an early age lol #fuck the military

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mysharona1987 · 2 years

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#Veterans #ted cruz #us military #military #democrats #republicans #politics #news #iraq

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ifelllikeastar · 6 months

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George Strait served in the U.S. Army from 1971-75. He was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii and attained the rank of Corporal. He is a big supporter of military veterans and their families, as evidenced by his very own actions.

#george strait #love #music legend #military #us army #country music #veteran

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military1st · 17 days

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Dark Places.

A U.S. Marine aboard Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay.

The U.S. Marine Corps photo illustration by Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson (2016).

#army #military #us army #us military #armed forces #marines #us marines #military life #army strong #troops #veteran #soldier #marine #military 1st

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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The House of Representatives passed a bill to establish an Office of Food Security at the Department of Veterans Affairs, with 49 Republicans voting against the proposal.

The Food Security for All Veterans Act was passed by a 376-49 vote, sending the bill to the Senate for approval.

The legislation, introduced by Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, aims to establish a department to assist veterans facing food insecurity and lack of nutrition, such as providing them with information about food stamps and other programs.

Speaking on the House floor to advocate for what was her fist bill, Peltola said Alaska's high veteran population motivated her to push for the introduction of the department.

"There is nothing more important than ensuring our veterans and their families can enjoy a safe and healthy life after their service to our country," Peltola said.

The bill received overwhelming bipartisan support, with 49 Republicans being the only lawmakers who voted against the introduction of an Office of Food Security at the Department of Veterans Affairs, some of whom are military veterans themselves.

FULL LIST OF REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED AGAINST OFFICE OF FOOD SECURITY FOR VETERANS

Rick Allen, GA

Jodey Arrington, TX

Jim Baird, IN

Dan Bishop, NC

Mo Brooks, AL

Ken Buck, CO

Tim Burchett, TN

Michael Cloud, TX

Andrew Clyde, GA

James Comer, KY

Dan Crenshaw, TX

Jeff Duncan, SC

Jake Ellzey, TX

Pat Fallon, TX

Drew Ferguson, GA

Scott Franklin, FL

Matt Gaetz, FL

Louie Gohmert, TX

Bob Good, VA

Lance Gooden, TX

Paul Gosar, AZ

Mark Green, TN

Marjorie Taylor Greene, GA

Morgan Griffith, VA

Glen Grothman, WI

Andy Harris, MD

Diana Harshbarger, TN

Kevin Hern, OK

Jody Hice, GA

Ronny Jackson, TX

Jim Jordan, OH

John Joyce, PA

Debbie Lesko, AZ

Barry Loudermilk, GA

Thomas Massie, KY

Mary Miller, IL

Barry Moore, AL

Ralph Norman, SC

Steven Palazzo, MS

Scott Perry, PA

Bill Posey, FL

Matt Rosendale, MT

Chip Roy, TX

Steve Scalise, LA

Greg Steube, FL

Van Taylor, TX

Tom Tiffany, WI

Daniel Webster, FL

Newsweek has contacted several GOP lawmakers who voted against the bill for comment.

#us politics #news #newsweek #2022 #Food Security for All Veterans Act #Department of Veterans Affairs #Office of Food Security #us house of representatives #Rep. Mary Peltola #Republicans #conservatives #gop #republican hypocrisy #veterans #veterans affairs #military veterans

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