After getting blown up, soldiers had to use their personal cell phones to literally Google local hospitals to take the casualties to. The person responsible for the mass casualty plan - was sent to Jordan and didn't brief anyone on the plan.
It was clear from the beginning that the US did not have sufficient resources in place when the war started. As more stories come out, the magnitude to which we were unprepared will become more clear.
Starve Ukraine of Patriot missiles, make illegal side deals to sell Ukrainian lives and land for oil revenue, venerate Putin with a portrait in the Oval Office, then lie about their impact on gas prices. There is no moral bottom with Donald Trump.
one of the big problems in politics is that accurately describing Republican politics sounds insane
"they're suing doctors for preventing childhood disease" makes you sound like a raving lunatic, but it's literally just mainstream GOP policy
@nikicaga because of Pseudo Folliculitis Barbae, this white supremacist shitlord is using "no beardos" mostly as a way to force black men to choose between suffering or getting kicked out.
One of the most lethal warfighters of WWII was a US Navy Lieutenant Commander that wore a bathrobe and slippers with his service khakis, rarely bathed, and worked days at a time with no sleep in the basement of the 14th Naval District Administration Building at Pearl Harbor.
Lieutenant Commander Joseph Rochefort was a Japanese linguist and cryptanalyst that was instrumental in breaking Japanese codes and he, along with then-Lieutenant Commander Edwin Layton, worked day and night to convince military leadership that the next Japanese attack in the Pacific would be at Midway. They were accurate down to the day, hour, and precise location.
Because of it, the US was able to win its first naval battle of the war six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor despite being at a considerable numerical disadvantage. The Navy sunk four Japanese carriers, killing over 3,000 Japanese sailors and aviators, most of them with extensive combat experience. It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
For Lieutenant Commander Rochefort's effort, he was denied the Navy Distinguished Service Medal because the Chief of Naval Operations Ernest King thought he was an "unmilitary-looking" weirdo. Despite the objections of Admiral Nimitz. Admiral King's vendetta against the weirdo in the basement of the Naval District Administration Building nearly prevented the US from acting on the intelligence that turned the tide of the war.
Lieutenant Commander Rochefort died in 1976, having never been recognized for his effort. He was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1986.
Not that I would expect Secretary Hegseth to know a single thing about his nation's military history and how wars are actually won since he is too illiterate to know that it was six months, not "a number of years" before the US had its first major victory in the Pacific.
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