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  • Lol land nav can be tough. One time in AIT we had to use a PLGR to find points on base around the class. Problem is they moved the class to the other side of the base and forgot to move the points. So after a while when nobody had returned, they went looking for us. Hours and hours later we returned to a bunch of angry drill sergeants and when we explained where we went, the guy doing the class figured out what happened, and apologized. The DS’s felt bad and we got to eat at the officers DFAC because the plebs DFAC was closed.

    But yeah being in the army, you had to have a certain level of openness. It definitely takes a certain kind of person. And that person isn’t generally a normie.


  • And people also need to tempur their expectations. OP isn’t taking down the administration, pretending they are is just blowing hot air up both your ass and theirs. It’s a disservice to them and anybody actually trying to move the needle. At MOST it could be a juicy tell-all that won’t get acted upon. Fleeing the country is quite excessive for that.

    Edit: practical advice; touch grass and come back to reality. We can fix most of the problems but we need to do so realistically.


  • Yeah, military wives are accurately portrayed as unfaithful, obviously I’m not saying all, but it’s very common. They are fairly often strippers or former strippers as well. There is an abundance of strip clubs around military bases. Prostitutes following armies during conflict is as old a story as both professions. Young people in their physical peak (both strippers and soldiers) being around others at their physical peak, it’s just nature, like sex at the Olympics.

    Also… People that join the army have no shame. Not even sexual, but weird naked shit happened all the time. One guy came in while me and my roommate were playing guitar hero. Dude just had a towel on. Pulls it off and starts helicoptering while my guy was trying to play guitar hero. It kept getting weirder til we joked if he could helicopter and hit the strum thing while someone hit the buttons. It didn’t work so he tried using his hand to move his dick to strum it. Better, but still failed. So you just get normalized to weird naked stuff, sexual or not. Then there’s the guys that know the stereotype, and are comfortable, and just have a buddy “look after” their wife while deployed. For the stereotype of the military being tough straight edge men, there’s a lot of liberal sexual practices. Hell, me and my roommate in Iraq shared pics of our gfs.

    The air force is just… Different. They’re considered “the dorky” branch. They do get better food, better housing, and average higher test scores. It makes sense you’d get a nerdier group. That doesn’t mean they’re less sexual. I dated an air force girl for a bit and despite her innocent, naive, nerdy outward nature, she was a sexually aggressive woman who knew what she wanted. The air force benefits from more women in their branch. But they’re still military.

    I never really met many navy people, so I can’t say much about them. I certainly never got close enough to find out personal things from them, let alone enough to get an idea of sexual preferences.



  • Realism isn’t condescension. I know every one of us daydreams about taking the system down, but fleeing the country and uprooting your life for something that doesn’t get noticed isn’t exactly a win other than getting out of the country. Without knowing exactly what the info is, it’s more harmful to encourage someone to do something drastic and feed into the daydream.








  • I don’t mean to offend, but you probably don’t have anything actionable or even surprising to anybody that’s been there. “The system is fucked!” Isn’t news to anybody. You’d have to have something with concrete proof that an individual or org has done something specific. And talking to individuals and getting their stories would be more worthy of a book than a whistle blower situation. Maybe you have that, I don’t know. But you need files, pictures, or something that proves that it was a known policy or intentional wrongdoing, or you’ll get nowhere. And odds are it’s too broad if you’re getting this from that many seperate pillars of authority.