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  • This is the Army National Guard, they are by design held to the same training duty standards as their active duty counterpart. If we were talking about the army reserves I could see your point, as they don’t have combat roles, but the National Guard does. There is no marine corp national guard, there is however a marine reserve, which is again a different thing still than the national guard.

    They have the same uniforms, the same service name tapes, use the same equipment, basic and advanced training, deploy to the same areas overseas to do the same jobs. They are also subject to UCMJ when in uniform. Can go even go active duty upon to request.

    It’s literally not that different













  • You’re just wrong, but that’s alright.

    9/11 is really where the modern world was birthed in terms of American politics.

    Sure it’s been terrible in the past, but it hasn’t always been this terrible and for about 30 years or so it has been restrained (Rodney king protests). It went Cold War during this time and most adults 40 and below have known relative peace in the U.S. in conjunction with government sanctioned violence towards our own people.

    Don’t twist these ideas with a flawed concept of we “always have done it this way ” as if human society hasn’t progressed whatsoever. With this outlook we would have been living in caves and fields all the way up to now. It’s like oppressive defeatism, and it’s just utterly pointless.

    Just because things have been one way doesn’t mean it can’t be changed.

    The world is not binary and we can always push forward for positive changes.



  • Kalothar@lemmy.catoFediverse1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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    I’m checking in with voyager here, and I came from the reddit Apollo app and I feel the same.

    It was practically seamless, though I’ve considered switching to try out other clients.

    Tried Piefed and find it clunky with my current level of familiarity