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jawiggins 6 hours ago [-]
Often when seeing stories like this, there's some implication that the training is due to a planned operation or coming scenario. Yet my employer will regularly make me do trainings for all kinds of things that I know we don't plan to do, from system compromise to fire drills. Yet I've never seen a news story reporting that, for instance, a US bank is drilling for a systems breach that compromises customer accounts, even though I'm sure they do it. It's funny that there are some things we may fret about in the news yet in our personal lives we know them to not be a big deal.
bragr 6 hours ago [-]
Indeed, the army reserve center down the road has a Mortuary Affairs company. This kind of thing is what they are responsible for.
tryauuum 5 hours ago [-]
Sometimes it is eerie. I remember in 2021 there was a new standard for creating mass graves published, to come into full power on 2022-02-01.
people train all the time fot desert, jungle and arctic warfare, nuclear threats, all sorts of stuff. its 'to be prepared for anything', hoping it never has to be really applied.
Oh no, the military is training to be a military. What is this Jade Helm 2.0?
eqmvii 6 hours ago [-]
Everyone on social media seems to be HUNTING for signs that the powers that be are prepping for the end of the world.
beedeebeedee 6 hours ago [-]
You seem to be overlooking the fact that Hegseth and other leaders in the US military and government have said that this is the end times or “armageddon”
You mean besides the one that the electorate dug for it in 2024?
Teever 6 hours ago [-]
Should a large scale conflict between the United States and another power break out, and one that is particularly bloody and challenging for American forces to win it will be interesting to see how the American military and media/tech companies deal with the flow of graphic footage from the battlefront.
I've heard it said that the broadcasting of graphic battle footage on the nightly news during the Vietnam war played a large role in the public losing support for that conflict and that the US government learned from this and provided a much more sanitary and managed view of the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and again Iraq during the 1990s and 2000s.
From what I've seen on subreddits like /r/combatfootage/ or /r/credibledefense/ that doesn't seem to be possible anymore. There's a tremendous amount of video from the conflicts in Syria, Sudan, and Ukraine and the administrators and moderators of these places seem to allow the distribution and discussion of these videos.
Right now it's pretty common to see Ukrainian and their supporters refer to Russians as "orcs" (I'm assuming Russians say similar things about the Ukrainians on social media too) with little to no push back from admins or moderators despite this being blatantly dehumanizing language which is often against the rules in these online forums.
I predict that moderators will expose further biases and double standards towards Americans should graphic videos of American soldiers dying becomes a standard feature of our social media landscape and will punish people for this kind of disparaging commentary about invading American soldiers.
https://meduza.io/news/2021/12/21/v-mchs-razrabotali-standar...
people train all the time fot desert, jungle and arctic warfare, nuclear threats, all sorts of stuff. its 'to be prepared for anything', hoping it never has to be really applied.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/06/lawmakers-wan...
(There are more instances, which you can find searching)
I've heard it said that the broadcasting of graphic battle footage on the nightly news during the Vietnam war played a large role in the public losing support for that conflict and that the US government learned from this and provided a much more sanitary and managed view of the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and again Iraq during the 1990s and 2000s.
From what I've seen on subreddits like /r/combatfootage/ or /r/credibledefense/ that doesn't seem to be possible anymore. There's a tremendous amount of video from the conflicts in Syria, Sudan, and Ukraine and the administrators and moderators of these places seem to allow the distribution and discussion of these videos.
Right now it's pretty common to see Ukrainian and their supporters refer to Russians as "orcs" (I'm assuming Russians say similar things about the Ukrainians on social media too) with little to no push back from admins or moderators despite this being blatantly dehumanizing language which is often against the rules in these online forums.
I predict that moderators will expose further biases and double standards towards Americans should graphic videos of American soldiers dying becomes a standard feature of our social media landscape and will punish people for this kind of disparaging commentary about invading American soldiers.